splunk-security_content/dist/api/stories.json

{"stories": [{"name": "IcedID", "id": "1d2cc747-63d7-49a9-abb8-93aa36305603", "version": 1, "date": "2021-07-29", "author": "Teoderick Contreras, Splunk", "description": "Leverage searches that allow you to detect and investigate unusual activities that might relate to the IcedID banking trojan, including looking for file writes associated with its payload, process injection, shellcode execution and data collection.", "narrative": "IcedId banking trojan campaigns targeting banks and other vertical sectors.This malware is known in Microsoft Windows OS targetting browser such as firefox and chrom to steal banking information. It is also known to its unique payload downloaded in C2 where it can be a .png file that hides the core shellcode bot using steganography technique or gzip dat file that contains \"license.dat\" which is the actual core icedid bot.", "references": ["https://threatpost.com/icedid-banking-trojan-surges-emotet/165314/", "https://app.any.run/tasks/48414a33-3d66-4a46-afe5-c2003bb55ccf/"], "tags": {"name": "IcedID", "analytic_story": "IcedID", "category": ["Malware"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1087.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Domain Account", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Discovery"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["BRONZE BUTLER", "Chimera", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN6", "Fox Kitten", "Ke3chang", "MuddyWater", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Poseidon Group", "Sandworm Team", "Turla", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1087", "mitre_attack_technique": "Account Discovery", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Discovery"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1059", "mitre_attack_technique": "Command and Scripting Interpreter", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "APT37", "APT39", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN5", "FIN6", "FIN7", "Fox Kitten", "Ke3chang", "OilRig", "Stealth Falcon", "Whitefly", "Windigo"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1059.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Windows Command Shell", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT18", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT37", "APT38", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "Dark Caracal", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Higaisa", "Honeybee", "Indrik Spider", "Ke3chang", "Lazarus Group", "Machete", "Magic Hound", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Rancor", "Sandworm Team", "Silence", "Sowbug", "Suckfly", "TA505", "TA551", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-1314", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "Wizard Spider", "ZIRCONIUM", "admin@338", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1055", "mitre_attack_technique": "Process Injection", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "APT37", "APT41", "Cobalt Group", "Honeybee", "Kimsuky", "Operation Wocao", "PLATINUM", "Sharpshooter", "Silence", "Turla"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1562.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Disable or Modify Tools", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "BRONZE BUTLER", "FIN6", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Indrik Spider", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "MuddyWater", "Night Dragon", "Putter Panda", "Rocke", "TeamTNT", "Turla", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1562", "mitre_attack_technique": "Impair Defenses", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1204", "mitre_attack_technique": "User Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1204.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Malicious File", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT-C-36", "APT12", "APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT30", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT38", "APT39", "Ajax Security Team", "Andariel", "BRONZE BUTLER", "BlackTech", "Cobalt Group", "Dark Caracal", "DarkHydrus", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Elderwood", "FIN4", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Ferocious Kitten", "Frankenstein", "Gallmaker", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Higaisa", "Inception", "IndigoZebra", "Indrik Spider", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Leviathan", "Machete", "Magic Hound", "Mofang", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Naikon", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "PLATINUM", "PROMETHIUM", "Patchwork", "RTM", "Rancor", "Sandworm Team", "Sharpshooter", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "TA459", "TA505", "TA551", "The White Company", "Tonto Team", "Transparent Tribe", "Tropic Trooper", "Whitefly", "Windshift", "Wizard Spider", "admin@338", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1548.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Bypass User Account Control", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "APT37", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Cobalt Group", "Evilnum", "Honeybee", "MuddyWater", "Patchwork", "Threat Group-3390"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1548", "mitre_attack_technique": "Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1112", "mitre_attack_technique": "Modify Registry", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "APT38", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN8", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Honeybee", "Kimsuky", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Silence", "Threat Group-3390", "Turla", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1560.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Archive via Utility", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Collection"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT33", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Chimera", "CopyKittens", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "GALLIUM", "Gallmaker", "HAFNIUM", "Ke3chang", "Magic Hound", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Operation Wocao", "Sowbug", "Turla", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1560", "mitre_attack_technique": "Archive Collected Data", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Collection"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT32", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN6", "Honeybee", "Ke3chang", "Lazarus Group", "Leviathan", "Patchwork", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1218", "mitre_attack_technique": "Signed Binary Proxy Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1218.005", "mitre_attack_technique": "Mshta", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "FIN7", "Inception", "Kimsuky", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Sidewinder", "TA551"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1482", "mitre_attack_technique": "Domain Trust Discovery", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Discovery"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "Chimera", "FIN8"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1566", "mitre_attack_technique": "Phishing", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Initial Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Dragonfly", "GOLD SOUTHFIELD"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1566.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Spearphishing Attachment", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Initial Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT-C-36", "APT1", "APT12", "APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT30", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "Ajax Security Team", "Andariel", "BRONZE BUTLER", "BlackTech", "Cobalt Group", "DarkHydrus", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Elderwood", "FIN4", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Ferocious Kitten", "Frankenstein", "Gallmaker", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Higaisa", "Inception", "IndigoZebra", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Leviathan", "Machete", "Mofang", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Naikon", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "PLATINUM", "Patchwork", "RTM", "Rancor", "Sandworm Team", "Sharpshooter", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "TA459", "TA505", "TA551", "The White Company", "Tonto Team", "Transparent Tribe", "Tropic Trooper", "Windshift", "Wizard Spider", "admin@338", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1547.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT18", "APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Cobalt Group", "Dark Caracal", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Higaisa", "Honeybee", "Inception", "Ke3chang", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Leviathan", "Magic Hound", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Naikon", "PROMETHIUM", "Patchwork", "Putter Panda", "RTM", "Rocke", "Sharpshooter", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "Windshift", "Wizard Spider", "ZIRCONIUM"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1547", "mitre_attack_technique": "Boot or Logon Autostart Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1218.010", "mitre_attack_technique": "Regsvr32", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "Blue Mockingbird", "Cobalt Group", "Deep Panda", "Inception", "Leviathan", "TA551", "WIRTE"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1218.011", "mitre_attack_technique": "Rundll32", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT38", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Carbanak", "CopyKittens", "Gamaredon Group", "HAFNIUM", "MuddyWater", "Sandworm Team", "TA505", "TA551"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1053", "mitre_attack_technique": "Scheduled Task/Job", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1005", "mitre_attack_technique": "Data from Local System", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Collection"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT37", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "Andariel", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Dark Caracal", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Dust Storm", "FIN6", "FIN7", "Fox Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "Gamaredon Group", "Honeybee", "Inception", "Ke3chang", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Sandworm Team", "Stealth Falcon", "Threat Group-3390", "Turla", "Windigo", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1053.005", "mitre_attack_technique": "Scheduled Task", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT-C-36", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "CostaRicto", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "Gamaredon Group", "Higaisa", "Machete", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Naikon", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Rancor", "Silence", "Stealth Falcon", "TEMP.Veles", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Collection", "Defense Evasion", "Discovery", "Execution", "Initial Access", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Exploitation", "Reconnaissance"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Account Discovery With Net App - Rule", "ESCU - CHCP Command Execution - Rule", "ESCU - CMD Carry Out String Command Parameter - Rule", "ESCU - Create Remote Thread In Shell Application - Rule", "ESCU - Disable Schedule Task - Rule", "ESCU - Drop IcedID License dat - Rule", "ESCU - Eventvwr UAC Bypass - Rule", "ESCU - FodHelper UAC Bypass - Rule", "ESCU - IcedID Exfiltrated Archived File Creation - Rule", "ESCU - Mshta spawning Rundll32 OR Regsvr32 Process - Rule", "ESCU - NLTest Domain Trust Discovery - Rule", "ESCU - Office Application Spawn Regsvr32 process - Rule", "ESCU - Office Application Spawn rundll32 process - Rule", "ESCU - Office Document Executing Macro Code - Rule", "ESCU - Office Product Spawning MSHTA - Rule", "ESCU - Registry Keys Used For Persistence - Rule", "ESCU - Regsvr32 with Known Silent Switch Cmdline - Rule", "ESCU - Rundll32 Create Remote Thread To A Process - Rule", "ESCU - Rundll32 CreateRemoteThread In Browser - Rule", "ESCU - Rundll32 DNSQuery - Rule", "ESCU - Rundll32 Process Creating Exe Dll Files - Rule", "ESCU - Schedule Task with Rundll32 Command Trigger - Rule", "ESCU - Sqlite Module In Temp Folder - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious IcedID Rundll32 Cmdline - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious Rundll32 PluginInit - Rule", "ESCU - WinEvent Scheduled Task Created Within Public Path - Rule", "ESCU - WinEvent Windows Task Scheduler Event Action Started - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": ["ESCU - Previously seen command line arguments"], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Teoderick Contreras"}, {"name": "Active Directory Discovery", "id": "8460679c-2b21-463e-b381-b813417c32f2", "version": 1, "date": "2021-08-20", "author": "Mauricio Velazco, Splunk", "description": "Monitor for activities and techniques associated with Discovery and Reconnaissance within with Active Directory environments.", "narrative": "Discovery consists of techniques an adversay uses to gain knowledge about an internal environment or network. These techniques provide adversaries with situational awareness and allows them to have the necessary information before deciding how to act or who/what to target next.\\\nOnce an attacker obtains an initial foothold in an Active Directory environment, she is forced to engage in Discovery techniques in the initial phases of a breach to better understand and navigate the target network. Some examples include but are not limited to enumerating domain users, domain admins, computers, domain controllers, network shares, group policy objects, domain trusts, etc.", "references": ["https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0007/", "https://adsecurity.org/?p=2535", "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1087/001/", "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1087/002/", "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1087/003/", "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1482/", "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1201/", "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1069/001/", "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1069/002/", "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1018/", "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1049/", "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1033/"], "tags": {"name": "Active Directory Discovery", "analytic_story": "Active Directory Discovery", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1087.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Domain Account", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Discovery"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["BRONZE BUTLER", "Chimera", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN6", "Fox Kitten", "Ke3chang", "MuddyWater", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Poseidon Group", "Sandworm Team", "Turla", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1087", "mitre_attack_technique": "Account Discovery", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Discovery"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1018", "mitre_attack_technique": "Remote System Discovery", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Discovery"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT39", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Chimera", "Deep Panda", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN5", "FIN6", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "GALLIUM", "Indrik Spider", "Ke3chang", "Leafminer", "Naikon", "Operation Wocao", "Rocke", "Sandworm Team", "Silence", "Threat Group-3390", "Turla", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1069", "mitre_attack_technique": "Permission Groups Discovery", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Discovery"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "APT3", "TA505"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1069.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Domain Groups", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Discovery"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Dragonfly 2.0", "Inception", "Ke3chang", "OilRig", "Turla"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1482", "mitre_attack_technique": "Domain Trust Discovery", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Discovery"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "Chimera", "FIN8"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1201", "mitre_attack_technique": "Password Policy Discovery", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Discovery"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Chimera", "OilRig", "Turla"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1069.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Local Groups", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Discovery"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Chimera", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Tonto Team", "Turla", "admin@338"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1033", "mitre_attack_technique": "System Owner/User Discovery", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Discovery"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT3", "APT32", "APT37", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "Chimera", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "Gamaredon Group", "Lazarus Group", "Magic Hound", "MuddyWater", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Sandworm Team", "Sidewinder", "Stealth Falcon", "Tropic Trooper", "Windshift", "Wizard Spider", "ZIRCONIUM"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1087.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Local Account", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Discovery"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT3", "APT32", "Chimera", "Fox Kitten", "Ke3chang", "OilRig", "Poseidon Group", "Threat Group-3390", "Turla", "admin@338"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1049", "mitre_attack_technique": "System Network Connections Discovery", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Discovery"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT3", "APT32", "APT38", "APT41", "Andariel", "BackdoorDiplomacy", "Chimera", "GALLIUM", "Ke3chang", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Poseidon Group", "Sandworm Team", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "admin@338", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1016", "mitre_attack_technique": "System Network Configuration Discovery", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Discovery"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT19", "APT3", "APT32", "APT41", "Chimera", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "Higaisa", "Ke3chang", "Lazarus Group", "Magic Hound", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Naikon", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Sandworm Team", "Sidewinder", "Stealth Falcon", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "Wizard Spider", "ZIRCONIUM", "admin@338", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1016.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Internet Connection Discovery", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Discovery"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "Turla"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1558.