Suspicious Compress Data and Lock With Password for Exfiltration With WINZIP (via process_creation)

title: Suspicious Compress Data and Lock With Password for Exfiltration With WINZIP (via process_creation)
id: 763fe145-c5b2-58e0-a179-1227e7626651
status: stable
description: This rule detects an adversary may compress or encrypt data that is collected prior to exfiltration using 3rd party utilities
references:
    - https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1560/001/
    - https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/f339e7da7d05f6057fdfcdd3742bfcf365fee2a9/atomics/T1560.001/T1560.001.md
author: Huntrule Team
date: 2026-03-04
tags:
    - attack.collection
    - attack.t1560.001
logsource:
    category: process_creation
    product: windows
detection:
    selection_winzip:
        CommandLine|contains:
            - 'winzip.exe'
            - 'winzip64.exe'
    selection_password:
        CommandLine|contains: '-s"'
    selection_other:
        CommandLine|contains:
            - ' -min '
            - ' -a '
    condition: all of selection*
falsepositives:
    - Unknown
level: medium