name: Check Elevated CMD using whoami
id: a9079b18-1633-11ec-859c-acde48001122
version: 1
date: '2021-09-15'
author: Teoderick Contreras, Splunk
status: production
type: TTP
description: This search is to detect a suspicious whoami execution to check if the
  cmd or shell instance process is with elevated privileges. This technique was seen
  in FIN7 js implant where it execute this as part of its data collection to the infected
  machine to check if the running shell cmd process is elevated or not. This TTP is
  really a good alert for known attacker that recon on the targetted host. This command
  is not so commonly executed by a normal user or even an admin to check if a process
  is elevated.
data_source:
- Sysmon Event ID 1
search:
  selection1:
    CommandLine: '*/group*'
  selection2:
    CommandLine: '*whoami*'
  selection3:
    CommandLine: '* find *'
  selection4:
    CommandLine: '*12288*'
  condition: selection1 and selection2 and selection3 and selection4
how_to_implement: To successfully implement this search, you need to be ingesting
  logs with the process name, parent process, and command-line executions from your
  endpoints. If you are using Sysmon, you must have at least version 6.0.4 of the
  Sysmon TA. Tune and filter known instances where renamed rundll32.exe may be used.
known_false_positives: unknown
references: []
tags:
  analytic_story:
  - FIN7
  asset_type: Endpoint
  confidence: 80
  impact: 70
  message: Process name $process_name$ with commandline $process$ in $dest$
  mitre_attack_id:
  - T1033
  observable:
  - name: dest
    type: Endpoint
    role:
    - Victim
  - name: user
    type: User
    role:
    - Victim
  product:
  - Splunk Enterprise
  - Splunk Enterprise Security
  - Splunk Cloud
  risk_score: 56
  security_domain: endpoint
tests:
- name: True Positive Test
  attack_data:
  - data: https://media.githubusercontent.com/media/splunk/attack_data/master/datasets/malware/fin7/fin7_js_2/sysmon.log
    source: XmlWinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational
    sourcetype: xmlwineventlog