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AddinUtil.EXE Execution From Uncommon Directory

A Sigma rule for process creation on Windows, by Michael McKinley (@McKinleyMike), Tony Latteri (@TheLatteri).

medium 1 ATT&CK technique 1 program it names

What it looks for

its detection, as SigmaHQ writes it
detection:
  filter_main_legit_location:
    Image|contains:
      - ':\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\'
      - ':\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\'
      - ':\Windows\Microsoft.NET\FrameworkArm\'
      - ':\Windows\Microsoft.NET\FrameworkArm64\'
      - ':\Windows\WinSxS\'
  selection:
    - Image|endswith: '\addinutil.exe'
    - OriginalFileName: 'AddInUtil.exe'
  condition: selection and not 1 of filter_main_*

The rule’s detection, its selections and fields in order of name. The whole rule, with its references and false positives, is on SigmaHQ, by Michael McKinley (@McKinleyMike), Tony Latteri (@TheLatteri), under the Detection Rule License 1.1. CmdID evaluates it on a command line alone: a test on what a command line cannot show, such as the parent process or the user, is not met.

None of the everyday examples and documented commands on CmdID’s program pages trips it. To see whether a command line does, paste it into CmdID.

Programs and files it names

their pages here
addinutil.exe

ATT&CK

the techniques it is tagged with
T1218System Binary Proxy Execution

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