name: Windows System LogOff Commandline id: 74a8133f-93e7-4b71-9bd3-13a66124fd57 version: 1 date: '2022-07-27' author: Teoderick Contreras, Splunk type: Anomaly datamodel: - Endpoint description: The following analytic identifies Windows commandline to logoff a windows host machine. This technique was seen in several APT, RAT like dcrat and other commodity malware to shutdown the machine to add more impact, interrupt access, aid destruction of the system like wiping disk or inhibit system recovery. This TTP is a good pivot to check why application trigger this commandline which is not so common way to logoff a machine. search: '| tstats `security_content_summariesonly` values(Processes.process) as process min(_time) as firstTime max(_time) as lastTime from datamodel=Endpoint.Processes where (Processes.process_name = shutdown.exe OR Processes.original_file_name = shutdown.exe) Processes.process="*shutdown*" Processes.process="* /l*" Processes.process="* /t*" by Processes.dest Processes.user Processes.parent_process Processes.process_name Processes.original_file_name Processes.process Processes.process_id Processes.parent_process_id | `drop_dm_object_name(Processes)` | `security_content_ctime(firstTime)` | `security_content_ctime(lastTime)` | `windows_system_logoff_commandline_filter`' how_to_implement: To successfully implement this search you need to be ingesting information on process that include the name of the process responsible for the changes from your endpoints into the `Endpoint` datamodel in the `Processes` node. In addition, confirm the latest CIM App 4.20 or higher is installed and the latest TA for the endpoint product. known_false_positives: Administrator may execute this commandline to trigger shutdown, logoff or restart the host machine. references: - https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1529/ - https://www.mandiant.com/resources/analyzing-dark-crystal-rat-backdoor tags: analytic_story: - DarkCrystal RAT asset_type: Endpoint cis20: - CIS 3 - CIS 5 - CIS 16 confidence: 80 context: - Source:Endpoint - Stage:Execution dataset: - https://media.githubusercontent.com/media/splunk/attack_data/master/datasets/malware/reboot_logoff_commandline/sysmon.log impact: 70 kill_chain_phases: - Exploitation message: Process name $process_name$ is seen to execute logoff commandline on $dest$ mitre_attack_id: - T1529 nist: - DE.CM observable: - name: dest type: Hostname role: - Victim product: - Splunk Enterprise - Splunk Enterprise Security - Splunk Cloud required_fields: - _time - Processes.dest - Processes.user - Processes.parent_process_name - Processes.parent_process - Processes.original_file_name - Processes.process_name - Processes.process - Processes.process_id - Processes.parent_process_path - Processes.process_path - Processes.parent_process_id risk_score: 56 security_domain: endpoint supported_tas: - Splunk_TA_microsoft_sysmon