name: Network Connection Discovery With Net id: 640337e5-6e41-4b7f-af06-9d9eab5e1e2d version: 1 date: '2021-09-10' author: Mauricio Velazco, Splunk status: production type: Hunting description: This analytic looks for the execution of `net.exe` with command-line arguments utilized to get a listing of network connections on a compromised system. Red Teams and adversaries alike may use net.exe for situational awareness and Active Directory Discovery. data_source: - Sysmon Event ID 1 search: selection1: CommandLine: '*use*' Image|endswith: - net1.exe - net.exe condition: (selection1) 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. known_false_positives: Administrators or power users may use this command for troubleshooting. references: - https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1049/ tags: analytic_story: - Active Directory Discovery - Azorult - Windows Post-Exploitation - Prestige Ransomware asset_type: Endpoint confidence: 50 impact: 30 message: Network Connection discovery on $dest$ by $user$ mitre_attack_id: - T1049 observable: - name: dest type: Endpoint role: - Victim product: - Splunk Enterprise - Splunk Enterprise Security - Splunk Cloud risk_score: 15 security_domain: endpoint tests: - name: True Positive Test attack_data: - data: https://media.githubusercontent.com/media/splunk/attack_data/master/datasets/attack_techniques/T1049/AD_discovery/windows-sysmon.log source: XmlWinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational sourcetype: xmlwineventlog