Sigma rule: HackTool - Bloodhound/Sharphound Execution

Rule

Title

HackTool - Bloodhound/Sharphound Execution

Status

test

Level

high

Author

Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)

Date

2019-12-20

Modified

2023-02-04

File

rules/windows/process_creation/proc_creation_win_hktl_bloodhound_sharphound.yml

Commit

ccbb0369507f796db0b0ae6854c8a2be471b9d84

Detects command line parameters used by Bloodhound and Sharphound hack tools

Log source

product

windows

category

process_creation

Detection

selection_img:
    - Product|contains: 'SharpHound'
    - Description|contains: 'SharpHound'
    - Company|contains:
          - 'SpecterOps'
          - 'evil corp'
    - Image|contains:
          - '\Bloodhound.exe'
          - '\SharpHound.exe'
selection_cli_1:
    CommandLine|contains:
        - ' -CollectionMethod All '
        - ' --CollectionMethods Session '
        - ' --Loop --Loopduration '
        - ' --PortScanTimeout '
        - '.exe -c All -d '
        - 'Invoke-Bloodhound'
        - 'Get-BloodHoundData'
selection_cli_2:
    CommandLine|contains|all:
        - ' -JsonFolder '
        - ' -ZipFileName '
selection_cli_3:
    CommandLine|contains|all:
        - ' DCOnly '
        - ' --NoSaveCache '
condition: 1 of selection_*

False positives (as the rule lists them)

• Other programs that use these command line option and accepts an 'All' parameter

Tags

• attack.discovery
• attack.t1087.001
• attack.t1087.002
• attack.t1482
• attack.t1069.001
• attack.t1069.002
• attack.execution
• attack.t1059.001

MITRE ATT&CK ids this rule names

• T1059.001
• T1069.001
• T1069.002
• T1087.001
• T1087.002
• T1482

References

• https://github.com/BloodHoundAD/BloodHound
• https://github.com/BloodHoundAD/SharpHound

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_hktl_bloodhound_sharphound.yml