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Kerberoasting", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "FIN7", "Operation Wocao", "Wizard Spider"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access", "Discovery"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Exploitation", "Reconnaissance"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - AdsiSearcher Account Discovery - Rule", "ESCU - Domain Account Discovery with Dsquery - Rule", "ESCU - Domain Account Discovery With Net App - Rule", "ESCU - Domain Account Discovery with Wmic - Rule", "ESCU - Domain Controller Discovery with Nltest - Rule", "ESCU - Domain Controller Discovery with Wmic - Rule", "ESCU - Domain Group Discovery with Adsisearcher - Rule", "ESCU - Domain Group Discovery With Dsquery - Rule", "ESCU - Domain Group Discovery With Net - Rule", "ESCU - Domain Group Discovery With Wmic - Rule", "ESCU - DSQuery Domain Discovery - Rule", "ESCU - Elevated Group Discovery With Net - Rule", "ESCU - Elevated Group Discovery with PowerView - Rule", "ESCU - Elevated Group Discovery With Wmic - Rule", "ESCU - Get ADDefaultDomainPasswordPolicy with Powershell - Rule", "ESCU - Get ADDefaultDomainPasswordPolicy with Powershell Script Block - Rule", "ESCU - Get ADUser with PowerShell - Rule", "ESCU - Get ADUser with PowerShell Script Block - Rule", "ESCU - Get ADUserResultantPasswordPolicy with Powershell - Rule", "ESCU - Get ADUserResultantPasswordPolicy with Powershell Script Block - Rule", "ESCU - Get DomainPolicy with Powershell - Rule", "ESCU - Get DomainPolicy with Powershell Script Block - Rule", "ESCU - Get-DomainTrust with PowerShell - Rule", "ESCU - Get-DomainTrust with PowerShell Script Block - Rule", "ESCU - Get DomainUser with PowerShell - Rule", "ESCU - Get DomainUser with PowerShell Script Block - Rule", "ESCU - Get-ForestTrust with PowerShell - Rule", "ESCU - Get-ForestTrust with PowerShell Script Block - Rule", "ESCU - Get WMIObject Group Discovery - Rule", "ESCU - Get WMIObject Group Discovery with Script Block Logging - Rule", "ESCU - GetAdComputer with PowerShell - Rule", "ESCU - GetAdComputer with PowerShell Script Block - Rule", "ESCU - GetAdGroup with PowerShell - Rule", "ESCU - GetAdGroup with PowerShell Script Block - Rule", "ESCU - GetCurrent User with PowerShell - Rule", "ESCU - GetCurrent User with PowerShell Script Block - Rule", "ESCU - GetDomainComputer with PowerShell - Rule", "ESCU - GetDomainComputer with PowerShell Script Block - Rule", "ESCU - GetDomainController with PowerShell - Rule", "ESCU - GetDomainController with PowerShell Script Block - Rule", "ESCU - GetDomainGroup with PowerShell - Rule", "ESCU - GetDomainGroup with PowerShell Script Block - Rule", "ESCU - GetLocalUser with PowerShell - Rule", "ESCU - GetLocalUser with PowerShell Script Block - Rule", "ESCU - GetNetTcpconnection with PowerShell - Rule", "ESCU - GetNetTcpconnection with PowerShell Script Block - Rule", "ESCU - GetWmiObject Ds Computer with PowerShell - Rule", "ESCU - GetWmiObject Ds Computer with PowerShell Script Block - Rule", "ESCU - GetWmiObject Ds Group with PowerShell - Rule", "ESCU - GetWmiObject Ds Group with PowerShell Script Block - Rule", "ESCU - GetWmiObject DS User with PowerShell - Rule", "ESCU - GetWmiObject DS User with PowerShell Script Block - Rule", "ESCU - GetWmiObject User Account with PowerShell - Rule", "ESCU - GetWmiObject User Account with PowerShell Script Block - Rule", "ESCU - Local Account Discovery with Net - Rule", "ESCU - Local Account Discovery With Wmic - Rule", "ESCU - Net Localgroup Discovery - Rule", "ESCU - Network Connection Discovery With Arp - Rule", "ESCU - Network Connection Discovery With Net - Rule", "ESCU - Network Connection Discovery With Netstat - Rule", "ESCU - Network Discovery Using Route Windows App - Rule", "ESCU - NLTest Domain Trust Discovery - Rule", "ESCU - Password Policy Discovery with Net - Rule", "ESCU - PowerShell Get LocalGroup Discovery - Rule", "ESCU - Powershell Get LocalGroup Discovery with Script Block Logging - Rule", "ESCU - Remote System Discovery with Adsisearcher - Rule", "ESCU - Remote System Discovery with Dsquery - Rule", "ESCU - Remote System Discovery with Net - Rule", "ESCU - Remote System Discovery with Wmic - Rule", "ESCU - ServicePrincipalNames Discovery with PowerShell - Rule", "ESCU - ServicePrincipalNames Discovery with SetSPN - Rule", "ESCU - System User Discovery With Query - Rule", "ESCU - System User Discovery With Whoami - Rule", "ESCU - User Discovery With Env Vars PowerShell - Rule", "ESCU - User Discovery With Env Vars PowerShell Script Block - Rule", "ESCU - Wmic Group Discovery - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Mauricio Velazco"}, {"name": "Active Directory Kerberos Attacks", "id": "38b8cf16-8461-11ec-ade1-acde48001122", "version": 1, "date": "2022-02-02", "author": "Mauricio Velazco, Splunk", "description": "Monitor for activities and techniques associated with Kerberos based attacks within with Active Directory environments.", "narrative": "Kerberos, initially named after Cerberus, the three-headed dog in Greek mythology, is a network authentication protocol that allows computers and users to prove their identity through a trusted third-party. This trusted third-party issues Kerberos tickets using symmetric encryption to allow users access to services and network resources based on their privilege level. Kerberos is the default authentication protocol used on Windows Active Directory networks since the introduction of Windows Server 2003. With Kerberos being the backbone of Windows authentication, it is commonly abused by adversaries across the different phases of a breach including initial access, privilege escalation, defense evasion, credential access, lateral movement, etc.\\ This Analytic Story groups detection use cases in which the Kerberos protocol is abused. Defenders can leverage these analytics to detect and hunt for adversaries engaging in Kerberos based attacks.", "references": ["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerberos_(protocol)", "https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-kile/2a32282e-dd48-4ad9-a542-609804b02cc9", "https://m0chan.github.io/2019/07/31/How-To-Attack-Kerberos-101.html", "https://stealthbits.com/blog/cracking-active-directory-passwords-with-as-rep-roasting/", "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1558/003/", "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1550/003/", "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1558/004/"], "tags": {"name": "Active Directory Kerberos Attacks", "analytic_story": "Active Directory Kerberos Attacks", "category": ["Adversary Tactics", "Account Compromise", "Lateral Movement", "Privilege Escalation"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1558", "mitre_attack_technique": "Steal or Forge Kerberos Tickets", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1558.004", "mitre_attack_technique": "AS-REP Roasting", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1558.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Kerberoasting", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "FIN7", "Operation Wocao", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1550", "mitre_attack_technique": "Use Alternate Authentication Material", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Lateral Movement"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1550.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Pass the Ticket", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Lateral Movement"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "APT32", "BRONZE BUTLER"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1110.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Password Spraying", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT29", "APT33", "Chimera", "Lazarus Group", "Leafminer", "Sandworm Team", "Silent Librarian"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1110", "mitre_attack_technique": "Brute Force", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT38", "APT39", "DarkVishnya", "FIN5", "Fox Kitten", "OilRig", "Turla"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access", "Defense Evasion", "Lateral Movement"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Disabled Kerberos Pre-Authentication Discovery With Get-ADUser - Rule", "ESCU - Disabled Kerberos Pre-Authentication Discovery With PowerView - Rule", "ESCU - Kerberoasting spn request with RC4 encryption - Rule", "ESCU - Kerberos Pre-Authentication Flag Disabled in UserAccountControl - Rule", "ESCU - Kerberos Pre-Authentication Flag Disabled with PowerShell - Rule", "ESCU - Mimikatz PassTheTicket CommandLine Parameters - Rule", "ESCU - Multiple Users Failing To Authenticate From Host Using Kerberos - Rule", "ESCU - Rubeus Command Line Parameters - Rule", "ESCU - Rubeus Kerberos Ticket Exports Through Winlogon Access - Rule", "ESCU - ServicePrincipalNames Discovery with PowerShell - Rule", "ESCU - ServicePrincipalNames Discovery with SetSPN - Rule", "ESCU - Unusual Number of Kerberos Service Tickets Requested - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Disabled Users Failing To Authenticate Kerberos - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Invalid Users Failed Authentication via Kerberos - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Mauricio Velazco"}, {"name": "Active Directory Lateral Movement", "id": "399d65dc-1f08-499b-a259-aad9051f38ad", "version": 3, "date": "2021-12-09", "author": "David Dorsey, Mauricio Velazco Splunk", "description": "Detect and investigate tactics, techniques, and procedures around how attackers move laterally within an Active Directory environment. Since lateral movement is often a necessary step in a breach, it is important for cyber defenders to deploy detection coverage.", "narrative": "Once attackers gain a foothold within an enterprise, they will seek to expand their accesses and leverage techniques that facilitate lateral movement. Attackers will often spend quite a bit of time and effort moving laterally. Because lateral movement renders an attacker the most vulnerable to detection, it's an excellent focus for detection and investigation.\\\nIndications of lateral movement in an Active Directory network can include the abuse of system utilities (such as `psexec.exe`), unauthorized use of remote desktop services, `file/admin$` shares, WMI, PowerShell, Service Control Manager, the DCOM protocol, WinRM or the abuse of scheduled tasks. Organizations must be extra vigilant in detecting lateral movement techniques and look for suspicious activity in and around high-value strategic network assets, such as Active Directory, which are often considered the primary target or \"crown jewels\" to a persistent threat actor.\\\nAn adversary can use lateral movement for multiple purposes, including remote execution of tools, pivoting to additional systems, obtaining access to specific information or files, access to additional credentials, exfiltrating data, or delivering a secondary effect. Adversaries may use legitimate credentials alongside inherent network and operating-system functionality to remotely connect to other systems and remain under the radar of network defenders.\\\nIf there is evidence of lateral movement, it is imperative for analysts to collect evidence of the associated offending hosts. For example, an attacker might leverage host A to gain access to host B. From there, the attacker may try to move laterally to host C. In this example, the analyst should gather as much information as possible from all three hosts. \\\n It is also important to collect authentication logs for each host, to ensure that the offending accounts are well-documented. Analysts should account for all processes to ensure that the attackers did not install unauthorized software.", "references": ["https://www.fireeye.com/blog/executive-perspective/2015/08/malware_lateral_move.html", "http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=videos/derbycon7/t405-hunting-lateral-movement-for-fun-and-profit-mauricio-velazco"], "tags": {"name": "Active Directory Lateral Movement", "analytic_story": "Active Directory Lateral Movement", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1550", "mitre_attack_technique": "Use Alternate Authentication Material", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Lateral Movement"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1550.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Pass the Hash", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Lateral Movement"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT28", "APT32", "Chimera", "GALLIUM", "Kimsuky", "Night Dragon"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1021", "mitre_attack_technique": "Remote Services", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Lateral Movement"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1021.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "SMB/Windows Admin Shares", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Lateral Movement"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT3", "APT32", "APT39", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Deep Panda", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Ke3chang", "Lazarus Group", "Operation Wocao", "Orangeworm", "Sandworm Team", "Threat Group-1314", "Turla", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1569", "mitre_attack_technique": "System Services", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1569.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Service Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "FIN6", "Honeybee", "Ke3chang", "Operation Wocao", "Silence", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1021.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Distributed Component Object Model", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Lateral Movement"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1047", "mitre_attack_technique": "Windows Management Instrumentation", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "APT32", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Deep Panda", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "Indrik Spider", "Lazarus Group", "Leviathan", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Naikon", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Sandworm Team", "Stealth Falcon", "Threat Group-3390", "Windshift", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1543.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Windows Service", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT3", "APT32", "APT38", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Carbanak", "Cobalt Group", "DarkVishnya", "FIN7", "Honeybee", "Ke3chang", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "PROMETHIUM", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1021.006", "mitre_attack_technique": "Windows Remote Management", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Lateral Movement"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "Chimera", "Threat Group-3390", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1053.005", "mitre_attack_technique": "Scheduled Task", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT-C-36", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "CostaRicto", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "Gamaredon Group", "Higaisa", "Machete", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Naikon", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Rancor", "Silence", "Stealth Falcon", "TEMP.Veles", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1059.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "PowerShell", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "CopyKittens", "DarkHydrus", "DarkVishnya", "Deep Panda", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "GOLD SOUTHFIELD", "Gallmaker", "Gorgon Group", "HAFNIUM", "Inception", "Indrik Spider", "Kimsuky", "Leviathan", "Magic Hound", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Poseidon Group", "Sandworm Team", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "Stealth Falcon", "TA459", "TA505", "TEMP.Veles", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Thrip", "Tonto Team", "Turla", "WIRTE", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1053", "mitre_attack_technique": "Scheduled Task/Job", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1053.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "At (Windows)", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT18", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Threat Group-3390"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1543", "mitre_attack_technique": "Create or Modify System Process", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1574.011", "mitre_attack_technique": "Services Registry Permissions Weakness", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1021.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Remote Desktop Protocol", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Lateral Movement"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT3", "APT39", "APT41", "Axiom", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Leviathan", "OilRig", "Patchwork", "Silence", "TEMP.Veles", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1078", "mitre_attack_technique": "Valid Accounts", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Initial Access", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT18", "APT28", "APT29", "APT33", "APT39", "APT41", "Carbanak", "Chimera", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN4", "FIN5", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "GALLIUM", "Leviathan", "Night Dragon", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "PittyTiger", "Sandworm Team", "Silence", "Silent Librarian", "Suckfly", "TEMP.Veles", "Threat Group-3390", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Execution", "Initial Access", "Lateral Movement", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint", "Network_Traffic"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Exploitation", "Reconnaissance"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Detect Activity Related to Pass the Hash Attacks - Rule", "ESCU - Detect PsExec With accepteula Flag - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Renamed PSExec - Rule", "ESCU - Executable File Written in Administrative SMB Share - Rule", "ESCU - Impacket Lateral Movement Commandline Parameters - Rule", "ESCU - Interactive Session on Remote Endpoint with PowerShell - Rule", "ESCU - Mmc LOLBAS Execution Process Spawn - Rule", "ESCU - Possible Lateral Movement PowerShell Spawn - Rule", "ESCU - Remote Process Instantiation via DCOM and PowerShell - Rule", "ESCU - Remote Process Instantiation via DCOM and PowerShell Script Block - Rule", "ESCU - Remote Process Instantiation via WinRM and PowerShell - Rule", "ESCU - Remote Process Instantiation via WinRM and PowerShell Script Block - Rule", "ESCU - Remote Process Instantiation via WinRM and Winrs - Rule", "ESCU - Remote Process Instantiation via WMI - Rule", "ESCU - Remote Process Instantiation via WMI and PowerShell - Rule", "ESCU - Remote Process Instantiation via WMI and PowerShell Script Block - Rule", "ESCU - Scheduled Task Creation on Remote Endpoint using At - Rule", "ESCU - Scheduled Task Initiation on Remote Endpoint - Rule", "ESCU - Schtasks scheduling job on remote system - Rule", "ESCU - Services LOLBAS Execution Process Spawn - Rule", "ESCU - Short Lived Scheduled Task - Rule", "ESCU - Svchost LOLBAS Execution Process Spawn - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Service Created With Suspicious Service Path - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Service Created Within Public Path - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Service Creation on Remote Endpoint - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Service Creation Using Registry Entry - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Service Initiation on Remote Endpoint - Rule", "ESCU - WinEvent Scheduled Task Created Within Public Path - Rule", "ESCU - Wmiprsve LOLBAS Execution Process Spawn - Rule", "ESCU - Wsmprovhost LOLBAS Execution Process Spawn - Rule", "ESCU - Randomly Generated Scheduled Task Name - Rule", "ESCU - Randomly Generated Windows Service Name - Rule", "ESCU - Remote Desktop Process Running On System - Rule", "ESCU - Unusual Number of Computer Service Tickets Requested - Rule", "ESCU - Unusual Number of Remote Endpoint Authentication Events - Rule", "ESCU - Remote Desktop Network Traffic - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Investigate Successful Remote Desktop Authentications - Response Task"], "baseline_names": ["ESCU - Identify Systems Creating Remote Desktop Traffic", "ESCU - Identify Systems Receiving Remote Desktop Traffic", "ESCU - Identify Systems Using Remote Desktop"], "author_company": "Mauricio Velazco Splunk", "author_name": "David Dorsey"}, {"name": "Active Directory Password Spraying", "id": "3de109da-97d2-11eb-8b6a-acde48001122", "version": 1, "date": "2021-04-07", "author": "Mauricio Velazco, Splunk", "description": "Monitor for activities and techniques associated with Password Spraying attacks within Active Directory environments.", "narrative": "In a password spraying attack, adversaries leverage one or a small list of commonly used / popular passwords against a large volume of usernames to acquire valid account credentials. Unlike a Brute Force attack that targets a specific user or small group of users with a large number of passwords, password spraying follows the opposite aproach and increases the chances of obtaining valid credentials while avoiding account lockouts. This allows adversaries to remain undetected if the target organization does not have the proper monitoring and detection controls in place.\\\nPassword Spraying can be leveraged by adversaries across different stages in an attack. It can be used to obtain an iniial access to an environment but can also be used to escalate privileges when access has been already achieved. In some scenarios, this technique capitalizes on a security policy most organizations implement, password rotation. As enterprise users change their passwords, it is possible some pick predictable, seasonal passwords such as `$CompanyNameWinter`, `Summer2021`, etc.\\\nSpecifically, this Analytic Story is focused on detecting possible Password Spraying attacks against Active Directory environments leveraging Windows Event Logs in the `Account Logon` and `Logon/Logoff` Advanced Audit Policy categories. It presents 9 detection analytics which can aid defenders in identifyng instances where one source user, source host or source process attempts to authenticate against a target or targets using a high, unsual, number of unique users. A user, host or process attempting to authenticate with multiple users is not common behavior for legitimate systems and should be monitored by security teams. Possible false positive scenarios include but are not limited to vulnerability scanners, remote administration tools, multi-user systems and missconfigured systems. These should be easily spotted when first implementing the detection and addded to an allow list or lookup table. The presented detections can also be used in Threat Hunting exercises.", "references": ["https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1110/003/", "https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2020/04/23/protecting-organization-password-spray-attacks/", "https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2012-r2-and-2012/dn452415(v=ws.11)"], "tags": {"name": "Active Directory Password Spraying", "analytic_story": "Active Directory Password Spraying", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1110.