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Unsigned AppX Installation Attempt Using Add-AppxPackage

A Sigma rule for process creation on Windows, by Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems).

medium 2 programs it names 1 everyday example trips it

What it looks for

its detection, as SigmaHQ writes it
detection:
  selection_cmdlet:
    CommandLine|contains:
      - 'Add-AppPackage '
      - 'Add-AppxPackage '
  selection_flag:
    CommandLine|contains: ' -AllowUnsigned'
  selection_img:
    - Image|endswith:
        - '\powershell.exe'
        - '\pwsh.exe'
    - OriginalFileName:
        - 'PowerShell.EXE'
        - 'pwsh.dll'
  condition: all of selection_*

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 Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems), 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.

Command lines that trip it

everyday examples from tldr-pages, CC BY 4.0, each read by CmdID

Add an unsigned package on the page for add-appxpackage

Add-AppxPackage -Path path\to\package.msix -DependencyPath path\to\dependencies.msix -AllowUnsignedIdentify

Programs and files it names

their pages here