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Suspicious Driver Loaded Path	Windows Service, Create or Modify System Process	Endpoint	2021-04-29	true		Windows Service Persistence Privilege Escalation Create or Modify System Process Persistence Privilege Escalation Splunk Enterprise Splunk Enterprise Security Splunk Cloud Endpoint

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Description

This analytic will detect suspicious driver loaded paths. This technique is commonly used by malicious software like coin miners (xmrig) to register its malicious driver from notable directories where executable or drivers do not commonly exist. During triage, validate this driver is for legitimate business use. Review the metadata and certificate information. Unsigned drivers from non-standard paths is not normal, but occurs. In addition, review driver loads into ntoskrnl.exe for possible other drivers of interest. Long tail analyze drivers by path (outside of default, and in default) for further review.

• Type: TTP
• Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk Cloud
• Datamodel: Endpoint
• Last Updated: 2021-04-29
• Author: Teoderick Contreras, Splunk
• ID: f880acd4-a8f1-11eb-a53b-acde48001122

ATT&CK

ID	Technique	Tactic
T1543.003	Windows Service	Persistence, Privilege Escalation

| T1543 | Create or Modify System Process | Persistence, Privilege Escalation |

Search

`sysmon` EventCode=6 ImageLoaded = "*.sys" NOT (ImageLoaded IN("*\\WINDOWS\\inf","*\\WINDOWS\\System32\\drivers\\*", "*\\WINDOWS\\System32\\DriverStore\\FileRepository\\*")) 
|  stats  min(_time) as firstTime max(_time) as lastTime count by Computer ImageLoaded Hashes IMPHASH Signature Signed 
| `security_content_ctime(firstTime)` 
| `security_content_ctime(lastTime)` 
| `suspicious_driver_loaded_path_filter`

Associated Analytic Story

• XMRig

How To Implement

To successfully implement this search, you need to be ingesting logs with the driver loaded and Signature from your endpoints. If you are using Sysmon, you must have at least version 6.0.4 of the Sysmon TA.

Required field

• _time
• Computer
• ImageLoaded
• Hashes
• IMPHASH
• Signature
• Signed

Kill Chain Phase

• Exploitation

Known False Positives

Limited false positives will be present. Some applications do load drivers

RBA

Risk Score	Impact	Confidence	Message
63.0	70	90	Suspicious driver ImageLoaded on Computer

Reference

• https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/hk/threat-encyclopedia/malware/trojan.ps1.powtran.a/
• https://redcanary.com/blog/tracking-driver-inventory-to-expose-rootkits/

Test Dataset

Replay any dataset to Splunk Enterprise by using our replay.py tool or the UI. Alternatively you can replay a dataset into a Splunk Attack Range

• https://media.githubusercontent.com/media/splunk/attack_data/master/datasets/malware/xmrig_miner/windows-sysmon.log

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