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Password Spraying", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT29", "APT33", "Chimera", "Lazarus Group", "Leafminer", "Sandworm Team", "Silent Librarian"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1110", "mitre_attack_technique": "Brute Force", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT38", "APT39", "DarkVishnya", "FIN5", "Fox Kitten", "OilRig", "Turla"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "datamodels": [], "kill_chain_phases": ["Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Multiple Invalid Users Failing To Authenticate From Host Using NTLM - Rule", "ESCU - Multiple Users Failing To Authenticate From Host Using Kerberos - Rule", "ESCU - Multiple Users Failing To Authenticate From Host Using NTLM - Rule", "ESCU - Multiple Users Failing To Authenticate From Process - Rule", "ESCU - Multiple Users Remotely Failing To Authenticate From Host - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Disabled Users Failing To Authenticate Kerberos - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Invalid Users Failed Authentication via Kerberos - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Users Authenticate Using Explicit Credentials - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Mauricio Velazco"}, {"name": "Apache Struts Vulnerability", "id": "2dcfd6a2-e7d2-4873-b6ba-adaf819d2a1e", "version": 1, "date": "2018-12-06", "author": "Rico Valdez, Splunk", "description": "Detect and investigate activities--such as unusually long `Content-Type` length, suspicious java classes and web servers executing suspicious processes--consistent with attempts to exploit Apache Struts vulnerabilities.", "narrative": "In March of 2017, a remote code-execution vulnerability in the Jakarta Multipart parser in Apache Struts, a widely used open-source framework for creating Java web applications, was disclosed and assigned to CVE-2017-5638. About two months later, hackers exploited the flaw to carry out the world's <a href=https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2017/09/07/nations-biggest-hacks-and-data-breaches-millions/644311001/> 5th largest data breach</a>. The target, credit giant Equifax, <a href=https://money.cnn.com/2017/09/16/technology/equifax-breach-security-hole/index.html>told investigators</a> that it had become aware of the vulnerability two months before the attack. \\\nThe exploit involved manipulating the `Content-Type HTTP` header to execute commands embedded in the header.\\\nThis Analytic Story contains two different searches that help to identify activity that may be related to this issue. The first search looks for characteristics of the `Content-Type` header consistent with attempts to exploit the vulnerability. This should be a relatively pertinent indicator, as the `Content-Type` header is generally consistent and does not have a large degree of variation.\\\nThe second search looks for the execution of various commands typically entered on the command shell when an attacker first lands on a system. These commands are not generally executed on web servers during the course of day-to-day operation, but they may be used when the system is undergoing maintenance or troubleshooting.\\\nFirst, it is helpful is to understand how often the notable event is generated, as well as the commonalities in some of these events. This may help determine whether this is a common occurrence that is of a lesser concern or a rare event that may require more extensive investigation. It can also help to understand whether the issue is restricted to a single user or system or is broader in scope.\\\nWhen looking at the target of the behavior illustrated by the event, you should note the sensitivity of the user and or/system to help determine the potential impact. It is also helpful to see what other events involving the target have occurred in the recent past. This can help tie different events together and give further situational awareness regarding the target.\\\nVarious types of information for external systems should be reviewed and (potentially) collected if the incident is, indeed, judged to be malicious. Information like this can be useful in generating your own threat intelligence to create alerts in the future.\\\nLooking at the country, responsible party, and fully qualified domain names associated with the external IP address--as well as the registration information associated with those domain names, if they are frequently visited by others--can help you answer the question of \"who,\" in regard to the external system. Answering that can help qualify the event and may serve useful for tracking. In addition, there are various sources that can provide some reputation information on the IP address or domain name, which can assist in determining if the event is malicious in nature. Finally, determining whether or not there are other events associated with the IP address may help connect some dots or show other events that should be brought into scope.\\\nGathering various data elements on the system of interest can sometimes help quickly determine that something suspicious may be happening. Some of these items include determining who else may have recently logged into the system, whether any unusual scheduled tasks exist, whether the system is communicating on suspicious ports, whether there are modifications to sensitive registry keys, and whether there are any known vulnerabilities on the system. This information can often highlight other activity commonly seen in attack scenarios or give more information about how the system may have been targeted.\\\nhen a specific service or application is targeted, it is often helpful to know the associated version to help determine whether or not it is vulnerable to a specific exploit.\\\nhen it is suspected there is an attack targeting a web server, it is helpful to look at some of the behavior of the web service to see if there is evidence that the service has been compromised. Some indications of this might be network connections to external resources, the web service spawning child processes that are not associated with typical behavior, and whether the service wrote any files that might be malicious in nature.\\\nIn the event that a suspicious file is found, we can review more information about it to help determine if it is, in fact, malicious. Identifying the file type, any processes that have the file open, what processes created and/or modified the file, and the number of systems that may have this file can help to determine if the file is malicious. Also, determining the file hash and checking it against reputation sources, such as VirusTotal, can sometimes quickly help determine whether it is malicious in nature.\\\nOften, a simple inspection of a suspect process name and path can tell you if the system has been compromised. For example, if `svchost.exe` is found running from a location other than `C:\\Windows\\System32`, it is likely something malicious designed to hide in plain sight when simply reviewing process names. Similarly, if the process itself seems legitimate, but the parent process is running from the temporary browser cache, there may be activity initiated via a compromised website the user visited.\\\nIt can also be very helpful to examine various behaviors of the process of interest or the parent of the process that is of interest. For example, if it turns out that the process of interest is malicious, it would be good to see if the parent to that process spawned other processes that might also be worth further scrutiny. If a process is suspect, reviewing the network connections made around the time of the event and/or if the process spawned any child processes could be helpful in determining whether it is malicious or executing a malicious script.", "references": ["https://github.com/SpiderLabs/owasp-modsecurity-crs/blob/v3.2/dev/rules/REQUEST-944-APPLICATION-ATTACK-JAVA.conf"], "tags": {"name": "Apache Struts Vulnerability", "analytic_story": "Apache Struts Vulnerability", "category": ["Vulnerability"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1082", "mitre_attack_technique": "System Information Discovery", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Discovery"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT18", "APT19", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT37", "APT38", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Darkhotel", "Frankenstein", "Gamaredon Group", "Higaisa", "Honeybee", "Inception", "Ke3chang", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Magic Hound", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Rocke", "Sandworm Team", "Sidewinder", "Sowbug", "Stealth Falcon", "TeamTNT", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "Windigo", "Windshift", "Wizard Spider", "ZIRCONIUM", "admin@338"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Discovery"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Delivery", "Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Suspicious Java Classes - Rule", "ESCU - Web Servers Executing Suspicious Processes - Rule", "ESCU - Unusually Long Content-Type Length - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task", "ESCU - Investigate Suspicious Strings in HTTP Header - Response Task", "ESCU - Investigate Web POSTs From src - Response Task"], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Rico Valdez"}, {"name": "Asset Tracking", "id": "91c676cf-0b23-438d-abee-f6335e1fce77", "version": 1, "date": "2017-09-13", "author": "Bhavin Patel, Splunk", "description": "Keep a careful inventory of every asset on your network to make it easier to detect rogue devices. Unauthorized/unmanaged devices could be an indication of malicious behavior that should be investigated further.", "narrative": "This Analytic Story is designed to help you develop a better understanding of what authorized and unauthorized devices are part of your enterprise. This story can help you better categorize and classify assets, providing critical business context and awareness of their assets during an incident. Information derived from this Analytic Story can be used to better inform and support other analytic stories. For successful detection, you will need to leverage the Assets and Identity Framework from Enterprise Security to populate your known assets.", "references": ["https://www.cisecurity.org/controls/inventory-of-authorized-and-unauthorized-devices/"], "tags": {"name": "Asset Tracking", "analytic_story": "Asset Tracking", "category": ["Best Practices"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Security Monitoring", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [], "mitre_attack_tactics": [], "datamodels": ["Network_Sessions"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Delivery", "Reconnaissance"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Detect Unauthorized Assets by MAC address - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get First Occurrence and Last Occurrence of a MAC Address - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task"], "baseline_names": ["ESCU - Count of assets by category"], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Bhavin Patel"}, {"name": "AWS Cross Account Activity", "id": "2f2f610a-d64d-48c2-b57c-967a2b49ab5a", "version": 1, "date": "2018-06-04", "author": "David Dorsey, Splunk", "description": "Track when a user assumes an IAM role in another AWS account to obtain cross-account access to services and resources in that account. Accessing new roles could be an indication of malicious activity.", "narrative": "Amazon Web Services (AWS) admins manage access to AWS resources and services across the enterprise using AWS's Identity and Access Management (IAM) functionality. IAM provides the ability to create and manage AWS users, groups, and roles-each with their own unique set of privileges and defined access to specific resources (such as EC2 instances, the AWS Management Console, API, or the command-line interface). Unlike conventional (human) users, IAM roles are assumable by anyone in the organization. They provide users with dynamically created temporary security credentials that expire within a set time period.\\\nHerein lies the rub. In between the time between when the temporary credentials are issued and when they expire is a period of opportunity, where a user could leverage the temporary credentials to wreak havoc-spin up or remove instances, create new users, elevate privileges, and other malicious activities-throughout the environment.\\\nThis Analytic Story includes searches that will help you monitor your AWS CloudTrail logs for evidence of suspicious cross-account activity.  For example, while accessing multiple AWS accounts and roles may be perfectly valid behavior, it may be suspicious when an account requests privileges of an account it has not accessed in the past. After identifying suspicious activities, you can use the provided investigative searches to help you probe more deeply.", "references": ["https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/aws-cloudtrail-now-tracks-cross-account-activity-to-its-origin/"], "tags": {"name": "AWS Cross Account Activity", "analytic_story": "AWS Cross Account Activity", "category": ["Cloud Security"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Security Monitoring", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1078", "mitre_attack_technique": "Valid Accounts", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Initial Access", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT18", "APT28", "APT29", "APT33", "APT39", "APT41", "Carbanak", "Chimera", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN4", "FIN5", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "GALLIUM", "Leviathan", "Night Dragon", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "PittyTiger", "Sandworm Team", "Silence", "Silent Librarian", "Suckfly", "TEMP.Veles", "Threat Group-3390", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1550", "mitre_attack_technique": "Use Alternate Authentication Material", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Lateral Movement"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Initial Access", "Lateral Movement", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "datamodels": [], "kill_chain_phases": ["Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - aws detect attach to role policy - Rule", "ESCU - aws detect permanent key creation - Rule", "ESCU - aws detect role creation - Rule", "ESCU - aws detect sts assume role abuse - Rule", "ESCU - aws detect sts get session token abuse - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - AWS Investigate User Activities By AccessKeyId - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task"], "baseline_names": ["ESCU - Previously Seen AWS Cross Account Activity"], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "David Dorsey"}, {"name": "AWS IAM Privilege Escalation", "id": "ced74200-8465-4bc3-bd2c-22782eec6750", "version": 1, "date": "2021-03-08", "author": "Bhavin Patel, Splunk", "description": "This analytic story contains detections that query your AWS Cloudtrail for activities related to privilege escalation.", "narrative": "Amazon Web Services provides a neat feature called Identity and Access Management (IAM) that enables organizations to manage various AWS services and resources in a secure way. All IAM users have roles, groups and policies associated with them which governs and sets permissions to allow a user to access specific restrictions.\\\nHowever, if these IAM policies are misconfigured and have specific combinations of weak permissions; it can allow attackers to escalate their privileges and further compromise the organization. Rhino Security Labs have published comprehensive blogs detailing various AWS Escalation methods. By using this as an inspiration, Splunks research team wants to highlight how these attack vectors look in AWS Cloudtrail logs and provide you with detection queries to uncover these potentially malicious events via this Analytic Story. ", "references": ["https://rhinosecuritylabs.com/aws/aws-privilege-escalation-methods-mitigation/", "https://www.cyberark.com/resources/threat-research-blog/the-cloud-shadow-admin-threat-10-permissions-to-protect", "https://labs.bishopfox.com/tech-blog/privilege-escalation-in-aws"], "tags": {"name": "AWS IAM Privilege Escalation", "analytic_story": "AWS IAM Privilege Escalation", "category": ["Cloud Security"], "product": ["Splunk Security Analytics for AWS", "Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Security Monitoring", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1078.004", "mitre_attack_technique": "Cloud Accounts", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Initial Access", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT33"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1078", "mitre_attack_technique": "Valid Accounts", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Initial Access", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT18", "APT28", "APT29", "APT33", "APT39", "APT41", "Carbanak", "Chimera", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN4", "FIN5", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "GALLIUM", "Leviathan", "Night Dragon", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "PittyTiger", "Sandworm Team", "Silence", "Silent Librarian", "Suckfly", "TEMP.Veles", "Threat Group-3390", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1136.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Cloud Account", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1136", "mitre_attack_technique": "Create Account", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Indrik Spider", "Sandworm Team"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1580", "mitre_attack_technique": "Cloud Infrastructure Discovery", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Discovery"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1110", "mitre_attack_technique": "Brute Force", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT38", "APT39", "DarkVishnya", "FIN5", "Fox Kitten", "OilRig", "Turla"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1098", "mitre_attack_technique": "Account Manipulation", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT3", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Lazarus Group", "Sandworm Team"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1069.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Cloud Groups", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Discovery"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1069", "mitre_attack_technique": "Permission Groups Discovery", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Discovery"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "APT3", "TA505"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access", "Defense Evasion", "Discovery", "Initial Access", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "datamodels": [], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Reconnaissance"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - AWS Create Policy Version to allow all resources - Rule", "ESCU - AWS CreateAccessKey - Rule", "ESCU - AWS CreateLoginProfile - Rule", "ESCU - AWS IAM Assume Role Policy Brute Force - Rule", "ESCU - AWS IAM Delete Policy - Rule", "ESCU - AWS IAM Failure Group Deletion - Rule", "ESCU - AWS IAM Successful Group Deletion - Rule", "ESCU - AWS SetDefaultPolicyVersion - Rule", "ESCU - AWS UpdateLoginProfile - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Bhavin Patel"}, {"name": "AWS Network ACL Activity", "id": "2e8948a5-5239-406b-b56b-6c50ff268af4", "version": 2, "date": "2018-05-21", "author": "Bhavin Patel, Splunk", "description": "Monitor your AWS network infrastructure for bad configurations and malicious activity. Investigative searches help you probe deeper, when the facts warrant it.", "narrative": "AWS CloudTrail is an AWS service that helps you enable governance, compliance, and operational/risk auditing of your AWS account. Actions taken by a user, role, or an AWS service are recorded as events in CloudTrail. It is crucial for a company to monitor events and actions taken in the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface, and AWS SDKs and APIs to ensure that your servers are not vulnerable to attacks. This analytic story contains detection searches that leverage CloudTrail logs from AWS to check for bad configurations and malicious activity in your AWS network access controls.", "references": ["https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonVPC/latest/UserGuide/VPC_Appendix_NACLs.html", "https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/how-to-help-prepare-for-ddos-attacks-by-reducing-your-attack-surface/"], "tags": {"name": "AWS Network ACL Activity", "analytic_story": "AWS Network ACL Activity", "category": ["Cloud Security"], "product": ["Splunk Security Analytics for AWS", "Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Security Monitoring", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1562.007", "mitre_attack_technique": "Disable or Modify Cloud Firewall", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1562", "mitre_attack_technique": "Impair Defenses", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "datamodels": [], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Command & Control"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - AWS Network Access Control List Created with All Open Ports - Rule", "ESCU - AWS Network Access Control List Deleted - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Spike in Network ACL Activity - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Spike in blocked Outbound Traffic from your AWS - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - AWS Investigate User Activities By ARN - Response Task", "ESCU - AWS Network ACL Details from ID - Response Task", "ESCU - AWS Network Interface details via resourceId - Response Task", "ESCU - Get All AWS Activity From IP Address - Response Task", "ESCU - Get DNS Server History for a host - Response Task", "ESCU - Get DNS traffic ratio - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Info - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Information For Port Activity - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Responsible For The DNS Traffic - Response Task"], "baseline_names": ["ESCU - Baseline of blocked outbound traffic from AWS", "ESCU - Baseline of Network ACL Activity by ARN"], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Bhavin Patel"}, {"name": "AWS Security Hub Alerts", "id": "2f2f610a-d64d-48c2-b57c-96722b49ab5a", "version": 1, "date": "2020-08-04", "author": "Bhavin Patel, Splunk", "description": "This story is focused around detecting Security Hub alerts generated from AWS", "narrative": "AWS Security Hub collects and consolidates findings from AWS security services enabled in your environment, such as intrusion detection findings from Amazon GuardDuty, vulnerability scans from Amazon Inspector, S3 bucket policy findings from Amazon Macie, publicly accessible and cross-account resources from IAM Access Analyzer, and resources lacking WAF coverage from AWS Firewall Manager.", "references": ["https://aws.amazon.com/security-hub/features/"], "tags": {"name": "AWS Security Hub Alerts", "analytic_story": "AWS Security Hub Alerts", "category": ["Cloud Security"], "product": ["Splunk Security Analytics for AWS", "Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Security Monitoring", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [], "mitre_attack_tactics": [], "datamodels": [], "kill_chain_phases": ["Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Detect Spike in AWS Security Hub Alerts for EC2 Instance - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Spike in AWS Security Hub Alerts for User - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - AWS Investigate User Activities By ARN - Response Task", "ESCU - Get EC2 Instance Details by instanceId - Response Task", "ESCU - Get EC2 Launch Details - Response Task"], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Bhavin Patel"}, {"name": "AWS User Monitoring", "id": "2e8948a5-5239-406b-b56b-6c50f1269af3", "version": 1, "date": "2018-03-12", "author": "Bhavin Patel, Splunk", "description": "Detect and investigate dormant user accounts for your AWS environment that have become active again. Because inactive and ad-hoc accounts are common attack targets, it's critical to enable governance within your environment.", "narrative": "It seems obvious that it is critical to monitor and control the users who have access to your cloud infrastructure. Nevertheless, it's all too common for enterprises to lose track of ad-hoc accounts, leaving their servers vulnerable to attack. In fact, this was the very oversight that led to Tesla's cryptojacking attack in February, 2018.