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Atera Agent Installation

Detects successful installation of Atera Remote Monitoring & Management (RMM) agent as recently found to be used by Conti operators

MITRE ATT&CK

T1219.002

command-and-control

Detection Query

selection:
  EventID: 1033
  Provider_Name: MsiInstaller
  Message|contains: AteraAgent
condition: selection

Author

Bhabesh Raj

Created

2021-09-01

Data Sources

windowsapplication

Platforms

windows

References

https://www.advintel.io/post/secret-backdoor-behind-conti-ransomware-operation-introducing-atera-agent

Tags

attack.command-and-controlattack.t1219.002

Raw Content

title: Atera Agent Installation
id: 87261fb2-69d0-42fe-b9de-88c6b5f65a43
status: test
description: Detects successful installation of Atera Remote Monitoring & Management (RMM) agent as recently found to be used by Conti operators
references:
    - https://www.advintel.io/post/secret-backdoor-behind-conti-ransomware-operation-introducing-atera-agent
author: Bhabesh Raj
date: 2021-09-01
modified: 2022-12-25
tags:
    - attack.command-and-control
    - attack.t1219.002
logsource:
    service: application
    product: windows
detection:
    selection:
        EventID: 1033
        Provider_Name: MsiInstaller
        Message|contains: AteraAgent
    condition: selection
falsepositives:
    - Legitimate Atera agent installation
level: high