Analytics Story: IcedID

Updated Date: 2026-05-13 ID: 1d2cc747-63d7-49a9-abb8-93aa36305603 Author: Teoderick Contreras, Splunk Product: Splunk Enterprise Security

Description

Leverage searches that allow you to detect and investigate unusual activities that might relate to the IcedID banking trojan, including looking for file writes associated with its payload, process injection, shellcode execution and data collection.

Why it matters

IcedId banking trojan campaigns targeting banks and other vertical sectors.This malware is known in Microsoft Windows OS targetting browser such as firefox and chrom to steal banking information. It is also known to its unique payload downloaded in C2 where it can be a .png file that hides the core shellcode bot using steganography technique or gzip dat file that contains "license.dat" which is the actual core icedid bot.

Detections

Name ▲▼	Technique ▲▼	Type ▲▼
Disable Defender MpEngine Registry	Disable or Modify Tools	TTP
Windows File Download Via PowerShell	PowerShell, Ingress Tool Transfer	Anomaly
Disable Defender BlockAtFirstSeen Feature	Disable or Modify Tools	TTP
Rundll32 Create Remote Thread To A Process	Process Injection	TTP
Rundll32 Process Creating Exe Dll Files	Rundll32	TTP
Drop IcedID License dat	Malicious File	Hunting
CMD Carry Out String Command Parameter	Windows Command Shell	Hunting
Windows PUA Named Pipe	SMB/Windows Admin Shares, Process Injection, Inter-Process Communication	Anomaly
Process Creating LNK file in Suspicious Location	Spearphishing Link	Anomaly
Network Share Discovery Via Dir Command	Network Share Discovery	Hunting
Suspicious Rundll32 PluginInit	Rundll32	TTP
Executables Or Script Creation In Temp Path	Masquerading	Anomaly
Powershell Fileless Script Contains Base64 Encoded Content	Obfuscated Files or Information, PowerShell	TTP
Sqlite Module In Temp Folder	Data from Local System	TTP
Suspicious IcedID Rundll32 Cmdline	Rundll32	TTP
Disable Defender Enhanced Notification	Disable or Modify Tools	TTP
IcedID Exfiltrated Archived File Creation	Archive via Utility	Hunting
Windows Suspicious Process File Path	Match Legitimate Resource Name or Location, Create or Modify System Process	TTP
Powershell Using memory As Backing Store	PowerShell	TTP
Disabling Defender Services	Disable or Modify Tools	TTP
Eventvwr UAC Bypass	Bypass User Account Control	TTP
Regsvr32 with Known Silent Switch Cmdline	Regsvr32	Anomaly
Suspicious Copy on System32	Rename Legitimate Utilities	Anomaly
Disable Defender Spynet Reporting	Disable or Modify Tools	TTP
Windows WMI Process Call Create	Windows Management Instrumentation	Hunting
Suspicious Rundll32 dllregisterserver	Rundll32	TTP
Windows Office Product Spawned Uncommon Process	Spearphishing Attachment	TTP
Detect PsExec With accepteula Flag	SMB/Windows Admin Shares	TTP
Windows Group Discovery Via Net	Local Groups, Domain Groups	Hunting
Powershell Processing Stream Of Data	PowerShell	Anomaly
Windows Sensitive Group Discovery With Net	Domain Groups	Anomaly
Rundll32 DNSQuery	Rundll32	TTP
Schedule Task with Rundll32 Command Trigger	Scheduled Task/Job	TTP
FodHelper UAC Bypass	Modify Registry, Bypass User Account Control	TTP
Suspicious Regsvr32 Register Suspicious Path	Regsvr32	TTP
WinEvent Windows Task Scheduler Event Action Started	Scheduled Task	Hunting
WinEvent Scheduled Task Created Within Public Path	Scheduled Task	TTP
NLTest Domain Trust Discovery	Domain Trust Discovery	TTP
Windows Uncommon Remote Thread Creation In Browser Process	Dynamic-link Library Injection	Anomaly
Windows ISO LNK File Creation	Malicious Link, Spearphishing Attachment	Hunting
Disable Schedule Task	Disable or Modify Tools	Anomaly
Rundll32 CreateRemoteThread In Browser	Process Injection	TTP
Disable Defender Submit Samples Consent Feature	Disable or Modify Tools	TTP
Mshta spawning Rundll32 OR Regsvr32 Process	Mshta	TTP
Remote WMI Command Attempt	Windows Management Instrumentation	TTP
RunDLL Loading DLL By Ordinal	Rundll32	TTP
Windows Curl Download to Suspicious Path	Ingress Tool Transfer	TTP
Wmic NonInteractive App Uninstallation	Disable or Modify Tools	Hunting
Disable Defender AntiVirus Registry	Disable or Modify Tools	TTP
Windows AdFind Exe	Remote System Discovery	TTP
Windows Office Product Loading VBE7 DLL	Spearphishing Attachment	Anomaly
Registry Keys Used For Persistence	Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder	TTP
Executable File Written in Administrative SMB Share	SMB/Windows Admin Shares	TTP
Executables Or Script Creation In Suspicious Path	Masquerading	Anomaly
Windows Phishing Recent ISO Exec Registry	Spearphishing Attachment	Hunting
Create Remote Thread In Shell Application	Process Injection	TTP
Network Connection Discovery With Arp	System Network Connections Discovery	Hunting

Data Sources

Name ▲▼	Platform ▲▼	Sourcetype ▲▼	Source ▲▼
Sysmon EventID 13	Windows	`XmlWinEventLog`	`XmlWinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational`
Windows Event Log Security 4688	Windows	`XmlWinEventLog`	`XmlWinEventLog:Security`
CrowdStrike ProcessRollup2	Other	`crowdstrike:events:sensor`	`crowdstrike`
Sysmon EventID 1	Windows	`XmlWinEventLog`	`XmlWinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational`
Cisco Network Visibility Module Flow Data	Network	`cisco:nvm:flowdata`	`not_applicable`
Sysmon EventID 8	Windows	`XmlWinEventLog`	`XmlWinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational`
Sysmon EventID 11	Windows	`XmlWinEventLog`	`XmlWinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational`
Sysmon EventID 17	Windows	`XmlWinEventLog`	`XmlWinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational`
Sysmon EventID 18	Windows	`XmlWinEventLog`	`XmlWinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational`
Windows Event Log Security 5140	Windows	`XmlWinEventLog`	`XmlWinEventLog:Security`
Powershell Script Block Logging 4104	Windows	`XmlWinEventLog`	`XmlWinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-PowerShell/Operational`
Sysmon EventID 22	Windows	`XmlWinEventLog`	`XmlWinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational`
Windows Event Log Security 4698	Windows	`XmlWinEventLog`	`XmlWinEventLog:Security`
Windows Event Log TaskScheduler 201	Windows	`XmlWinEventLog`	`XmlWinEventLog:Security`
Windows Event Log TaskScheduler 200	Windows	`wineventlog`	`WinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler/Operational`
Sysmon EventID 7	Windows	`XmlWinEventLog`	`XmlWinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational`
Windows Event Log Security 5145	Windows	`XmlWinEventLog`	`XmlWinEventLog:Security`

References

Source: GitHub | Version: 2