PUA - NimScan Execution

sigmaDRL-1.1from SigmaHQ/sigma

Detects usage of NimScan, a portscanner utility. In early 2025, adversaries were observed using this utility to scan for open ports on remote hosts in a compromised environment. This rule identifies the execution of NimScan based on the process image name and specific hash values associated with different versions of the tool.

quality100

fp risk—

forks0

ATT&CK techniques

T1046

rule sourcelocked

title: ████████████████████████
id: ████████-████-████-████-████████████
status: ██████████
description: ██████████████████████████████████████████
             ████████████████████████████████████████
author: ████████
tags:
  - attack.████
  - attack.████
logsource:
  product: ████████
  category: ████████████
detection:
  selection:
    Image|endswith: '████████████████'
    CommandLine|contains:
      - '████████████████████████'
      - '████████████████████████'
      - '██████████████████'
  condition: selection
level: ████████
falsepositives:
  - ████████████████████

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