\\\nIn addition to compromising the security of your data, when bad actors leverage your compute resources, it can incur monumental costs, since you will be billed for any new EC2 instances and increased bandwidth usage. \\\nFortunately, you can leverage Amazon Web Services (AWS) CloudTrail--a tool that helps you enable governance, compliance, and risk auditing of your AWS account--to give you increased visibility into your user and resource activity by recording AWS Management Console actions and API calls. You can identify which users and accounts called AWS, the source IP address from which the calls were made, and when the calls occurred.\\\nThe detection searches in this Analytic Story are designed to help you uncover AWS API activities from users not listed in the identity table, as well as similar activities from disabled accounts.", "references": ["https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/aws-security-best-practices.pdf", "https://redlock.io/blog/cryptojacking-tesla"], "tags": {"name": "AWS User Monitoring", "analytic_story": "AWS User Monitoring", "category": ["Cloud Security"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Security Monitoring", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1526", "mitre_attack_technique": "Cloud Service Discovery", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Discovery"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1078.004", "mitre_attack_technique": "Cloud Accounts", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Initial Access", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT33"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Discovery", "Initial Access", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "datamodels": [], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - AWS Excessive Security Scanning - Rule", "ESCU - Detect API activity from users without MFA - Rule", "ESCU - Detect AWS API Activities From Unapproved Accounts - Rule", "ESCU - Detect new API calls from user roles - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Spike in AWS API Activity - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Spike in Security Group Activity - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task", "ESCU - Investigate AWS User Activities by user field - Response Task"], "baseline_names": ["ESCU - Baseline of Security Group Activity by ARN", "ESCU - Create a list of approved AWS service accounts", "ESCU - Baseline of API Calls per User ARN", "ESCU - Previously seen API call per user roles in CloudTrail"], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Bhavin Patel"}, {"name": "Baron Samedit CVE-2021-3156", "id": "817b0dfc-23ba-4bcc-96cc-2cb77e428fbe", "version": 1, "date": "2021-01-27", "author": "Shannon Davis, Splunk", "description": "Uncover activity consistent with CVE-2021-3156. Discovered by the Qualys Research Team, this vulnerability has been found to affect sudo across multiple Linux distributions (Ubuntu 20.04 and prior, Debian 10 and prior, Fedora 33 and prior). As this vulnerability was committed to code in July 2011, there will be many distributions affected. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability allows any unprivileged user to gain root privileges on the vulnerable host.", "narrative": "A non-privledged user is able to execute the sudoedit command to trigger a buffer overflow. After the successful buffer overflow, they are then able to gain root privileges on the affected host. The conditions needed to be run are a trailing \"\\\" along with shell and edit flags. Monitoring the /var/log directory on Linux hosts using the Splunk Universal Forwarder will allow you to pick up this behavior when using the provided detection.", "references": ["https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-research/2021/01/26/cve-2021-3156-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-sudo-baron-samedit"], "tags": {"name": "Baron Samedit CVE-2021-3156", "analytic_story": "Baron Samedit CVE-2021-3156", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1068", "mitre_attack_technique": "Exploitation for Privilege Escalation", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT32", "APT33", "Cobalt Group", "FIN6", "FIN8", "PLATINUM", "Threat Group-3390", "Tonto Team", "Turla", "Whitefly", "ZIRCONIUM"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Privilege Escalation"], "datamodels": [], "kill_chain_phases": ["Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Detect Baron Samedit CVE-2021-3156 - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Baron Samedit CVE-2021-3156 Segfault - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Baron Samedit CVE-2021-3156 via OSQuery - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Shannon Davis"}, {"name": "BITS Jobs", "id": "dbc7edce-8e4c-11eb-9f31-acde48001122", "version": 1, "date": "2021-03-26", "author": "Michael Haag, Splunk", "description": "Adversaries may abuse BITS jobs to persistently execute or clean up after malicious payloads.", "narrative": "Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) is a low-bandwidth, asynchronous file transfer mechanism exposed through Component Object Model (COM). BITS is commonly used by updaters, messengers, and other applications preferred to operate in the background (using available idle bandwidth) without interrupting other networked applications. File transfer tasks are implemented as BITS jobs, which contain a queue of one or more file operations. The interface to create and manage BITS jobs is accessible through PowerShell and the BITSAdmin tool. Adversaries may abuse BITS to download, execute, and even clean up after running malicious code. BITS tasks are self-contained in the BITS job database, without new files or registry modifications, and often permitted by host firewalls. BITS enabled execution may also enable persistence by creating long-standing jobs (the default maximum lifetime is 90 days and extendable) or invoking an arbitrary program when a job completes or errors (including after system reboots).", "references": ["https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1197/", "https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/bits/bitsadmin-tool"], "tags": {"name": "BITS Jobs", "analytic_story": "BITS Jobs", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1197", "mitre_attack_technique": "BITS Jobs", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Persistence"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT39", "APT41", "Leviathan", "Patchwork"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1105", "mitre_attack_technique": "Ingress Tool Transfer", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Command And Control"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT-C-36", "APT18", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "Ajax Security Team", "Andariel", "BRONZE BUTLER", "BackdoorDiplomacy", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Elderwood", "Evilnum", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "HAFNIUM", "IndigoZebra", "Indrik Spider", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Leviathan", "Magic Hound", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "PLATINUM", "Patchwork", "Rancor", "Rocke", "Sandworm Team", "Sharpshooter", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "TA505", "TA551", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Tonto Team", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "Volatile Cedar", "WIRTE", "Whitefly", "Windshift", "ZIRCONIUM", "menuPass"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Command And Control", "Defense Evasion", "Persistence"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - BITS Job Persistence - Rule", "ESCU - BITSAdmin Download File - Rule", "ESCU - PowerShell Start-BitsTransfer - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Michael Haag"}, {"name": "Brand Monitoring", "id": "91c676cf-0b23-438d-abee-f6335e1fce78", "version": 1, "date": "2017-12-19", "author": "David Dorsey, Splunk", "description": "Detect and investigate activity that may indicate that an adversary is using faux domains to mislead users into interacting with malicious infrastructure. Monitor DNS, email, and web traffic for permutations of your brand name.", "narrative": "While you can educate your users and customers about the risks and threats posed by typosquatting, phishing, and corporate espionage, human error is a persistent fact of life. Of course, your adversaries are all too aware of this reality and will happily leverage it for nefarious purposes whenever possible&#51;phishing with lookalike addresses, embedding faux command-and-control domains in malware, and hosting malicious content on domains that closely mimic your corporate servers. This is where brand monitoring comes in.\\\nYou can use our adaptation of `DNSTwist`, together with the support searches in this Analytic Story, to generate permutations of specified brands and external domains. Splunk can monitor email, DNS requests, and web traffic for these permutations and provide you with early warnings and situational awareness--powerful elements of an effective defense.\\\nNotable events will include IP addresses, URLs, and user data. Drilling down can provide you with even more actionable intelligence, including likely geographic information, contextual searches to help you scope the problem, and investigative searches.", "references": ["https://www.zerofox.com/blog/what-is-digital-risk-monitoring/", "https://securingtomorrow.mcafee.com/consumer/family-safety/what-is-typosquatting/", "https://blog.malwarebytes.com/cybercrime/2016/06/explained-typosquatting/"], "tags": {"name": "Brand Monitoring", "analytic_story": "Brand Monitoring", "category": ["Abuse"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [], "mitre_attack_tactics": [], "datamodels": ["Email", "Network_Resolution", "Web"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Delivery"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Monitor DNS For Brand Abuse - Rule", "ESCU - Monitor Email For Brand Abuse - Rule", "ESCU - Monitor Web Traffic For Brand Abuse - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get Email Info - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Emails From Specific Sender - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Responsible For The DNS Traffic - Response Task"], "baseline_names": ["ESCU - DNSTwist Domain Names"], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "David Dorsey"}, {"name": "Caddy Wiper", "id": "435a156a-8ef1-4184-bd52-22328fb65d3a", "version": 1, "date": "2022-03-25", "author": "Teoderick Contreras, Rod Soto, Splunk", "description": "Caddy Wiper is a destructive payload that detects if its running on a Domain Controller and executes killswitch if detected. If not in a DC it destroys Users and subsequent mapped drives. This wiper also destroys drive partitions inculding boot partitions.", "narrative": "Caddy Wiper is destructive malware operation found by ESET multiple organizations in Ukraine. This malicious payload destroys user files, avoids executing on Dnomain Controllers and destroys boot and drive partitions.", "references": ["https://twitter.com/ESETresearch/status/1503436420886712321", "https://www.welivesecurity.com/2022/03/15/caddywiper-new-wiper-malware-discovered-ukraine/"], "tags": {"name": "Caddy Wiper", "analytic_story": "Caddy Wiper", "category": ["Data Destruction", "Malware", "Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1561.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Disk Structure Wipe", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Impact"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT37", "APT38", "Lazarus Group", "Sandworm Team"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1561", "mitre_attack_technique": "Disk Wipe", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Impact"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Impact"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Windows Raw Access To Disk Volume Partition - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Raw Access To Master Boot Record Drive - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Rod Soto, Splunk", "author_name": "Teoderick Contreras"}, {"name": "Cloud Cryptomining", "id": "3b96d13c-fdc7-45dd-b3ad-c132b31cdd2a", "version": 1, "date": "2019-10-02", "author": "David Dorsey, Splunk", "description": "Monitor your cloud compute instances for activities related to cryptojacking/cryptomining. New instances that originate from previously unseen regions, users who launch abnormally high numbers of instances, or compute instances started by previously unseen users are just a few examples of potentially malicious behavior.", "narrative": "Cryptomining is an intentionally difficult, resource-intensive business. Its complexity was designed into the process to ensure that the number of blocks mined each day would remain steady. So, it's par for the course that ambitious, but unscrupulous, miners make amassing the computing power of large enterprises--a practice known as cryptojacking--a top priority. \\\nCryptojacking has attracted an increasing amount of media attention since its explosion in popularity in the fall of 2017. The attacks have moved from in-browser exploits and mobile phones to enterprise cloud services, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Azure. It's difficult to determine exactly how widespread the practice has become, since bad actors continually evolve their ability to escape detection, including employing unlisted endpoints, moderating their CPU usage, and hiding the mining pool's IP address behind a free CDN. \\\nWhen malicious miners appropriate a cloud instance, often spinning up hundreds of new instances, the costs can become astronomical for the account holder. So it is critically important to monitor your systems for suspicious activities that could indicate that your network has been infiltrated. \\\nThis Analytic Story is focused on detecting suspicious new instances in your cloud environment to help prevent cryptominers from gaining a foothold. It contains detection searches that will detect when a previously unused instance type or AMI is used. It also contains support searches to build lookup files to ensure proper execution of the detection searches.", "references": ["https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/aws-security-best-practices.pdf"], "tags": {"name": "Cloud Cryptomining", "analytic_story": "Cloud Cryptomining", "category": ["Cloud Security"], "product": ["Splunk Security Analytics for AWS", "Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Security Monitoring", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1078.004", "mitre_attack_technique": "Cloud Accounts", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Initial Access", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT33"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1078", "mitre_attack_technique": "Valid Accounts", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Initial Access", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT18", "APT28", "APT29", "APT33", "APT39", "APT41", "Carbanak", "Chimera", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN4", "FIN5", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "GALLIUM", "Leviathan", "Night Dragon", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "PittyTiger", "Sandworm Team", "Silence", "Silent Librarian", "Suckfly", "TEMP.Veles", "Threat Group-3390", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1535", "mitre_attack_technique": "Unused/Unsupported Cloud Regions", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Initial Access", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "datamodels": ["Change"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Cloud Compute Instance Created By Previously Unseen User - Rule", "ESCU - Cloud Compute Instance Created In Previously Unused Region - Rule", "ESCU - Cloud Compute Instance Created With Previously Unseen Image - Rule", "ESCU - Cloud Compute Instance Created With Previously Unseen Instance Type - Rule", "ESCU - Abnormally High Number Of Cloud Instances Launched - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - AWS Investigate Security Hub alerts by dest - Response Task", "ESCU - AWS Investigate User Activities By ARN - Response Task", "ESCU - Get EC2 Instance Details by instanceId - Response Task", "ESCU - Get EC2 Launch Details - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task", "ESCU - Investigate AWS activities via region name - Response Task"], "baseline_names": ["ESCU - Baseline Of Cloud Instances Destroyed", "ESCU - Baseline Of Cloud Instances Launched", "ESCU - Previously Seen Cloud Compute Creations By User - Initial", "ESCU - Previously Seen Cloud Compute Creations By User - Update", "ESCU - Previously Seen Cloud Compute Images - Initial", "ESCU - Previously Seen Cloud Compute Images - Update", "ESCU - Previously Seen Cloud Compute Instance Types - Initial", "ESCU - Previously Seen Cloud Compute Instance Types - Update", "ESCU - Previously Seen Cloud Regions - Initial", "ESCU - Previously Seen Cloud Regions - Update"], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "David Dorsey"}, {"name": "Cloud Federated Credential Abuse", "id": "cecdc1e7-0af2-4a55-8967-b9ea62c0317d", "version": 1, "date": "2021-01-26", "author": "Rod Soto, Splunk", "description": "This analytical story addresses events that indicate abuse of cloud federated credentials. These credentials are usually extracted from endpoint desktop or servers specially those servers that provide federation services such as Windows Active Directory Federation Services. Identity Federation relies on objects such as Oauth2 tokens, cookies or SAML assertions in order to provide seamless access between cloud and perimeter environments. If these objects are either hijacked or forged then attackers will be able to pivot into victim's cloud environements.", "narrative": "This story is composed of detection searches based on endpoint that addresses the use of Mimikatz, Escalation of Privileges and Abnormal processes that may indicate the extraction of Federated directory objects such as passwords, Oauth2 tokens, certificates and keys. Cloud environment (AWS, Azure) related events are also addressed in specific cloud environment detection searches.", "references": ["https://www.cyberark.com/resources/threat-research-blog/golden-saml-newly-discovered-attack-technique-forges-authentication-to-cloud-apps", "https://www.fireeye.com/content/dam/fireeye-www/blog/pdfs/wp-m-unc2452-2021-000343-01.pdf", "https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/alerts/aa21-008a"], "tags": {"name": "Cloud Federated Credential Abuse", "analytic_story": "Cloud Federated Credential Abuse", "category": ["Cloud Security"], "product": ["Splunk Security Analytics for AWS", "Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Security Monitoring", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1078", "mitre_attack_technique": "Valid Accounts", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Initial Access", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT18", "APT28", "APT29", "APT33", "APT39", "APT41", "Carbanak", "Chimera", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN4", "FIN5", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "GALLIUM", "Leviathan", "Night Dragon", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "PittyTiger", "Sandworm Team", "Silence", "Silent Librarian", "Suckfly", "TEMP.Veles", "Threat Group-3390", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1136.