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Midnight Blizzard - suspicious rundll32.exe execution of vbscript
Description
'This query idenifies when rundll32.exe executes a specific set of inline VBScript commands
References: https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2021/03/04/goldmax-goldfinder-sibot-analyzing-nobelium-malware/'
- Rule type
- Scheduled
- Version
- 1.1.6
- Query frequency
- 1d
- Query period
- 1d
- Trigger
- gt 0
Declared MITRE coverage
Declared sources
Metadata from the source file. No dependencies inferred from KQL.
Connectors
Data types
KQL query
Original query, unchanged.
(union isfuzzy=true
(SecurityEvent
| where EventID == 4688
| where Process =~ 'rundll32.exe'
| where CommandLine has_all ('Execute','RegRead','window.close')
| project TimeGenerated, Computer, SubjectAccount = Account, SubjectUserName, SubjectDomainName, SubjectUserSid, Process, ProcessId, NewProcessName, CommandLine, ParentProcessName, _ResourceId
),
(WindowsEvent
| where EventID == 4688 and EventData has 'rundll32.exe' and EventData has_any ('Execute','RegRead','window.close')
| extend NewProcessName = tostring(EventData.NewProcessName)
| extend Process=tostring(split(NewProcessName, '\\')[-1])
| where Process =~ 'rundll32.exe'
| extend CommandLine = tostring(EventData.CommandLine)
| where CommandLine has_all ('Execute','RegRead','window.close')
| extend SubjectAccount = strcat(EventData.SubjectDomainName,"\\", EventData.SubjectUserName)
| extend ParentProcessName = tostring(EventData.ParentProcessName)
| project TimeGenerated, Computer, SubjectAccount, SubjectUserName = tostring(EventData.SubjectUserName), SubjectDomainName = tostring(EventData.SubjectDomainName), SubjectUserSid = tostring(EventData.SubjectUserSid), Process, NewProcessName, CommandLine, ParentProcessName, _ResourceId
)
)
| extend HostName = tostring(split(Computer, ".")[0]), DomainIndex = toint(indexof(Computer, '.'))
| extend HostNameDomain = iff(DomainIndex != -1, substring(Computer, DomainIndex + 1), Computer)
| project-away DomainIndex
Declared entities
Related content
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Source provenance
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- Commit
9800e51↗- Source identifier
d82e1987-4356-4a7b-bc5e-064f29b143c0
Additional source files 1
Detections/SecurityEvent/MidnightBlizzard_SuspiciousRundll32Exec.yamlsource ↗GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING
Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC