RottenPotato_Potato


Description

Detects a component of privilege escalation tool Rotten Potato - file Potato.exe

Query · yara

strings:
      $x1 = "Potato.exe -ip <ip>" fullword wide
      $x2 = "-enable_httpserver true -enable_spoof true" fullword wide
      $x3 = "/C schtasks.exe /Create /TN omg /TR" fullword wide
      $x4 = "-enable_token true -enable_dce true" fullword wide
      $x5 = "DNS lookup succeeds - UDP Exhaustion failed!" fullword wide
      $x6 = "DNS lookup fails - UDP Exhaustion worked!" fullword wide
      $x7 = "\\obj\\Release\\Potato.pdb" ascii
      $x8 = "function FindProxyForURL(url,host){if (dnsDomainIs(host, \"localhost\")) return \"DIRECT\";" fullword wide

      $s1 = "\"C:\\Windows\\System32\\cmd.exe\" /K start" fullword wide
   condition:
      ( uint16(0) == 0x5a4d and filesize < 200KB and 1 of ($x*) ) or ( 2 of them )
Raw source RottenPotato_Potato · YARA
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Published by Neo23x0/signature-base ↗, licensed under Detection Rule License 1.1 ↗. Reproduced here unmodified.
rule RottenPotato_Potato {
   meta:
      description = "Detects a component of privilege escalation tool Rotten Potato - file Potato.exe"
      license = "Detection Rule License 1.1 https://github.com/Neo23x0/signature-base/blob/master/LICENSE"
      author = "Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)"
      reference = "https://github.com/foxglovesec/RottenPotato"
      date = "2017-02-07"
      modified = "2022-12-21"
      score = 90
      hash1 = "59cdbb21d9e487ca82748168682f1f7af3c5f2b8daee3a09544dd58cbf51b0d5"
      id = "4a12783c-f58a-518b-a80a-f09f146304cc"
   strings:
      $x1 = "Potato.exe -ip <ip>" fullword wide
      $x2 = "-enable_httpserver true -enable_spoof true" fullword wide
      $x3 = "/C schtasks.exe /Create /TN omg /TR" fullword wide
      $x4 = "-enable_token true -enable_dce true" fullword wide
      $x5 = "DNS lookup succeeds - UDP Exhaustion failed!" fullword wide
      $x6 = "DNS lookup fails - UDP Exhaustion worked!" fullword wide
      $x7 = "\\obj\\Release\\Potato.pdb" ascii
      $x8 = "function FindProxyForURL(url,host){if (dnsDomainIs(host, \"localhost\")) return \"DIRECT\";" fullword wide

      $s1 = "\"C:\\Windows\\System32\\cmd.exe\" /K start" fullword wide
   condition:
      ( uint16(0) == 0x5a4d and filesize < 200KB and 1 of ($x*) ) or ( 2 of them )
}

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