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Cloud Account", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1136", "mitre_attack_technique": "Create Account", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Indrik Spider", "Sandworm Team"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1556", "mitre_attack_technique": "Modify Authentication Process", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access", "Defense Evasion", "Persistence"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1003.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "LSASS Memory", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT28", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Blue Mockingbird", "Cleaver", "FIN6", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "GALLIUM", "HAFNIUM", "Indrik Spider", "Ke3chang", "Kimsuky", "Leafminer", "Leviathan", "Magic Hound", "MuddyWater", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "PLATINUM", "Sandworm Team", "Silence", "TEMP.Veles", "Threat Group-3390", "Whitefly"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1003", "mitre_attack_technique": "OS Credential Dumping", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT32", "APT39", "Axiom", "Frankenstein", "Leviathan", "Poseidon Group", "Sowbug", "Suckfly", "Tonto Team"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1546.012", "mitre_attack_technique": "Image File Execution Options Injection", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["TEMP.Veles"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1546", "mitre_attack_technique": "Event Triggered Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access", "Defense Evasion", "Initial Access", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Command & Control", "Exploitation", "Installation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - AWS SAML Access by Provider User and Principal - Rule", "ESCU - AWS SAML Update identity provider - Rule", "ESCU - O365 Add App Role Assignment Grant User - Rule", "ESCU - O365 Added Service Principal - Rule", "ESCU - O365 Excessive SSO logon errors - Rule", "ESCU - O365 New Federated Domain Added - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Mimikatz Via PowerShell And EventCode 4703 - Rule", "ESCU - Certutil exe certificate extraction - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Mimikatz Using Loaded Images - Rule", "ESCU - Registry Keys Used For Privilege Escalation - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Rare Executables - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Rod Soto"}, {"name": "Cobalt Strike", "id": "bcfd17e8-5461-400a-80a2-3b7d1459220c", "version": 1, "date": "2021-02-16", "author": "Michael Haag, Splunk", "description": "Cobalt Strike is threat emulation software. Red teams and penetration testers use Cobalt Strike to demonstrate the risk of a breach and evaluate mature security programs. Most recently, Cobalt Strike has become the choice tool by threat groups due to its ease of use and extensibility.", "narrative": "This Analytic Story supports you to detect Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs) from Cobalt Strike. Cobalt Strike has many ways to be enhanced by using aggressor scripts, malleable C2 profiles, default attack packages, and much more. For endpoint behavior, Cobalt Strike is most commonly identified via named pipes, spawn to processes, and DLL function names. Many additional variables are provided for in memory operation of the beacon implant. On the network, depending on the malleable C2 profile used, it is near infinite in the amount of ways to conceal the C2 traffic with Cobalt Strike. Not every query may be specific to Cobalt Strike the tool, but the methodologies and techniques used by it.\\\nSplunk Threat Research reviewed all publicly available instances of Malleabe C2 Profiles and generated a list of the most commonly used spawnto and pipenames.\\\n`Spawnto_x86` and `spawnto_x64` is the process that Cobalt Strike will spawn and injects shellcode into.\\\nPipename sets the named pipe name used in Cobalt Strikes Beacon SMB C2 traffic.\\\nWith that, new detections were generated focused on these spawnto processes spawning without command line arguments. Similar, the named pipes most commonly used by Cobalt Strike added as a detection. In generating content for Cobalt Strike, the following is considered:\\\n- Is it normal for spawnto_ value to have no command line arguments? No command line arguments and a network connection?\\\n- What is the default, or normal, process lineage for spawnto_ value?\\\n- Does the spawnto_ value make network connections?\\\n- Is it normal for spawnto_ value to load jscript, vbscript, Amsi.dll, and clr.dll?\\\nWhile investigating a detection related to this Analytic Story, keep in mind the parent process, process path, and any file modifications that may occur. Tuning may need to occur to remove any false positives.", "references": ["https://www.cobaltstrike.com/", "https://www.infocyte.com/blog/2020/09/02/cobalt-strike-the-new-favorite-among-thieves/", "https://bluescreenofjeff.com/2017-01-24-how-to-write-malleable-c2-profiles-for-cobalt-strike/", "https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2020/09/coverage-strikes-back-cobalt-strike-paper.html", "https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2020/12/unauthorized-access-of-fireeye-red-team-tools.html", "https://github.com/MichaelKoczwara/Awesome-CobaltStrike-Defence", "https://github.com/zer0yu/Awesome-CobaltStrike"], "tags": {"name": "Cobalt Strike", "analytic_story": "Cobalt Strike", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1560.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Archive via Utility", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Collection"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT33", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Chimera", "CopyKittens", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "GALLIUM", "Gallmaker", "HAFNIUM", "Ke3chang", "Magic Hound", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Operation Wocao", "Sowbug", "Turla", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1560", "mitre_attack_technique": "Archive Collected Data", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Collection"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT32", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN6", "Honeybee", "Ke3chang", "Lazarus Group", "Leviathan", "Patchwork", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1059", "mitre_attack_technique": "Command and Scripting Interpreter", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "APT37", "APT39", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN5", "FIN6", "FIN7", "Fox Kitten", "Ke3chang", "OilRig", "Stealth Falcon", "Whitefly", "Windigo"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1059.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Windows Command Shell", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT18", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT37", "APT38", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "Dark Caracal", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Higaisa", "Honeybee", "Indrik Spider", "Ke3chang", "Lazarus Group", "Machete", "Magic Hound", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Rancor", "Sandworm Team", "Silence", "Sowbug", "Suckfly", "TA505", "TA551", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-1314", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "Wizard Spider", "ZIRCONIUM", "admin@338", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1543.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Windows Service", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT3", "APT32", "APT38", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Carbanak", "Cobalt Group", "DarkVishnya", "FIN7", "Honeybee", "Ke3chang", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "PROMETHIUM", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1543", "mitre_attack_technique": "Create or Modify System Process", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1055", "mitre_attack_technique": "Process Injection", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "APT37", "APT41", "Cobalt Group", "Honeybee", "Kimsuky", "Operation Wocao", "PLATINUM", "Sharpshooter", "Silence", "Turla"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1218", "mitre_attack_technique": "Signed Binary Proxy Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1218.010", "mitre_attack_technique": "Regsvr32", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "Blue Mockingbird", "Cobalt Group", "Deep Panda", "Inception", "Leviathan", "TA551", "WIRTE"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1218.011", "mitre_attack_technique": "Rundll32", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT38", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Carbanak", "CopyKittens", "Gamaredon Group", "HAFNIUM", "MuddyWater", "Sandworm Team", "TA505", "TA551"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1548", "mitre_attack_technique": "Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1036", "mitre_attack_technique": "Masquerading", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT29", "APT32", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "PLATINUM", "TA551", "Windshift", "ZIRCONIUM", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1127", "mitre_attack_technique": "Trusted Developer Utilities Proxy Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1036.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Rename System Utilities", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "GALLIUM", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1127.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "MSBuild", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Frankenstein"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Collection", "Defense Evasion", "Execution", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Anomalous usage of 7zip - Rule", "ESCU - CMD Echo Pipe - Escalation - Rule", "ESCU - Cobalt Strike Named Pipes - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Regsvr32 Application Control Bypass - Rule", "ESCU - DLLHost with no Command Line Arguments with Network - Rule", "ESCU - GPUpdate with no Command Line Arguments with Network - Rule", "ESCU - Rundll32 with no Command Line Arguments with Network - Rule", "ESCU - SearchProtocolHost with no Command Line with Network - Rule", "ESCU - Services Escalate Exe - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious DLLHost no Command Line Arguments - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious GPUpdate no Command Line Arguments - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious microsoft workflow compiler rename - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious msbuild path - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious MSBuild Rename - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious Rundll32 StartW - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious Rundll32 no Command Line Arguments - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious SearchProtocolHost no Command Line Arguments - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Michael Haag"}, {"name": "ColdRoot MacOS RAT", "id": "bd91a2bc-d20b-4f44-a982-1bea98e86390", "version": 1, "date": "2019-01-09", "author": "Jose Hernandez, Splunk", "description": "Leverage searches that allow you to detect and investigate unusual activities that relate to the ColdRoot Remote Access Trojan that affects MacOS. An example of some of these activities are changing sensative binaries in the MacOS sub-system, detecting process names and executables associated with the RAT, detecting when a keyboard tab is installed on a MacOS machine and more.", "narrative": "Conventional wisdom holds that Apple's MacOS operating system is significantly less vulnerable to attack than Windows machines. While that point is debatable, it is true that attacks against MacOS systems are much less common. However, this fact does not mean that Macs are impervious to breaches. To the contrary, research has shown that that Mac malware is increasing at an alarming rate. According to AV-test, in 2018, there were 86,865 new MacOS malware variants, up from 27,338 the year before&#151;a 31% increase. In contrast, the independent research firm found that new Windows malware had increased from 65.17M to 76.86M during that same period, less than half the rate of growth. The bottom line is that while the numbers look a lot smaller than Windows, it's definitely time to take Mac security more seriously.\\\nThis Analytic Story addresses the ColdRoot remote access trojan (RAT), which was uploaded to Github in 2016, but was still escaping detection by the first quarter of 2018, when a new, more feature-rich variant was discovered masquerading as an Apple audio driver. Among other capabilities, the Pascal-based ColdRoot can heist passwords from users' keychains and remotely control infected machines without detection. In the initial report of his findings, Patrick Wardle, Chief Research Officer for Digita Security, explained that the new ColdRoot RAT could start and kill processes on the breached system, spawn new remote-desktop sessions, take screen captures and assemble them into a live stream of the victim's desktop, and more.\\\nSearches in this Analytic Story leverage the capabilities of OSquery to address ColdRoot detection from several different angles, such as looking for the existence of associated files and processes, and monitoring for signs of an installed keylogger.", "references": ["https://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/osxcoldroot-and-the-rat-invasion/", "https://objective-see.com/blog/blog_0x2A.html", "https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/coldroot-rat-still-undetectable-despite-being-uploaded-on-github-two-years-ago/"], "tags": {"name": "ColdRoot MacOS RAT", "analytic_story": "ColdRoot MacOS RAT", "category": ["Malware"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [], "mitre_attack_tactics": [], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Command & Control", "Installation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Osquery pack - ColdRoot detection - Rule", "ESCU - MacOS - Re-opened Applications - Rule", "ESCU - Processes Tapping Keyboard Events - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task", "ESCU - Investigate Network Traffic From src ip - Response Task"], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Jose Hernandez"}, {"name": "Collection and Staging", "id": "8e03c61e-13c4-4dcd-bfbe-5ce5a8dc031a", "version": 1, "date": "2020-02-03", "author": "Rico Valdez, Splunk", "description": "Monitor for and investigate activities--such as suspicious writes to the Windows Recycling Bin or email servers sending high amounts of traffic to specific hosts, for example--that may indicate that an adversary is harvesting and exfiltrating sensitive data. ", "narrative": "A common adversary goal is to identify and exfiltrate data of value from a target organization. This data may include email conversations and addresses, confidential company information, links to network design/infrastructure, important dates, and so on.\\\n Attacks are composed of three activities: identification, collection, and staging data for exfiltration. Identification typically involves scanning systems and observing user activity. Collection can involve the transfer of large amounts of data from various repositories. Staging/preparation includes moving data to a central location and compressing (and optionally encoding and/or encrypting) it. All of these activities provide opportunities for defenders to identify their presence. \\\nUse the searches to detect and monitor suspicious behavior related to these activities.", "references": ["https://attack.mitre.org/wiki/Collection", "https://attack.mitre.org/wiki/Technique/T1074"], "tags": {"name": "Collection and Staging", "analytic_story": "Collection and Staging", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Security Monitoring", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1036", "mitre_attack_technique": "Masquerading", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT29", "APT32", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "PLATINUM", "TA551", "Windshift", "ZIRCONIUM", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1560.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Archive via Utility", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Collection"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT33", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Chimera", "CopyKittens", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "GALLIUM", "Gallmaker", "HAFNIUM", "Ke3chang", "Magic Hound", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Operation Wocao", "Sowbug", "Turla", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1560", "mitre_attack_technique": "Archive Collected Data", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Collection"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT32", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN6", "Honeybee", "Ke3chang", "Lazarus Group", "Leviathan", "Patchwork", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1114", "mitre_attack_technique": "Email Collection", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Collection"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Magic Hound", "Silent Librarian"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1114.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Local Email Collection", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Collection"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "Chimera", "Magic Hound"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1114.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Remote Email Collection", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Collection"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT28", "APT29", "Chimera", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN4", "HAFNIUM", "Ke3chang", "Leafminer"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Collection", "Defense Evasion"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint", "Network_Traffic"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Suspicious writes to System Volume Information - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Renamed 7-Zip - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Renamed WinRAR - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious writes to windows Recycle Bin - Rule", "ESCU - Email files written outside of the Outlook directory - Rule", "ESCU - Email servers sending high volume traffic to hosts - Rule", "ESCU - Hosts receiving high volume of network traffic from email server - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Parent Process Info - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Info - Response Task"], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Rico Valdez"}, {"name": "Command and Control", "id": "943773c6-c4de-4f38-89a8-0b92f98804d8", "version": 1, "date": "2018-06-01", "author": "Rico Valdez, Splunk", "description": "Detect and investigate tactics, techniques, and procedures leveraged by attackers to establish and operate command and control channels. Implants installed by attackers on compromised endpoints use these channels to receive instructions and send data back to the malicious operators.", "narrative": "Threat actors typically architect and implement an infrastructure to use in various ways during the course of their attack campaigns. In some cases, they leverage this infrastructure for scanning and performing reconnaissance activities. In others, they may use this infrastructure to launch actual attacks. One of the most important functions of this infrastructure is to establish servers that will communicate with implants on compromised endpoints. These servers establish a command and control channel that is used to proxy data between the compromised endpoint and the attacker. These channels relay commands from the attacker to the compromised endpoint and the output of those commands back to the attacker.\\\nBecause this communication is so critical for an adversary, they often use techniques designed to hide the true nature of the communications. There are many different techniques used to establish and communicate over these channels. This Analytic Story provides searches that look for a variety of the techniques used for these channels, as well as indications that these channels are active, by examining logs associated with border control devices and network-access control lists.", "references": ["https://attack.mitre.org/wiki/Command_and_Control", "https://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/feature/Command-and-control-servers-The-puppet-masters-that-govern-malware"], "tags": {"name": "Command and Control", "analytic_story": "Command and Control", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Security Monitoring", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1048.