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rclone copy or sync to remote storage (T1567.002)

XQLmediumconfidence 70/100generated 2026-10-18

rclone.exe copying or syncing data to a remote — the exfiltration tool of choice for data-theft extortion crews. Observed for: APT27, APT31, APT40, BRONZE STARLIGHT, Chimera, Confucius and 17 more.

ATT&CK
T1567.002 mitre ↗
Correlation
set the rule's MITRE tactic to TA0010 and technique to T1567.002
Linked actors
APT27 · APT31 · APT40 · BRONZE STARLIGHT · Chimera · Confucius · Contagious Interview · Earth Lusca · HAFNIUM · INDRIK SPIDER · Kimsuky · LYCEUM · Medusa Group · MuddyWater · MUSTANG PANDA · POLONIUM · SaintBear · Scattered Spider · Storm-0501 · Storm-1567 · ToddyCat · Turla · WIZARD SPIDER
False positives
Matches only rclone running copy/sync; listing, config and mount do not match. Renamed rclone binaries are not covered by the Cortex/QRadar versions (Sigma also checks the PE description).

XQL query

skopnix-cortex-ttp-t1567-002-8537ba37.xqldownload .xql ↓
dataset = xdr_data
| filter event_type = ENUM.PROCESS and event_sub_type = ENUM.PROCESS_START
| filter lowercase(action_process_image_name) = "rclone.exe" and (lowercase(action_process_image_command_line) contains " copy " or lowercase(action_process_image_command_line) contains " sync ")
| fields _time, agent_hostname, actor_effective_username, action_process_image_name, action_process_image_command_line, actor_process_image_name, causality_actor_process_image_name
| sort desc _time

How to deploy on Cortex XDR

  1. 1.Paste the XQL into Incident Response > Investigation > Query Builder > XQL Search.
  2. 2.To alert, save it as a Correlation Rule and set the MITRE tactic and technique printed with the rule.
  3. 3.Schedule it on the interval you hunt at; keep the fields stage for the alert's columns.

Check · CVE rules read PAN-OS URL logs (panw_ngfw_url_raw), which need the NGFW integration and, for HTTPS, decryption.

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