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splunk-security_content/detections/endpoint/windows_process_injection_remote_thread.yml
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name: Windows Process Injection Remote Thread
id: 8a618ade-ca8f-4d04-b972-2d526ba59924
version: 1
date: '2023-06-15'
author: Teoderick Contreras, Splunk
status: production
type: TTP
description: The following analytic identifies a suspicious remote thread execution
in some process being abused by threat actor and malware like qakbot. Qakbot is
one of the malware using this technique to load its malicious dll module or malicious
code in the targeted host. This TTP can be a good pivot to verify what is the behavior
of the targeted Image process after this detection trigger. look for network connection,
child process execution, file access and many more that helps to verify the indication
of malware infection.
data_source:
- Sysmon Event ID 8
search: '`sysmon` EventCode=8 TargetImage IN ("*\\Taskmgr.exe", "*\\calc.exe", "*\\notepad.exe",
"*\\rdpclip.exe", "*\\explorer.exe", "*\\wermgr.exe", "*\\ping.exe", "*\\OneDriveSetup.exe",
"*\\dxdiag.exe", "*\\mobsync.exe", "*\\msra.exe", "*\\xwizard.exe","*\\cmd.exe", "*\\powershell.exe") | stats count
min(_time) as firstTime max(_time) as lastTime by TargetImage TargetProcessId SourceProcessId EventCode
StartAddress SourceImage dest | `security_content_ctime(firstTime)` | `security_content_ctime(lastTime)`
| `windows_process_injection_remote_thread_filter`'
how_to_implement: To successfully implement this search, you must be ingesting data
that records process activity from your hosts like remote thread EventCode=8 of
sysmon. If you are using Sysmon, you must have at least version 6.0.4 of the Sysmon
TA.
known_false_positives: unknown
references:
- https://twitter.com/pr0xylife/status/1585612370441031680?s=46&t=Dc3CJi4AnM-8rNoacLbScg
- https://thedfirreport.com/2023/06/12/a-truly-graceful-wipe-out/
tags:
analytic_story:
- Qakbot
- Graceful Wipe Out Attack
- Warzone RAT
asset_type: 80
confidence: 80
impact: 80
message: process $SourceImage$ create a remote thread to process $TargetImage$ on
host $dest$
mitre_attack_id:
- T1055
- T1055.002
observable:
- name: dest
type: Hostname
role:
- Victim
- name: SourceImage
type: Process
role:
- Attacker
- name: TargetImage
type: Process
role:
- Target
product:
- Splunk Enterprise
- Splunk Enterprise Security
- Splunk Cloud
required_fields:
- _time
- SourceImage
- TargetImage
- TargetProcessId
- SourceProcessId
- StartAddress
- EventCode
- dest
- signature
- TargetProcessGuid
- SourceProcessGuid
- StartAddress
risk_score: 64
security_domain: endpoint
tests:
- name: True Positive Test
attack_data:
- data: https://media.githubusercontent.com/media/splunk/attack_data/master/datasets/malware/qakbot/qbot_wermgr2/sysmon_wermgr2.log
source: XmlWinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational
sourcetype: xmlwineventlog
update_timestamp: true