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add: Huntress Labs Cleo exploitation rules
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title: Possible Cleo MFT Exploitation 2024
id: f007b877-02e3-45b7-8501-1b78c2864029
status: experimental
description: Detects Powershell spawned from Cleo software. Evidence of unknown threat actor exploiting the CLEO tooling using this pattern observed in Dec 2024.
author: Tanner Filip, Austin Worline, Chad Hudson, Matt Anderson
references:
- https://www.huntress.com/blog/threat-advisory-oh-no-cleo-cleo-software-actively-being-exploited-in-the-wild
date: 2024-12-09
tags:
- attack.execution
- attack.t1190
logsource:
category: process_creation
product: windows
detection:
selection:
ParentImage|endswith: '\javaw.exe'
Image|endswith: '\cmd.exe'
CommandLine|contains:
- 'powershell'
- ' -NonInteractive'
- ' -noni '
- ' -enc '
- ' -EncodedCommand'
ParentCommandLine|contains:
- 'VLTrader'
- 'lexicom'
- 'Harmony'
- 'VersaLex'

condition: selection
falsepositives:
- Unknown
level: high
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title: Javaw Spawning Suspicious Powershell Commands
id: a0ec945f-2328-40e9-96f6-27dadf72861b
status: experimental
description: Detects Javaw spawning suspicious powershell commands. This has been observed as possible post-exploitation activity of Cleo software.
author: Chad Hudson, Matt Anderson
references:
- https://www.huntress.com/blog/threat-advisory-oh-no-cleo-cleo-software-actively-being-exploited-in-the-wild
date: 2024-12-09
tags:
- attack.t1059.001
logsource:
category: process_creation
product: windows
detection:
selection:
ParentImage|endswith:
- '\javaw.exe'
Image|endswith:
- '\cmd.exe'
cmdline:
CommandLine|contains:
- ' -nop'
- ' -noni'
- ' -NonInteractive'
- ' -w hidden '
- ' -windowstyle hidden*'
- '(New-Object Net.WebClient).Download*'
- ' -enc '
- ' -EncodedCommand '
powershell:
CommandLine|contains: powershell
condition: selection and cmdline and powershell
falsepositives:
- Unknown

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