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Mailsniper Invoke functions	Email Collection, Local Email Collection	Endpoint	2021-05-19	true		TTP T1114 Email Collection Collection T1114.001 Local Email Collection Collection Splunk Enterprise Splunk Enterprise Security Splunk Cloud Endpoint Exploitation

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Description

This search is to detect known mailsniper.ps1 functions executed in a machine. This technique was seen in some attacker to harvest some sensitive e-mail in a compromised exchange server.

• Type: TTP
• Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk Cloud
• Datamodel: Endpoint
• Last Updated: 2021-05-19
• Author: Teoderick Contreras, Splunk
• ID: a36972c8-b894-11eb-9f78-acde48001122

ATT&CK

ID	Technique	Tactic
T1114	Email Collection	Collection
T1114.001	Local Email Collection	Collection

Search

`powershell` EventCode=4104 Message IN ("*Invoke-GlobalO365MailSearch*", "*Invoke-GlobalMailSearch*", "*Invoke-SelfSearch*", "*Invoke-PasswordSprayOWA*", "*Invoke-PasswordSprayEWS*","*Invoke-DomainHarvestOWA*", "*Invoke-UsernameHarvestOWA*","*Invoke-OpenInboxFinder*","*Invoke-InjectGEventAPI*","*Invoke-InjectGEvent*","*Invoke-SearchGmail*", "*Invoke-MonitorCredSniper*", "*Invoke-AddGmailRule*","*Invoke-PasswordSprayEAS*","*Invoke-UsernameHarvestEAS*") 
| stats count min(_time) as firstTime max(_time) as lastTime by EventCode Message ComputerName User 
| `security_content_ctime(firstTime)` 
| `security_content_ctime(lastTime)` 
| `mailsniper_invoke_functions_filter`

Associated Analytic Story

• Data Exfiltration

How To Implement

To successfully implement this search, you need to be ingesting logs with the powershell logs from your endpoints. make sure you enable needed registry to monitor this event.

Required field

• _time
• EventCode
• Message
• ComputerName
• User

Kill Chain Phase

• Exploitation

Known False Positives

unknown

RBA

Risk Score	Impact	Confidence	Message
72.0	90	80	mailsniper.ps1 functions Message executed on a ComputerName by user user.

Reference

• https://www.blackhillsinfosec.com/introducing-mailsniper-a-tool-for-searching-every-users-email-for-sensitive-data/

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/honeypots/casper/datasets1/windows-powershell.log

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