Antivirus - Hacktool Signature

Title: Antivirus - Hacktool Signature
Status: stable
Description:Detects a highly relevant Antivirus alert that reports a hack tool or other attack tool. This event must not be ignored just because the AV has blocked the malware but investigate, how it came there in the first place.
References:
  -https://www.nextron-systems.com/2021/08/16/antivirus-event-analysis-cheat-sheet-v1-8-2/
  -https://www.nextron-systems.com/?s=antivirus
Author: Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), Arnim Rupp
Date: 2021-08-16
modified:2026-06-15
Tags:

• -'attack.execution'
• -'attack.t1204'

Logsource:

• category: antivirus

Detection:
  selection:
    - Signature|startswith:
      - 'ATK/'
      - 'Exploit.Script.CVE'
      - 'HKTL'
      - 'HTOOL'
      - 'PWS.'
      - 'PWSX'
      - 'SecurityTool'
    - Signature|contains:
      - 'Adfind'
      - 'BloodH'
      - 'BloodyAD'
      - 'Brutel'
      - 'BruteR'
      - 'Cobalt'
      - 'COBEACON'
      - 'Cometer'
      - 'DumpCreds'
      - 'EDRfreeze'
      - 'FastReverseProxy'
      - 'Hacktool'
      - 'Havoc'
      - 'Impacket'
      - 'Keylogger'
      - 'Koadic'
      - 'Mimikatz'
      - 'Nighthawk'
      - 'PentestPowerShell'
      - 'Potato'
      - 'PowerSploit'
      - 'PowerSSH'
      - 'PshlSpy'
      - 'PSWTool'
      - 'PWCrack'
      - 'PWDump'
      - 'Responder'
      - 'Rozena'
      - 'Rusthound'
      - 'Sbelt'
      - 'Seatbelt'
      - 'SecurityTool'
      - 'SharpDump'
      - 'SharpHound'
      - 'Shellcode'
      - 'Sliver'
      - 'Snaffler'
      - 'SOAPHound'
      - 'Splinter'
      - 'Stowaway'
      - 'Swrort'
      - 'Trojan.Hound'
      - 'TurtleLoader'
      - 'Undefend'
      - 'Undfnd'
  condition:selection
Falsepositives:
  -Unlikely
Level: high