Gamaredon PteroSand Sandbox Evasion via WMI VM Artifact and Timing Checks

Ibrahim Saud@tektrix

•updated Jun 27, 2026•0•0•2

Detects sandbox evasion techniques employed by the Gamaredon group using their PteroSand methodology. The rule monitors for WMI queries executed by suspicious parent processes to identify virtualization artifacts (VMware, VirtualBox) or system hardware/system information, which are characteristic of environment reconnaissance and timing-based checks prior to payload activation.