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splunk-security_content/detections/endpoint/windows_terminating_lsass_process.yml
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name: Windows Terminating Lsass Process
id: 7ab3c319-a4e7-4211-9e8c-40a049d0dba6
version: 1
date: '2022-03-28'
author: Teoderick Contreras, Splunk
type: Anomaly
datamodel: []
description: This analytic is to detect a suspicious process terminating Lsass process. Lsass process is known to be a critical process
that is responsible for enforcing security policy system. This process was commonly targetted by threat actor or red teamer to gain privilege escalation or persistence
in the targeted machine because it handles credentials of the logon users. In this analytic we tried to detect a suspicious process having a granted access
PROCESS_TERMINATE to lsass process to modify or delete protected registrys. This technique was seen in doublezero malware that tries to wipe files and registry
in compromised hosts. This anomaly detection can be a good pivot of incident response for possible credential dumping or evading security policy in a host or network environment.
search: '`sysmon` EventCode=10 TargetImage=*lsass.exe GrantedAccess = 0x1
| stats count min(_time) as firstTime max(_time) as lastTime by SourceImage, TargetImage,
TargetProcessId, SourceProcessId, GrantedAccess CallTrace, Computer
| rename Computer as dest
| `security_content_ctime(firstTime)`
| `security_content_ctime(lastTime)`
| `windows_terminating_lsass_process_filter`'
how_to_implement: This search requires Sysmon Logs and a Sysmon configuration, which
includes EventCode 10 for lsass.exe. This search uses an input macro named `sysmon`.
We strongly recommend that you specify your environment-specific configurations
(index, source, sourcetype, etc.) for Windows Sysmon logs. Replace the macro definition
with configurations for your Splunk environment. The search also uses a post-filter
macro designed to filter out known false positives.
known_false_positives: unknown
references:
- https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2022/03/threat-advisory-doublezero.html
tags:
analytic_story:
- Double Zero Destructor
asset_type: Endpoint
cis20:
- CIS 3
- CIS 5
- CIS 16
confidence: 80
context:
- Source:Endpoint
- Stage:Defense Evasion
dataset:
- https://media.githubusercontent.com/media/splunk/attack_data/master/datasets/malware/doublezero_wiper/sysmon.log
impact: 80
kill_chain_phases: []
message: a process $SourceImage$ terminates Lsass process in $dest$
mitre_attack_id:
- T1562.001
- T1562
nist:
- DE.CM
observable:
- name: dest
type: Endpoint
role:
- Victim
- name: TargetImage
type: Process
role:
- Target
product:
- Splunk Enterprise
- Splunk Enterprise Security
- Splunk Cloud
required_fields:
- _time
- EventCode
- TargetImage
- CallTrace
- Computer
- TargetProcessId
- SourceImage
- SourceProcessId
- GrantedAccess
risk_score: 64
security_domain: endpoint