false positives should be limited as there is a small subset of binaries that contain the original file name of ab.exe. filter as needed.

Techniques

T1059

Sample rules

Windows Apache Benchmark Binary

source: splunk
technicques:
- T1059

Description

The following analytic identifies a default behavior of a MetaSploit payload. MetaSploit uses Apache Benchmark to generate payloads. The payloads contain standard artifacts including “Apache Benchmark” and the original file name is always ab.exe. During triage, review the process and it’s path. It is possible network connections spawned from it. Review parallel processes for further behaviors.

Detection logic


| tstats `security_content_summariesonly` count min(_time) as firstTime max(_time) as lastTime from datamodel=Endpoint.Processes where Processes.original_file_name=ab.exe by Processes.dest Processes.user Processes.parent_process_name Processes.process_name Processes.original_file_name Processes.process Processes.process_id Processes.parent_process_id 
| `drop_dm_object_name(Processes)` 
| `security_content_ctime(firstTime)` 
| `security_content_ctime(lastTime)` 
| `windows_apache_benchmark_binary_filter`