Suspicious AgentExecutor PowerShell Execution

Title: Suspicious AgentExecutor PowerShell Execution
Status: test
Description:Detects execution of the AgentExecutor.exe binary. Which can be abused as a LOLBIN to execute powershell scripts with the ExecutionPolicy "Bypass" or any binary named "powershell.exe" located in the path provided by 6th positional argument
References:
  -https://twitter.com/lefterispan/status/1286259016436514816
  -https://lolbas-project.github.io/lolbas/OtherMSBinaries/Agentexecutor/
  -https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/apps/intune-management-extension
  -https://twitter.com/jseerden/status/1247985304667066373/photo/1
Author: Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems), memory-shards
Date: 2022-12-24
modified:2024-08-07
Tags:

• -'attack.stealth'
• -'attack.t1218'

Logsource:

• category: process_creation
• product: windows

Detection:
  selection_img:
Image|endswith:'\AgentExecutor.exe' OriginalFileName:'AgentExecutor.exe'   selection_cli:
    CommandLine|contains:
      -' -powershell'
      -' -remediationScript'

  filter_main_pwsh:
    CommandLine|contains:
      -'C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\'
      -'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\'

  filter_main_intune:
    ParentImage|endswith: '\Microsoft.Management.Services.IntuneWindowsAgent.exe'
  condition:all of selection_* and not 1 of filter_main_*
Falsepositives:
  -Unknown
Level: high