Potential Mpclient.DLL Sideloading Via OfflineScannerShell.EXE Execution

 Original Source: [Sigma source]
Title: Potential Mpclient.DLL Sideloading Via OfflineScannerShell.EXE Execution
Status: test
Description:Detects execution of Windows Defender "OfflineScannerShell.exe" from its non standard directory. The "OfflineScannerShell.exe" binary is vulnerable to DLL side loading and will load any DLL named "mpclient.dll" from the current working directory.
References:
  -https://lolbas-project.github.io/lolbas/Binaries/OfflineScannerShell/
Author: frack113
Date: 2022-03-06
modified:2023-08-03
Tags:
  • -'attack.stealth'
  • -'attack.t1218'
Logsource:
  • category: process_creation
  • product: windows
Detection:
  selection:
Image|endswith:'\OfflineScannerShell.exe' OriginalFileName:'OfflineScannerShell.exe'   filter_main_legit_dir:
    CurrentDirectory: 'C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\Offline\'
  filter_main_empty:
    CurrentDirectory: ''
  filter_main_null:
    CurrentDirectory: 'None'
  condition:selection and not 1 of filter_main_*
Falsepositives:
  -Unknown
Level: medium