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Exfiltration Over Unencrypted/Obfuscated Non-C2 Protocol", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Exfiltration"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "APT33", "FIN6", "FIN8", "Lazarus Group", "OilRig", "Thrip", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1071.004", "mitre_attack_technique": "DNS", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Command And Control"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT18", "APT39", "APT41", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "FIN7", "Ke3chang", "OilRig", "Tropic Trooper"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1048", "mitre_attack_technique": "Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Exfiltration"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1095", "mitre_attack_technique": "Non-Application Layer Protocol", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Command And Control"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "APT3", "BackdoorDiplomacy", "FIN6", "HAFNIUM", "Operation Wocao", "PLATINUM"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1071", "mitre_attack_technique": "Application Layer Protocol", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Command And Control"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Dragonfly 2.0", "Magic Hound", "Rocke", "TeamTNT"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1071.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Web Protocols", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Command And Control"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT18", "APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "Dark Caracal", "FIN4", "FIN8", "Gamaredon Group", "HAFNIUM", "Higaisa", "Inception", "Ke3chang", "Lazarus Group", "Magic Hound", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Night Dragon", "OilRig", "Orangeworm", "Rancor", "Rocke", "Sandworm Team", "Sidewinder", "SilverTerrier", "Stealth Falcon", "TA505", "TA551", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "WIRTE", "Windshift", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1189", "mitre_attack_technique": "Drive-by Compromise", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Initial Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "APT37", "APT38", "Andariel", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Dark Caracal", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Elderwood", "Lazarus Group", "Leafminer", "Leviathan", "Machete", "PLATINUM", "PROMETHIUM", "Patchwork", "RTM", "Threat Group-3390", "Transparent Tribe", "Turla", "Windigo", "Windshift"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Command And Control", "Exfiltration", "Initial Access"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint", "Network_Resolution", "Network_Traffic"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Command & Control", "Delivery", "Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Clients Connecting to Multiple DNS Servers - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Long DNS TXT Record Response - Rule", "ESCU - Detection of DNS Tunnels - Rule", "ESCU - DNS Query Requests Resolved by Unauthorized DNS Servers - Rule", "ESCU - DNS Exfiltration Using Nslookup App - Rule", "ESCU - Excessive Usage of NSLOOKUP App - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Spike in blocked Outbound Traffic from your AWS - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Large Outbound ICMP Packets - Rule", "ESCU - DNS Query Length Outliers - MLTK - Rule", "ESCU - Excessive DNS Failures - Rule", "ESCU - Prohibited Network Traffic Allowed - Rule", "ESCU - Protocol or Port Mismatch - Rule", "ESCU - TOR Traffic - Rule", "ESCU - Detect hosts connecting to dynamic domain providers - Rule", "ESCU - DNS Query Length With High Standard Deviation - Rule", "ESCU - Multiple Archive Files Http Post Traffic - Rule", "ESCU - Plain HTTP POST Exfiltrated Data - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - AWS Investigate User Activities By ARN - Response Task", "ESCU - AWS Network ACL Details from ID - Response Task", "ESCU - AWS Network Interface details via resourceId - Response Task", "ESCU - Get All AWS Activity From IP Address - Response Task", "ESCU - Get DNS Server History for a host - Response Task", "ESCU - Get DNS traffic ratio - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Parent Process Info - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Info - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Information For Port Activity - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Responsible For The DNS Traffic - Response Task"], "baseline_names": ["ESCU - Baseline of blocked outbound traffic from AWS", "ESCU - Baseline of DNS Query Length - MLTK", "ESCU - Count of Unique IPs Connecting to Ports"], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Rico Valdez"}, {"name": "Container Implantation Monitoring and Investigation", "id": "aa0e28b1-0521-4b6f-9d2a-7b87e34af246", "version": 1, "date": "2020-02-20", "author": "Rod Soto, Rico Valdez, Splunk", "description": "Use the searches in this story to monitor your Kubernetes registry repositories for upload, and deployment of potentially vulnerable, backdoor, or implanted containers. These searches provide information on source users, destination path, container names and repository names. The searches provide context to address Mitre T1525 which refers to container implantation upload to a company's repository either in Amazon Elastic Container Registry, Google Container Registry and Azure Container Registry.", "narrative": "Container Registrys provide a way for organizations to keep customized images of their development and infrastructure environment in private. However if these repositories are misconfigured or priviledge users credentials are compromise, attackers can potentially upload implanted containers which can be deployed across the organization. These searches allow operator to monitor who, when and what was uploaded to container registry.", "references": ["https://github.com/splunk/cloud-datamodel-security-research"], "tags": {"name": "Container Implantation Monitoring and Investigation", "analytic_story": "Container Implantation Monitoring and Investigation", "category": ["Cloud Security"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Security Monitoring", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1525", "mitre_attack_technique": "Implant Internal Image", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence"], "datamodels": [], "kill_chain_phases": ["Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - GCP GCR container uploaded - Rule", "ESCU - New container uploaded to AWS ECR - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Rico Valdez, Splunk", "author_name": "Rod Soto"}, {"name": "Credential Dumping", "id": "854d78bf-d0e2-4f4e-b05c-640905f86d7a", "version": 3, "date": "2020-02-04", "author": "Rico Valdez, Splunk", "description": "Uncover activity consistent with credential dumping, a technique wherein attackers compromise systems and attempt to obtain and exfiltrate passwords. The threat actors use these pilfered credentials to further escalate privileges and spread throughout a target environment. The included searches in this Analytic Story are designed to identify attempts to credential dumping.", "narrative": "Credential dumping&#151;gathering credentials from a target system, often hashed or encrypted&#151;is a common attack technique. Even though the credentials may not be in plain text, an attacker can still exfiltrate the data and set to cracking it offline, on their own systems. The threat actors target a variety of sources to extract them, including the Security Accounts Manager (SAM), Local Security Authority (LSA), NTDS from Domain Controllers, or the Group Policy Preference (GPP) files.\\\nOnce attackers obtain valid credentials, they use them to move throughout a target network with ease, discovering new systems and identifying assets of interest. Credentials obtained in this manner typically include those of privileged users, which may provide access to more sensitive information and system operations.\\\nThe detection searches in this Analytic Story monitor access to the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) process, the usage of shadowcopies for credential dumping and some other techniques for credential dumping.", "references": ["https://attack.mitre.org/wiki/Technique/T1003", "https://cyberwardog.blogspot.com/2017/03/chronicles-of-threat-hunter-hunting-for.html"], "tags": {"name": "Credential Dumping", "analytic_story": "Credential Dumping", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1003.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "LSASS Memory", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT28", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Blue Mockingbird", "Cleaver", "FIN6", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "GALLIUM", "HAFNIUM", "Indrik Spider", "Ke3chang", "Kimsuky", "Leafminer", "Leviathan", "Magic Hound", "MuddyWater", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "PLATINUM", "Sandworm Team", "Silence", "TEMP.Veles", "Threat Group-3390", "Whitefly"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1003", "mitre_attack_technique": "OS Credential Dumping", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT32", "APT39", "Axiom", "Frankenstein", "Leviathan", "Poseidon Group", "Sowbug", "Suckfly", "Tonto Team"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1003.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Security Account Manager", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Dragonfly 2.0", "GALLIUM", "Ke3chang", "Night Dragon", "Threat Group-3390", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1003.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "NTDS", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "Chimera", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN6", "Fox Kitten", "HAFNIUM", "Mustang Panda", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1112", "mitre_attack_technique": "Modify Registry", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "APT38", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN8", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Honeybee", "Kimsuky", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Silence", "Threat Group-3390", "Turla", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1059", "mitre_attack_technique": "Command and Scripting Interpreter", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "APT37", "APT39", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN5", "FIN6", "FIN7", "Fox Kitten", "Ke3chang", "OilRig", "Stealth Falcon", "Whitefly", "Windigo"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1059.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "PowerShell", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "CopyKittens", "DarkHydrus", "DarkVishnya", "Deep Panda", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "GOLD SOUTHFIELD", "Gallmaker", "Gorgon Group", "HAFNIUM", "Inception", "Indrik Spider", "Kimsuky", "Leviathan", "Magic Hound", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Poseidon Group", "Sandworm Team", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "Stealth Falcon", "TA459", "TA505", "TEMP.Veles", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Thrip", "Tonto Team", "Turla", "WIRTE", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access", "Defense Evasion", "Execution"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Exploitation", "Installation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Dump LSASS via procdump Rename - Rule", "ESCU - Unsigned Image Loaded by LSASS - Rule", "ESCU - Access LSASS Memory for Dump Creation - Rule", "ESCU - Attempted Credential Dump From Registry via Reg exe - Rule", "ESCU - Create Remote Thread into LSASS - Rule", "ESCU - Creation of lsass Dump with Taskmgr - Rule", "ESCU - Creation of Shadow Copy - Rule", "ESCU - Creation of Shadow Copy with wmic and powershell - Rule", "ESCU - Credential Dumping via Copy Command from Shadow Copy - Rule", "ESCU - Credential Dumping via Symlink to Shadow Copy - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Copy of ShadowCopy with Script Block Logging - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Credential Dumping through LSASS access - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Mimikatz Using Loaded Images - Rule", "ESCU - Dump LSASS via comsvcs DLL - Rule", "ESCU - Dump LSASS via procdump - Rule", "ESCU - Enable WDigest UseLogonCredential Registry - Rule", "ESCU - Esentutl SAM Copy - Rule", "ESCU - Extraction of Registry Hives - Rule", "ESCU - Ntdsutil Export NTDS - Rule", "ESCU - SAM Database File Access Attempt - Rule", "ESCU - SecretDumps Offline NTDS Dumping Tool - Rule", "ESCU - Set Default PowerShell Execution Policy To Unrestricted or Bypass - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Hunting System Account Targeting Lsass - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Non-System Account Targeting Lsass - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Possible Credential Dumping - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Investigate Failed Logins for Multiple Destinations - Response Task", "ESCU - Investigate Pass the Hash Attempts - Response Task", "ESCU - Investigate Pass the Ticket Attempts - Response Task", "ESCU - Investigate Previous Unseen User - Response Task"], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Rico Valdez"}, {"name": "Data Destruction", "id": "4ae5c0d1-cebd-47d1-bfce-71bf096e38aa", "version": 1, "date": "2022-02-14", "author": "Teoderick Contreras, Splunk", "description": "Leverage searches that allow you to detect and investigate unusual activities that might relate to the data destruction, including deleting files, overwriting files, wiping disk and encrypting files.", "narrative": "Adversaries may use this technique to maximize the impact on the target organization in operations where network wide availability interruption is the goal.", "references": ["https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1485/", "https://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2018/09/unit42-xbash-combines-botnet-ransomware-coinmining-worm-targets-linux-windows/", "https://www.picussecurity.com/blog/a-brief-history-and-further-technical-analysis-of-sodinokibi-ransomware"], "tags": {"name": "Data Destruction", "analytic_story": "Data Destruction", "category": ["Malware"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1059.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Windows Command Shell", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT18", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT37", "APT38", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "Dark Caracal", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Higaisa", "Honeybee", "Indrik Spider", "Ke3chang", "Lazarus Group", "Machete", "Magic Hound", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Rancor", "Sandworm Team", "Silence", "Sowbug", "Suckfly", "TA505", "TA551", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-1314", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "Wizard Spider", "ZIRCONIUM", "admin@338", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1059", "mitre_attack_technique": "Command and Scripting Interpreter", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "APT37", "APT39", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN5", "FIN6", "FIN7", "Fox Kitten", "Ke3chang", "OilRig", "Stealth Falcon", "Whitefly", "Windigo"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1021", "mitre_attack_technique": "Remote Services", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Lateral Movement"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1021.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "SMB/Windows Admin Shares", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Lateral Movement"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT3", "APT32", "APT39", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Deep Panda", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Ke3chang", "Lazarus Group", "Operation Wocao", "Orangeworm", "Sandworm Team", "Threat Group-1314", "Turla", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1036", "mitre_attack_technique": "Masquerading", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT29", "APT32", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "PLATINUM", "TA551", "Windshift", "ZIRCONIUM", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1485", "mitre_attack_technique": "Data Destruction", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Impact"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT38", "Lazarus Group", "Sandworm Team"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1218", "mitre_attack_technique": "Signed Binary Proxy Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1218.010", "mitre_attack_technique": "Regsvr32", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "Blue Mockingbird", "Cobalt Group", "Deep Panda", "Inception", "Leviathan", "TA551", "WIRTE"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1543", "mitre_attack_technique": "Create or Modify System Process", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1112", "mitre_attack_technique": "Modify Registry", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "APT38", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN8", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Honeybee", "Kimsuky", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Silence", "Threat Group-3390", "Turla", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1561.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Disk Structure Wipe", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Impact"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT37", "APT38", "Lazarus Group", "Sandworm Team"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1561", "mitre_attack_technique": "Disk Wipe", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Impact"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Execution", "Impact", "Lateral Movement", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - CMD Carry Out String Command Parameter - Rule", "ESCU - Executable File Written in Administrative SMB Share - Rule", "ESCU - Executables Or Script Creation In Suspicious Path - Rule", "ESCU - Linux DD File Overwrite - Rule", "ESCU - Regsvr32 Silent and Install Param Dll Loading - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious Process File Path - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Disable Memory Crash Dump - Rule", "ESCU - Windows File Without Extension In Critical Folder - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Modify Show Compress Color And Info Tip Registry - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Raw Access To Disk Volume Partition - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Raw Access To Master Boot Record Drive - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Teoderick Contreras"}, {"name": "Data Exfiltration", "id": "66b0fe0c-1351-11eb-adc1-0242ac120002", "version": 1, "date": "2020-10-21", "author": "Shannon Davis, Splunk", "description": "The stealing of data by an adversary.", "narrative": "Exfiltration comes in many flavors.  Adversaries can collect data over encrypted or non-encrypted channels.  They can utilise Command and Control channels that are already in place to exfiltrate data.  They can use both standard data transfer protocols such as FTP, SCP, etc to exfiltrate data.  Or they can use non-standard protocols such as DNS, ICMP, etc with specially crafted fields to try and circumvent security technologies in place.", "references": ["https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0010/"], "tags": {"name": "Data Exfiltration", "analytic_story": "Data Exfiltration", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1537", "mitre_attack_technique": "Transfer Data to Cloud Account", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Exfiltration"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1114", "mitre_attack_technique": "Email Collection", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Collection"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Magic Hound", "Silent Librarian"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1114.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Email Forwarding Rule", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Collection"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Kimsuky", "Silent Librarian"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1048", "mitre_attack_technique": "Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Exfiltration"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1114.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Local Email Collection", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Collection"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "Chimera", "Magic Hound"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1566", "mitre_attack_technique": "Phishing", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Initial Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Dragonfly", "GOLD SOUTHFIELD"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1041", "mitre_attack_technique": "Exfiltration Over C2 Channel", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Exfiltration"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT3", "APT32", "APT39", "Chimera", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "Gamaredon Group", "Higaisa", "Ke3chang", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Leviathan", "MuddyWater", "Operation Wocao", "Sandworm Team", "Stealth Falcon", "Wizard Spider", "ZIRCONIUM"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1048.