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splunk-security_content/detections/suspicious_wevtutil_usage.json
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{
"channel": "ESCU",
"confidence": "medium",
"correlation_rule": {
"notable": {
"nes_fields": "dest, process, user",
"rule_description": "wevtutil is the windows event log tool. This searches for wevtutil clearing the security or system logs.",
"rule_title": "Suspicious wevtutil Usage"
},
"risk": {
"risk_object": "dest",
"risk_object_type": [
"system"
],
"risk_score": 50
},
"suppress": {
"suppress_fields": "dest,process",
"suppress_period": "28800s"
}
},
"creation_date": "2017-02-17",
"data_metadata": {
"data_models": [
"Endpoint"
],
"data_source": [
"Endpoint Intel"
],
"providing_technologies": [
"Carbon Black Response",
"CrowdStrike Falcon",
"Sysmon",
"Tanium",
"Ziften"
]
},
"eli5": "This search looks for execution of wevtutil.exe with command-line arguments that indicate that it has been used to delete the setup, application, security, or system event logs. The search returns the number of times the behavior was observed, the first and last time it was seen, the host exhibiting the behavior and the user context of the process execution.",
"how_to_implement": "You must be ingesting data that records process activity from your hosts to populate the Endpoint data model in the Processes node. You must also be ingesting logs with both the process name and command line from your endpoints. The command-line arguments are mapped to the \"process\" field in the Endpoint data model.",
"known_false_positives": "The wevtutil.exe application is a legitimate Windows event log utility. Administrators may use it to manage Windows event logs.",
"maintainers": [
{
"company": "Splunk",
"email": "davidd@splunk.com",
"name": "David Dorsey"
}
],
"mappings": {
"cis20": [
"CIS 3",
"CIS 5",
"CIS 6"
],
"kill_chain_phases": [
"Actions on Objectives"
],
"mitre_attack": [
"Defense Evasion",
"Indicator Removal on Host"
],
"nist": [
"DE.DP",
"PR.IP",
"PR.PT",
"PR.AC",
"PR.AT",
"DE.AE"
]
},
"modification_date": "2019-02-28",
"original_authors": [
{
"company": "Splunk",
"email": "davidd@splunk.com",
"name": "David Dorsey"
}
],
"scheduling": {
"cron_schedule": "0 * * * *",
"earliest_time": "-70m@m",
"latest_time": "-10m@m"
},
"search": "| tstats `summariesonly` values(Processes.process) as process min(_time) as firstTime max(_time) as lastTime from datamodel=Endpoint.Processes where Processes.process_name = wevtutil.exe Processes.process=\"*cl*\" (Processes.process=\"*System*\" OR Processes.process=\"*Security*\" OR Processes.process=\"*Setup*\" OR Processes.process=\"*Application*\") by Processes.process_name Processes.parent_process_name Processes.dest Processes.user| `drop_dm_object_name(Processes)` | `ctime(firstTime)` |`ctime(lastTime)`",
"search_description": "The wevtutil.exe application is the windows event log utility. This searches for wevtutil.exe with parameters for clearing the application, security, setup, or system event logs.",
"search_id": "2827c0fd-e1be-4868-ae25-59d28e0f9d4f",
"search_name": "Suspicious wevtutil Usage",
"search_type": "detection",
"security_domain": "endpoint",
"spec_version": 1,
"version": "2.0"
}