Remotely Hosted HTA File Executed Via Mshta.EXE

sigmaDRL-1.1from SigmaHQ/sigma

Detects execution of the "mshta" utility with an argument containing the "http" keyword, which could indicate that an attacker is executing a remotely hosted malicious hta file

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ATT&CK techniques

T1218.005

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

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