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Exfiltration Over Unencrypted/Obfuscated Non-C2 Protocol", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Exfiltration"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "APT33", "FIN6", "FIN8", "Lazarus Group", "OilRig", "Thrip", "Wizard Spider"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Collection", "Exfiltration", "Initial Access"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint", "Network_Traffic"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Detect shared ec2 snapshot - Rule", "ESCU - O365 PST export alert - Rule", "ESCU - O365 Suspicious Admin Email Forwarding - Rule", "ESCU - O365 Suspicious User Email Forwarding - Rule", "ESCU - DNS Exfiltration Using Nslookup App - Rule", "ESCU - Excessive Usage of NSLOOKUP App - Rule", "ESCU - Mailsniper Invoke functions - Rule", "ESCU - Gdrive suspicious file sharing - Rule", "ESCU - Detect SNICat SNI Exfiltration - Rule", "ESCU - Multiple Archive Files Http Post Traffic - Rule", "ESCU - Plain HTTP POST Exfiltrated Data - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task"], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Shannon Davis"}, {"name": "Data Protection", "id": "91c676cf-0b23-438d-abee-f6335e1fce33", "version": 1, "date": "2017-09-14", "author": "Bhavin Patel, Splunk", "description": "Fortify your data-protection arsenal--while continuing to ensure data confidentiality and integrity--with searches that monitor for and help you investigate possible signs of data exfiltration.", "narrative": "Attackers can leverage a variety of resources to compromise or exfiltrate enterprise data. Common exfiltration techniques include remote-access channels via low-risk, high-payoff active-collections operations and close-access operations using insiders and removable media. While this Analytic Story is not a comprehensive listing of all the methods by which attackers can exfiltrate data, it provides a useful starting point.", "references": ["https://www.cisecurity.org/controls/data-protection/", "https://www.sans.org/reading-room/whitepapers/dns/splunk-detect-dns-tunneling-37022", "https://umbrella.cisco.com/blog/2013/04/15/on-the-trail-of-malicious-dynamic-dns-domains/"], "tags": {"name": "Data Protection", "analytic_story": "Data Protection", "category": ["Abuse"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Security Monitoring", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1048.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Exfiltration Over Unencrypted/Obfuscated Non-C2 Protocol", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Exfiltration"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "APT33", "FIN6", "FIN8", "Lazarus Group", "OilRig", "Thrip", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1189", "mitre_attack_technique": "Drive-by Compromise", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Initial Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "APT37", "APT38", "Andariel", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Dark Caracal", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Elderwood", "Lazarus Group", "Leafminer", "Leviathan", "Machete", "PLATINUM", "PROMETHIUM", "Patchwork", "RTM", "Threat Group-3390", "Transparent Tribe", "Turla", "Windigo", "Windshift"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Exfiltration", "Initial Access"], "datamodels": ["Change_Analysis", "Network_Resolution"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Command & Control", "Installation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Detect USB device insertion - Rule", "ESCU - Detection of DNS Tunnels - Rule", "ESCU - Detect hosts connecting to dynamic domain providers - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get DNS Server History for a host - Response Task", "ESCU - Get DNS traffic ratio - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Info - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Responsible For The DNS Traffic - Response Task"], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Bhavin Patel"}, {"name": "Deobfuscate-Decode Files or Information", "id": "0bd01a54-8cbe-11eb-abcd-acde48001122", "version": 1, "date": "2021-03-24", "author": "Michael Haag, Splunk", "description": "Adversaries may use Obfuscated Files or Information to hide artifacts of an intrusion from analysis.", "narrative": "An example of obfuscated files is `Certutil.exe` usage to encode a portable executable to a certificate file, which is base64 encoded, to hide the originating file. There are many utilities cross-platform to encode using XOR, using compressed .cab files to hide contents and scripting languages that may perform similar native Windows tasks. Triaging an event related will require the capability to review related process events and file modifications. Using a tool such as CyberChef will assist with identifying the encoding that was used, and potentially assist with decoding the contents.", "references": ["https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1140/"], "tags": {"name": "Deobfuscate-Decode Files or Information", "analytic_story": "Deobfuscate-Decode Files or Information", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1140", "mitre_attack_technique": "Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT39", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Darkhotel", "Frankenstein", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Higaisa", "Honeybee", "Leviathan", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "OilRig", "Rocke", "Sandworm Team", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "WIRTE", "ZIRCONIUM", "menuPass"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - CertUtil With Decode Argument - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Michael Haag"}, {"name": "AWS Cryptomining", "id": "ced74200-8465-4bc3-bd2c-9a782eec6750", "version": 1, "date": "2018-03-08", "author": "David Dorsey, Splunk", "description": "Monitor your AWS EC2 instances for activities related to cryptojacking/cryptomining. New instances that originate from previously unseen regions, users who launch abnormally high numbers of instances, or EC2 instances started by previously unseen users are just a few examples of potentially malicious behavior.", "narrative": "Cryptomining is an intentionally difficult, resource-intensive business. Its complexity was designed into the process to ensure that the number of blocks mined each day would remain steady. So, it's par for the course that ambitious, but unscrupulous, miners make amassing the computing power of large enterprises--a practice known as cryptojacking--a top priority. \\\nCryptojacking has attracted an increasing amount of media attention since its explosion in popularity in the fall of 2017. The attacks have moved from in-browser exploits and mobile phones to enterprise cloud services, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS). It's difficult to determine exactly how widespread the practice has become, since bad actors continually evolve their ability to escape detection, including employing unlisted endpoints, moderating their CPU usage, and hiding the mining pool's IP address behind a free CDN. \\\nWhen malicious miners appropriate a cloud instance, often spinning up hundreds of new instances, the costs can become astronomical for the account holder. So, it is critically important to monitor your systems for suspicious activities that could indicate that your network has been infiltrated. \\\nThis Analytic Story is focused on detecting suspicious new instances in your EC2 environment to help prevent such a disaster. It contains detection searches that will detect when a previously unused instance type or AMI is used. It also contains support searches to build lookup files to ensure proper execution of the detection searches.", "references": ["https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/aws-security-best-practices.pdf"], "tags": {"name": "AWS Cryptomining", "analytic_story": "AWS Cryptomining", "category": ["Cloud Security"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Security Monitoring", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1078.004", "mitre_attack_technique": "Cloud Accounts", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Initial Access", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT33"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1535", "mitre_attack_technique": "Unused/Unsupported Cloud Regions", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Initial Access", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "datamodels": [], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Abnormally High AWS Instances Launched by User - Rule", "ESCU - Abnormally High AWS Instances Launched by User - MLTK - Rule", "ESCU - EC2 Instance Started In Previously Unseen Region - Rule", "ESCU - EC2 Instance Started With Previously Unseen AMI - Rule", "ESCU - EC2 Instance Started With Previously Unseen Instance Type - Rule", "ESCU - EC2 Instance Started With Previously Unseen User - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - AWS Investigate User Activities By ARN - Response Task", "ESCU - Get EC2 Instance Details by instanceId - Response Task", "ESCU - Get EC2 Launch Details - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task", "ESCU - Investigate AWS activities via region name - Response Task"], "baseline_names": ["ESCU - Baseline of Excessive AWS Instances Launched by User - MLTK", "ESCU - Previously Seen EC2 AMIs", "ESCU - Previously Seen EC2 Instance Types", "ESCU - Previously Seen EC2 Launches By User", "ESCU - Previously Seen AWS Regions"], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "David Dorsey"}, {"name": "AWS Suspicious Provisioning Activities", "id": "3338b567-3804-4261-9889-cf0ca4753c7f", "version": 1, "date": "2018-03-16", "author": "David Dorsey, Splunk", "description": "Monitor your AWS provisioning activities for behaviors originating from unfamiliar or unusual locations. These behaviors may indicate that malicious activities are occurring somewhere within your network.", "narrative": "Because most enterprise AWS activities originate from familiar geographic locations, monitoring for activity from unknown or unusual regions is an important security measure. This indicator can be especially useful in environments where it is impossible to add specific IPs to an allow list because they vary. \\\nThis Analytic Story was designed to provide you with flexibility in the precision you employ in specifying legitimate geographic regions. It can be as specific as an IP address or a city, or as broad as a region (think state) or an entire country. By determining how precise you want your geographical locations to be and monitoring for new locations that haven't previously accessed your environment, you can detect adversaries as they begin to probe your environment. Since there are legitimate reasons for activities from unfamiliar locations, this is not a standalone indicator. Nevertheless, location can be a relevant piece of information that you may wish to investigate further.", "references": ["https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/aws-security-best-practices.pdf"], "tags": {"name": "AWS Suspicious Provisioning Activities", "analytic_story": "AWS Suspicious Provisioning Activities", "category": ["Cloud Security"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Security Monitoring", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1535", "mitre_attack_technique": "Unused/Unsupported Cloud Regions", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "datamodels": [], "kill_chain_phases": ["Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - AWS Cloud Provisioning From Previously Unseen City - Rule", "ESCU - AWS Cloud Provisioning From Previously Unseen Country - Rule", "ESCU - AWS Cloud Provisioning From Previously Unseen IP Address - Rule", "ESCU - AWS Cloud Provisioning From Previously Unseen Region - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - AWS Investigate Security Hub alerts by dest - Response Task", "ESCU - AWS Investigate User Activities By ARN - Response Task", "ESCU - Get All AWS Activity From City - Response Task", "ESCU - Get All AWS Activity From Country - Response Task", "ESCU - Get All AWS Activity From IP Address - Response Task", "ESCU - Get All AWS Activity From Region - Response Task"], "baseline_names": ["ESCU - Previously Seen AWS Provisioning Activity Sources"], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "David Dorsey"}, {"name": "Common Phishing Frameworks", "id": "9a64ab44-9214-4639-8163-7eaa2621bd61", "version": 1, "date": "2019-04-29", "author": "Splunk Research Team, Splunk", "description": "Detect DNS and web requests to fake websites generated by the EvilGinx2 toolkit. These websites are designed to fool unwitting users who have clicked on a malicious link in a phishing email. ", "narrative": "As most people know, these emails use fraudulent domains, [email scraping](https://www.cyberscoop.com/emotet-trojan-phishing-scraping-templates-cofense-geodo/), familiar contact names inserted as senders, and other tactics to lure targets into clicking a malicious link, opening an attachment with a [nefarious payload](https://www.cyberscoop.com/emotet-trojan-phishing-scraping-templates-cofense-geodo/), or entering sensitive personal information that perpetrators may intercept. This attack technique requires a relatively low level of skill and allows adversaries to easily cast a wide net. Because phishing is a technique that relies on human psychology, you will never be able to eliminate this vulnerability 100%. But you can use automated detection to significantly reduce the risks.\\\nThis Analytic Story focuses on detecting signs of MiTM attacks enabled by [EvilGinx2](https://github.com/kgretzky/evilginx2), a toolkit that sets up a transparent proxy between the targeted site and the user. In this way, the attacker is able to intercept credentials and two-factor identification tokens. It employs a proxy template to allow a registered domain to impersonate targeted sites, such as Linkedin, Amazon, Okta, Github, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, Office 365, and others. It can even register SSL certificates and camouflage them via a URL shortener, making them difficult to detect. Searches in this story look for signs of MiTM attacks enabled by EvilGinx2.", "references": ["https://github.com/kgretzky/evilginx2", "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1192/", "https://breakdev.org/evilginx-advanced-phishing-with-two-factor-authentication-bypass/"], "tags": {"name": "Common Phishing Frameworks", "analytic_story": "Common Phishing Frameworks", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1566.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Spearphishing via Service", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Initial Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "Ajax Security Team", "Dark Caracal", "FIN6", "Magic Hound", "OilRig", "Windshift"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Initial Access"], "datamodels": ["Network_Resolution"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Command & Control", "Delivery"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Detect DNS requests to Phishing Sites leveraging EvilGinx2 - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get Certificate logs for a domain - Response Task"], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Splunk Research Team"}, {"name": "Host Redirection", "id": "2e8948a5-5239-406b-b56b-6c50fe268af4", "version": 1, "date": "2017-09-14", "author": "Rico Valdez, Splunk", "description": "Detect evidence of tactics used to redirect traffic from a host to a destination other than the one intended--potentially one that is part of an adversary's attack infrastructure. An example is redirecting communications regarding patches and updates or misleading users into visiting a malicious website.", "narrative": "Attackers will often attempt to manipulate client communications for nefarious purposes. In some cases, an attacker may endeavor to modify a local host file to redirect communications with resources (such as antivirus or system-update services) to prevent clients from receiving patches or updates. In other cases, an attacker might use this tactic to have the client connect to a site that looks like the intended site, but instead installs malware or collects information from the victim. Additionally, an attacker may redirect a victim in order to execute a MITM attack and observe communications.", "references": ["https://blog.malwarebytes.com/cybercrime/2016/09/hosts-file-hijacks/"], "tags": {"name": "Host Redirection", "analytic_story": "Host Redirection", "category": ["Abuse"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1048.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Exfiltration Over Unencrypted/Obfuscated Non-C2 Protocol", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Exfiltration"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "APT33", "FIN6", "FIN8", "Lazarus Group", "OilRig", "Thrip", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1071.004", "mitre_attack_technique": "DNS", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Command And Control"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT18", "APT39", "APT41", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "FIN7", "Ke3chang", "OilRig", "Tropic Trooper"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Command And Control", "Exfiltration"], "datamodels": ["Network_Resolution"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Command & Control"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Clients Connecting to Multiple DNS Servers - Rule", "ESCU - DNS Query Requests Resolved by Unauthorized DNS Servers - Rule", "ESCU - Windows hosts file modification - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get DNS Server History for a host - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task"], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Rico Valdez"}, {"name": "Kubernetes Sensitive Role Activity", "id": "8b3984d2-17b6-47e9-ba43-a3376e70fdcc", "version": 1, "date": "2020-05-20", "author": "Rod Soto, Splunk", "description": "This story addresses detection and response around Sensitive Role usage within a Kubernetes clusters against cluster resources and namespaces.", "narrative": "Kubernetes is the most used container orchestration platform, this orchestration platform contains sensitive roles within its architecture, specifically configmaps and secrets, if accessed by an attacker can lead to further compromise. These searches allow operator to detect suspicious requests against Kubernetes role activities", "references": ["https://www.splunk.com/en_us/blog/security/approaching-kubernetes-security-detecting-kubernetes-scan-with-splunk.html"], "tags": {"name": "Kubernetes Sensitive Role Activity", "analytic_story": "Kubernetes Sensitive Role Activity", "category": ["Cloud Security"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Security Monitoring", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [], "mitre_attack_tactics": [], "datamodels": [], "kill_chain_phases": ["Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Kubernetes AWS detect most active service accounts by pod - Rule", "ESCU - Kubernetes AWS detect RBAC authorization by account - Rule", "ESCU - Kubernetes AWS detect sensitive role access - Rule", "ESCU - Kubernetes Azure active service accounts by pod namespace - Rule", "ESCU - Kubernetes Azure detect RBAC authorization by account - Rule", "ESCU - Kubernetes Azure detect sensitive role access - Rule", "ESCU - Kubernetes GCP detect RBAC authorizations by account - Rule", "ESCU - Kubernetes GCP detect most active service accounts by pod - Rule", "ESCU - Kubernetes GCP detect sensitive role access - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task"], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Rod Soto"}, {"name": "Monitor Backup Solution", "id": "abe807c7-1eb6-4304-ac32-6e7aacdb891d", "version": 1, "date": "2017-09-12", "author": "David Dorsey, Splunk", "description": "Address common concerns when monitoring your backup processes. These searches can help you reduce risks from ransomware, device theft, or denial of physical access to a host by backing up data on endpoints.", "narrative": "Having backups is a standard best practice that helps ensure continuity of business operations.  Having mature backup processes can also help you reduce the risks of many security-related incidents and streamline your response processes. The detection searches in this Analytic Story will help you identify systems that have backup failures, as well as systems that have not been backed up for an extended period of time. The story will also return the notable event history and all of the backup logs for an endpoint.", "references": ["https://www.carbonblack.com/2016/03/04/tracking-locky-ransomware-using-carbon-black/"], "tags": {"name": "Monitor Backup Solution", "analytic_story": "Monitor Backup Solution", "category": ["Best Practices"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Compliance", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [], "mitre_attack_tactics": [], "datamodels": [], "kill_chain_phases": ["Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Extended Period Without Successful Netbackup Backups - Rule", "ESCU - Unsuccessful Netbackup backups - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - All backup logs for host - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task"], "baseline_names": ["ESCU - Monitor Successful Backups", "ESCU - Monitor Unsuccessful Backups"], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "David Dorsey"}, {"name": "Monitor for Unauthorized Software", "id": "8892a655-6205-43f7-abba-06460e38c8ae", "version": 1, "date": "2017-09-15", "author": "David Dorsey, Splunk", "description": "Identify and investigate prohibited/unauthorized software or processes that may be concealing malicious behavior within your environment. ", "narrative": "It is critical to identify unauthorized software and processes running on enterprise endpoints and determine whether they are likely to be malicious. This Analytic Story requires the user to populate the Interesting Processes table within Enterprise Security with prohibited processes. An included support search will augment this data, adding information on processes thought to be malicious. This search requires data from endpoint detection-and-response solutions, endpoint data sources (such as Sysmon), or Windows Event Logs--assuming that the Active Directory administrator has enabled process tracking within the System Event Audit Logs.