Suspicious ALPHA SPIDER Rclone Exfiltration Tool Masquerading as System Binary (via process_creation)

ATT&CK techniques

Defense Evasion → Exfiltration

Recon
Resource Dev
Initial Access
Execution
Persistence
Priv Esc
Defense Evasion
- T1036.005Match Legitimate Resource Name or Location
Cred Access
Discovery
Lateral Movement
Collection
C2
Exfiltration
- T1567.002Exfiltration to Cloud Storage
Impact

What it detects

This rule detects the Rclone data-transfer utility executing under a renamed file name. ALPHA SPIDER renamed rclone to svchost.exe and to a misspelled cloud-software name to blend exfiltration traffic with normal activity. A process whose original file name is rclone but whose on-disk name differs indicates masquerading for exfiltration.

Reporting behind it

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