Mshta VBScript Execute PowerShell#

Metadata#

Contributors

Roberto Rodriguez @Cyb3rWard0g

Creation Date

2020/10/22

Modification Date

2020/10/22

Tactics

TA0005

Techniques

T1218.005

Tags

art.906865c3-e05f-4acc-85c4-fbc185455095

Dataset Description#

This dataset represents threat actors leveraging mshta.exe to proxy execute malicious powershell commands via vbscript.

Simulation Metadata#

Tools#

type

Name

Module

Manual

Cmd

Cmd

Adversary View#

mshta vbscript:Execute("CreateObject(""Wscript.Shell"").Run ""powershell -noexit -command Get-Service sysmon"":close")

Explore Datasets#

Download & Decompress Dataset#

import requests
from zipfile import ZipFile
from io import BytesIO

url = https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OTRF/Security-Datasets/master/datasets/atomic/windows/defense_evasion/host/cmd_mshta_vbscript_execute_psh.zip
zipFileRequest = requests.get(url)
zipFile = ZipFile(BytesIO(zipFileRequest.content))
datasetJSONPath = zipFile.extract(zipFile.namelist()[0])

Read JSON File#

from pandas.io import json

df = json.read_json(path_or_buf=datasetJSONPath, lines=True)

Access Security Events#

df.groupby(['Channel']).size().sort_values(ascending=False)