Potentially Suspicious Usage Of Qemu - Virtual Machine Created With Very Low RAM Size

Rule Info

Name
Potentially Suspicious Usage Of Qemu - Virtual Machine Created With Very Low RAM Size
Author
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
Description
Detects potentially suspicious execution of the Qemu utility in a Windows environment where the allocated size for the Virtual Machine is very low. This could be a sign of abuse as shown by threat actors that have leveraged this utility and this technique for achieving network access as reported by Kaspersky.
Date
2024-06-04 00:00:00
Modified
None
Id
53fab9d4-fb29-4bdf-99b5-376a5886a589
Tags
attack.command_and_control attack.t1090 attack.t1572
Type
Nextron Sigma feed only (private)

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