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Download Files Using Telegram	Ingress Tool Transfer	Endpoint	2021-05-06	true		Ingress Tool Transfer Command And Control Splunk Enterprise Splunk Enterprise Security Splunk Cloud Endpoint

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Description

The following analytic will identify a suspicious download by the Telegram application on a Windows system. This behavior was identified on a honeypot where the adversary gained access, installed Telegram and followed through with downloading different network scanners (port, bruteforcer, masscan) to the system and later used to mapped the whole network and further move laterally.

• Type: TTP
• Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk Cloud
• Datamodel: Endpoint
• Last Updated: 2021-05-06
• Author: Teoderick Contreras, Splunk
• ID: 58194e28-ae5e-11eb-8912-acde48001122

ATT&CK

ID	Technique	Tactic
T1105	Ingress Tool Transfer	Command And Control

Search

`sysmon` EventCode= 15 process_name = "telegram.exe" TargetFilename = "*:Zone.Identifier" 
|stats count min(_time) as firstTime max(_time) as lastTime by Computer EventCode Image process_id TargetFilename Hash 
| `security_content_ctime(firstTime)` 
| `security_content_ctime(lastTime)` 
| `download_files_using_telegram_filter`

Associated Analytic Story

• XMRig

How To Implement

To successfully implement this search, you need to be ingesting logs with the process name and TargetFilename from your endpoints or Events that monitor filestream events which is happened when process download something. (EventCode 15) If you are using Sysmon, you must have at least version 6.0.4 of the Sysmon TA.

Required field

• _time
• Computer
• EventCode
• Image
• process_id
• TargetFilename
• Hash

Kill Chain Phase

• Exploitation

Known False Positives

normal download of file in telegram app. (if it was a common app in network)

RBA

Risk Score	Impact	Confidence	Message
49.0	70	70	Suspicious files were downloaded with the Telegram application on dest by user.

Reference

• https://thedfirreport.com/2020/04/20/sqlserver-or-the-miner-in-the-basement/

Test Dataset

Replay any dataset to Splunk Enterprise by using our replay.py tool or the UI. Alternatively you can replay a dataset into a Splunk Attack Range

• https://media.githubusercontent.com/media/splunk/attack_data/master/datasets/malware/minergate/windows-sysmon.log

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