Sigma rule: Add Potential Suspicious New Download Source To Winget

A detection rule from the SigmaHQ repository, shown as its author published it. Dataset version ref-b8af5ad7393d, updated 2023-12-04T00:00:00.000Z.

Rule

Title: Add Potential Suspicious New Download Source To Winget
Status: test
Level: medium
Author: Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
Date: 2023-04-17
Modified: 2023-12-04
File: rules/windows/process_creation/proc_creation_win_winget_add_susp_custom_source.yml
Commit: ccbb0369507f796db0b0ae6854c8a2be471b9d84

Detects usage of winget to add new potentially suspicious download sources

Log source

product: windows
category: process_creation

Detection

selection_img:
    - Image|endswith: '\winget.exe'
    - OriginalFileName: 'winget.exe'
selection_cli:
    CommandLine|contains|all:
        - 'source '
        - 'add '
selection_source_direct_ip:
    # This is a best effort. A better way to handle this is to limit it via whitelist. Check Group Policy for more details
    CommandLine|re: '://\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}'
condition: all of selection_*

False positives (as the rule lists them)

Unknown

MITRE ATT&CK ids this rule names

T1059

Related rules

References

Read on 2026-11-03T00:58:21.399Z under licence sigma-drl-1.1@d5f4c36a from https://github.com/SigmaHQ/sigma/blob/ccbb0369507f796db0b0ae6854c8a2be471b9d84/rules/windows/process_creation/proc_creation_win_winget_add_susp_custom_source.yml

Sources and licences

SigmaHQ
"Add Potential Suspicious New Download Source To Winget" by Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems) (SigmaHQ). Rule: https://github.com/SigmaHQ/sigma/blob/ccbb0369507f796db0b0ae6854c8a2be471b9d84/rules/windows/process_creation/proc_creation_win_winget_add_susp_custom_source.yml.
Licensed under the Detection Rule License (DRL) 1.1: https://github.com/SigmaHQ/Detection-Rule-License
Detection Rule License (DRL) 1.1

Cite this page

Dragons Eye Ransomware Tracker, "Sigma rule: Add Potential Suspicious New Download Source To Winget",
entity page, dataset version ref-b8af5ad7393d, updated 2023-12-04T00:00:00.000Z,
https://ransomware-tracker.com/detections/sigma/c15a46a0-07d4-4c87-b4b6-89207835a83b (accessed 2026-11-03).
Underlying source: SigmaHQ rule c15a46a0-07d4-4c87-b4b6-89207835a83b, commit ccbb0369507f796db0b0ae6854c8a2be471b9d84.

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