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Description

This search is used to detect the abuse of the right-to-left override (RTLO or RLO) character (U+202E) RTLO. This technique is used by adversaries to disguise a string and/or file name to make it appear benign. The RTLO character is a non-printing Unicode character that causes the text that follows it to be displayed in reverse.

  • Type: TTP
  • Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk Cloud
  • Datamodel: Endpoint
  • Last Updated: 2023-04-26
  • Author: Steven Dick
  • ID: 468b7e11-d362-43b8-b6ec-7a2d3b246678

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ATT&CK

ATT&CK

ID Technique Tactic
T1036.002 Right-to-Left Override Defense Evasion
T1036 Masquerading Defense Evasion
Kill Chain Phase
  • Exploitation
NIST
  • DE.CM
CIS20
  • CIS 10
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| tstats `security_content_summariesonly` count min(_time) as firstTime max(_time) as lastTime values(Filesystem.file_create_time) as file_create_time from datamodel=Endpoint.Filesystem where Filesystem.file_name!=unknown by Filesystem.dest Filesystem.user Filesystem.process_id Filesystem.file_name Filesystem.file_path 
| `drop_dm_object_name(Filesystem)` 
| `security_content_ctime(firstTime)` 
| `security_content_ctime(lastTime)` 
| regex file_name =  "\\x{202E}" 
| rex field=file_name "(?<RTLO_file_1>.+)(?<RTLO_exist_file>\\x{202E})(?<RTLO_file_2>.+)" 
| eval file_name_with_RTLO=file_name 
| eval file_name=RTLO_file_1.RTLO_file_2 
| fields - RTLO* 
| `detect_rtlo_in_file_name_filter`

Macros

The SPL above uses the following Macros:

:information_source: detect_rtlo_in_file_name_filter is a empty macro by default. It allows the user to filter out any results (false positives) without editing the SPL.

Required fields

List of fields required to use this analytic.

  • _time
  • Filesystem.dest
  • Filesystem.user
  • Filesystem.file_name
  • Filesystem.file_path
  • Filesystem.process_id

How To Implement

To successfully implement this search you need to be ingesting information on process that includes the full command line of the process being launched on your endpoints into the Endpoint datamodel in the Processes node. In addition, confirm the latest CIM App 4.20 or higher is installed and the latest TA for the endpoint product.

Known False Positives

Implementation in regions that use right to left in native language.

Associated Analytic Story

RBA

Risk Score Impact Confidence Message
40.0 50 80 Suspicious RTLO detected in $file_name$ on endpoint $dest$ by user $user$.

:information_source: The Risk Score is calculated by the following formula: Risk Score = (Impact * Confidence/100). Initial Confidence and Impact is set by the analytic author.

Reference

Test Dataset

Replay any dataset to Splunk Enterprise by using our replay.py tool or the UI. Alternatively you can replay a dataset into a Splunk Attack Range

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