taskmgr_ANOMALY


Description

Anomaly rule looking for certain strings in a system file (maybe false positive on certain systems) - file taskmgr.exe

Query · yara

strings:
      $s0 = "Windows Task Manager" fullword wide
      $s1 = "taskmgr.chm" fullword
      $s2 = "TmEndTaskHandler::" ascii
      $s3 = "CM_Request_Eject_PC" /* Win XP */
      $s4 = "NTShell Taskman Startup Mutex" fullword wide
   condition:
      ( filename == "taskmgr.exe" or filename == "Taskmgr.exe" ) and not 1 of ($s*) and not WINDOWS_UPDATE_BDC
      and uint16(0) == 0x5a4d
      and filepath contains "C:\\"
      and not filepath contains "Package_for_RollupFix"

Rule dependencies

Depends on

Raw source taskmgr_ANOMALY · YARA
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Published by Neo23x0/signature-base ↗, licensed under Detection Rule License 1.1 ↗. Reproduced here unmodified.
rule taskmgr_ANOMALY {
   meta:
      description = "Anomaly rule looking for certain strings in a system file (maybe false positive on certain systems) - file taskmgr.exe"
      author = "Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)"
      reference = "not set"
      date = "2015/03/16"
      nodeepdive = 1
      hash = "e8b4d84a28e5ea17272416ec45726964fdf25883"
      id = "e1c3a150-6e7e-5ead-a338-0bac6f43185d"
   strings:
      $s0 = "Windows Task Manager" fullword wide
      $s1 = "taskmgr.chm" fullword
      $s2 = "TmEndTaskHandler::" ascii
      $s3 = "CM_Request_Eject_PC" /* Win XP */
      $s4 = "NTShell Taskman Startup Mutex" fullword wide
   condition:
      ( filename == "taskmgr.exe" or filename == "Taskmgr.exe" ) and not 1 of ($s*) and not WINDOWS_UPDATE_BDC
      and uint16(0) == 0x5a4d
      and filepath contains "C:\\"
      and not filepath contains "Package_for_RollupFix"
}

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