\\\nIt is important to investigate any software identified as suspicious, in order to understand how it was installed or executed. Analyzing authentication logs or any historic notable events might elicit additional investigative leads of interest. For best results, schedule the search to run every two weeks. ", "references": ["https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democratic-national-committee/"], "tags": {"name": "Monitor for Unauthorized Software", "analytic_story": "Monitor for Unauthorized Software", "category": ["Best Practices"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Compliance", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1036.005", "mitre_attack_technique": "Match Legitimate Name or Location", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT28", "APT29", "APT32", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "BackdoorDiplomacy", "Blue Mockingbird", "Carbanak", "Chimera", "Darkhotel", "FIN7", "Ferocious Kitten", "Fox Kitten", "Indrik Spider", "Lazarus Group", "Machete", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Naikon", "PROMETHIUM", "Patchwork", "Poseidon Group", "Rocke", "Sandworm Team", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "Sowbug", "TEMP.Veles", "Transparent Tribe", "Tropic Trooper", "Whitefly", "admin@338", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1036", "mitre_attack_technique": "Masquerading", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT29", "APT32", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "PLATINUM", "TA551", "Windshift", "ZIRCONIUM", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1003", "mitre_attack_technique": "OS Credential Dumping", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT32", "APT39", "Axiom", "Frankenstein", "Leviathan", "Poseidon Group", "Sowbug", "Suckfly", "Tonto Team"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1595", "mitre_attack_technique": "Active Scanning", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Reconnaissance"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access", "Defense Evasion", "Reconnaissance"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Command & Control", "Installation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Prohibited Software On Endpoint - Rule", "ESCU - Attacker Tools On Endpoint - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Parent Process Info - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Info - Response Task"], "baseline_names": ["ESCU - Add Prohibited Processes to Enterprise Security"], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "David Dorsey"}, {"name": "Spectre And Meltdown Vulnerabilities", "id": "6d3306f6-bb2b-4219-8609-8efad64032f2", "version": 1, "date": "2018-01-08", "author": "David Dorsey, Splunk", "description": "Assess and mitigate your systems' vulnerability to Spectre and Meltdown exploitation with the searches in this Analytic Story.", "narrative": "Meltdown and Spectre exploit critical vulnerabilities in modern CPUs that allow unintended access to data in memory. This Analytic Story will help you identify the systems can be patched for these vulnerabilities, as well as those that still need to be patched.", "references": ["https://meltdownattack.com/"], "tags": {"name": "Spectre And Meltdown Vulnerabilities", "analytic_story": "Spectre And Meltdown Vulnerabilities", "category": ["Vulnerability"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Security Monitoring", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [], "mitre_attack_tactics": [], "datamodels": ["Vulnerabilities"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Spectre and Meltdown Vulnerable Systems - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task"], "baseline_names": ["ESCU - Systems Ready for Spectre-Meltdown Windows Patch"], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "David Dorsey"}, {"name": "Suspicious AWS EC2 Activities", "id": "2e8948a5-5239-406b-b56b-6c50f1268af3", "version": 1, "date": "2018-02-09", "author": "Bhavin Patel, Splunk", "description": "Use the searches in this Analytic Story to monitor your AWS EC2 instances for evidence of anomalous activity and suspicious behaviors, such as EC2 instances that originate from unusual locations or those launched by previously unseen users (among others). Included investigative searches will help you probe more deeply, when the information warrants it.", "narrative": "AWS CloudTrail is an AWS service that helps you enable governance, compliance, and risk auditing within your AWS account. Actions taken by a user, role, or an AWS service are recorded as events in CloudTrail. It is crucial for a company to monitor events and actions taken in the AWS Console, AWS command-line interface, and AWS SDKs and APIs to ensure that your EC2 instances are not vulnerable to attacks. This Analytic Story identifies suspicious activities in your AWS EC2 instances and helps you respond and investigate those activities.", "references": ["https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/aws-security-best-practices.pdf"], "tags": {"name": "Suspicious AWS EC2 Activities", "analytic_story": "Suspicious AWS EC2 Activities", "category": ["Cloud Security"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Security Monitoring", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1078.004", "mitre_attack_technique": "Cloud Accounts", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Initial Access", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT33"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1535", "mitre_attack_technique": "Unused/Unsupported Cloud Regions", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Initial Access", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "datamodels": [], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Abnormally High AWS Instances Launched by User - Rule", "ESCU - Abnormally High AWS Instances Launched by User - MLTK - Rule", "ESCU - Abnormally High AWS Instances Terminated by User - Rule", "ESCU - Abnormally High AWS Instances Terminated by User - MLTK - Rule", "ESCU - EC2 Instance Started In Previously Unseen Region - Rule", "ESCU - EC2 Instance Started With Previously Unseen User - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - AWS Investigate Security Hub alerts by dest - Response Task", "ESCU - AWS Investigate User Activities By ARN - Response Task", "ESCU - Get EC2 Instance Details by instanceId - Response Task", "ESCU - Get EC2 Launch Details - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task", "ESCU - Investigate AWS activities via region name - Response Task"], "baseline_names": ["ESCU - Baseline of Excessive AWS Instances Launched by User - MLTK", "ESCU - Baseline of Excessive AWS Instances Terminated by User - MLTK", "ESCU - Previously Seen EC2 Launches By User", "ESCU - Previously Seen AWS Regions"], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Bhavin Patel"}, {"name": "Unusual AWS EC2 Modifications", "id": "73de57ef-0dfc-411f-b1e7-fa24428aeae0", "version": 1, "date": "2018-04-09", "author": "David Dorsey, Splunk", "description": "Identify unusual changes to your AWS EC2 instances that may indicate malicious activity. Modifications to your EC2 instances by previously unseen users is an example of an activity that may warrant further investigation.", "narrative": "A common attack technique is to infiltrate a cloud instance and make modifications. The adversary can then secure access to your infrastructure or hide their activities. So it's important to stay alert to changes that may indicate that your environment has been compromised. \\\n Searches within this Analytic Story can help you detect the presence of a threat by monitoring for EC2 instances that have been created or changed--either by users that have never previously performed these activities or by known users who modify or create instances in a way that have not been done before. This story also provides investigative searches that help you go deeper once you detect suspicious behavior.", "references": ["https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/aws-security-best-practices.pdf"], "tags": {"name": "Unusual AWS EC2 Modifications", "analytic_story": "Unusual AWS EC2 Modifications", "category": ["Cloud Security"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Security Monitoring", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1078.004", "mitre_attack_technique": "Cloud Accounts", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Initial Access", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT33"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Initial Access", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "datamodels": [], "kill_chain_phases": ["Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - EC2 Instance Modified With Previously Unseen User - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - AWS Investigate User Activities By ARN - Response Task", "ESCU - Get EC2 Instance Details by instanceId - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task"], "baseline_names": ["ESCU - Previously Seen EC2 Modifications By User"], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "David Dorsey"}, {"name": "Web Fraud Detection", "id": "18bb45b9-7684-45c6-9e97-1fdd0d98c0a7", "version": 1, "date": "2018-10-08", "author": "Jim Apger, Splunk", "description": "Monitor your environment for activity consistent with common attack techniques bad actors use when attempting to compromise web servers or other web-related assets.", "narrative": "The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) defines Internet fraud as the use of Internet services or software with Internet access to defraud victims or to otherwise take advantage of them. According to the Bureau, Internet crime schemes are used to steal millions of dollars each year from victims and continue to plague the Internet through various methods. The agency includes phishing scams, data breaches, Denial of Service (DOS) attacks, email account compromise, malware, spoofing, and ransomware in this category.\\\nThese crimes are not the fraud itself, but rather the attack techniques commonly employed by fraudsters in their pursuit of data that enables them to commit malicious actssuch as obtaining and using stolen credit cards. They represent a serious problem that is steadily increasing and not likely to go away anytime soon.\\\nWhen developing a strategy for preventing fraud in your environment, its important to  look across all of your web services for evidence that attackers are abusing enterprise resources to enumerate systems, harvest data for secondary fraudulent activity, or abuse terms of service.This Analytic Story looks for evidence of common Internet attack techniques that could be indicative of web fraud in your environmentincluding account harvesting, anomalous user clickspeed, and password sharing across accounts, to name just a few.\\\nThe account-harvesting search focuses on web pages used for user-account registration. It detects the creation of a large number of user accounts using the same email domain name, a type of activity frequently seen in advance of a fraud campaign.\\\nThe anomalous clickspeed search looks for users who are moving through your website at a faster-than-normal speed or with a perfect click cadence (high periodicity or low standard deviation), which could indicate that the user is a script, not an actual human.\\\nAnother search detects incidents wherein a single password is used across multiple accounts, which may indicate that a fraudster has infiltrated your environment and embedded a common password within a script.", "references": ["https://www.fbi.gov/scams-and-safety/common-fraud-schemes/internet-fraud", "https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2017-internet-crime-report-released-050718"], "tags": {"name": "Web Fraud Detection", "analytic_story": "Web Fraud Detection", "category": ["Abuse"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Fraud Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1136", "mitre_attack_technique": "Create Account", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Indrik Spider", "Sandworm Team"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1078", "mitre_attack_technique": "Valid Accounts", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Initial Access", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT18", "APT28", "APT29", "APT33", "APT39", "APT41", "Carbanak", "Chimera", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN4", "FIN5", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "GALLIUM", "Leviathan", "Night Dragon", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "PittyTiger", "Sandworm Team", "Silence", "Silent Librarian", "Suckfly", "TEMP.Veles", "Threat Group-3390", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Initial Access", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "datamodels": [], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Web Fraud - Account Harvesting - Rule", "ESCU - Web Fraud - Anomalous User Clickspeed - Rule", "ESCU - Web Fraud - Password Sharing Across Accounts - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get Emails From Specific Sender - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Web Session Information via session id - Response Task"], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Jim Apger"}, {"name": "Detect Zerologon Attack", "id": "5d14a962-569e-4578-939f-f386feb63ce4", "version": 1, "date": "2020-09-18", "author": "Rod Soto, Jose Hernandez, Stan Miskowicz, David Dorsey, Shannon Davis Splunk", "description": "Uncover activity related to the execution of Zerologon CVE-2020-11472, a technique wherein attackers target a Microsoft Windows Domain Controller to reset its computer account password. The result from this attack is attackers can now provide themselves high privileges and take over Domain Controller. The included searches in this Analytic Story are designed to identify attempts to reset Domain Controller Computer Account via exploit code remotely or via the use of tool Mimikatz as payload carrier.", "narrative": "This attack is a privilege escalation technique, where attacker targets a Netlogon secure channel connection to a domain controller, using Netlogon Remote Protocol (MS-NRPC). This vulnerability exposes vulnerable Windows Domain Controllers to be targeted via unaunthenticated RPC calls which eventually reset Domain Contoller computer account ($) providing the attacker the opportunity to exfil domain controller credential secrets and assign themselve high privileges that can lead to domain controller and potentially complete network takeover. The detection searches in this Analytic Story use Windows Event viewer events and Sysmon events to detect attack execution, these searches monitor access to the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) process which is an indicator of the use of Mimikatz tool which has bee updated to carry this attack payload.", "references": ["https://attack.mitre.org/wiki/Technique/T1003", "https://github.com/SecuraBV/CVE-2020-1472", "https://www.secura.com/blog/zero-logon", "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1472"], "tags": {"name": "Detect Zerologon Attack", "analytic_story": "Detect Zerologon Attack", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1003.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "LSASS Memory", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT28", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Blue Mockingbird", "Cleaver", "FIN6", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "GALLIUM", "HAFNIUM", "Indrik Spider", "Ke3chang", "Kimsuky", "Leafminer", "Leviathan", "Magic Hound", "MuddyWater", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "PLATINUM", "Sandworm Team", "Silence", "TEMP.Veles", "Threat Group-3390", "Whitefly"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1003", "mitre_attack_technique": "OS Credential Dumping", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT32", "APT39", "Axiom", "Frankenstein", "Leviathan", "Poseidon Group", "Sowbug", "Suckfly", "Tonto Team"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1210", "mitre_attack_technique": "Exploitation of Remote Services", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Lateral Movement"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "FIN7", "Fox Kitten", "Threat Group-3390", "Tonto Team", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1190", "mitre_attack_technique": "Exploit Public-Facing Application", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Initial Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT29", "APT39", "APT41", "Axiom", "BackdoorDiplomacy", "BlackTech", "Blue Mockingbird", "Fox Kitten", "GALLIUM", "GOLD SOUTHFIELD", "Night Dragon", "Operation Wocao", "Rocke", "Volatile Cedar", "menuPass"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access", "Initial Access", "Lateral Movement"], "datamodels": [], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Detect Credential Dumping through LSASS access - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Mimikatz Using Loaded Images - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Possible Credential Dumping - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Computer Changed with Anonymous Account - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Zerologon via Zeek - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task"], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Jose Hernandez, Stan Miskowicz, David Dorsey, Shannon Davis Splunk", "author_name": "Rod Soto"}, {"name": "Dev Sec Ops", "id": "0ca8c38e-631e-4b81-940c-f9c5450ce41e", "version": 1, "date": "2021-08-18", "author": "Patrick Bareiss, Splunk", "description": "This story is focused around detecting attacks on a DevSecOps lifeccycle which consists of the phases plan, code, build, test, release, deploy, operate and monitor.", "narrative": "DevSecOps is a collaborative framework, which thinks about application and infrastructure security from the start. This means that security tools are part of the continuous integration and continuous deployment pipeline. In this analytics story, we focused on detections around the tools used in this framework such as GitHub as a version control system, GDrive for the documentation, CircleCI as the CI/CD pipeline, Kubernetes as the container execution engine and multiple security tools such as Semgrep and Kube-Hunter.", "references": ["https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/devops/what-is-devsecops"], "tags": {"name": "Dev Sec Ops", "analytic_story": "Dev Sec Ops", "category": ["Cloud Security"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Security Monitoring", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1204.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Malicious Image", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["TeamTNT"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1204", "mitre_attack_technique": "User Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1554", "mitre_attack_technique": "Compromise Client Software Binary", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1199", "mitre_attack_technique": "Trusted Relationship", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Initial Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT29", "GOLD SOUTHFIELD", "Sandworm Team", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1195.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Compromise Software Dependencies and Development Tools", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Initial Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1195", "mitre_attack_technique": "Supply Chain Compromise", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Initial Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1567.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Exfiltration to Cloud Storage", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Exfiltration"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Chimera", "FIN7", "HAFNIUM", "Leviathan", "Turla", "ZIRCONIUM"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1567", "mitre_attack_technique": "Exfiltration Over Web Service", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Exfiltration"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1566.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Spearphishing Attachment", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Initial Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT-C-36", "APT1", "APT12", "APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT30", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "Ajax Security Team", "Andariel", "BRONZE BUTLER", "BlackTech", "Cobalt Group", "DarkHydrus", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Elderwood", "FIN4", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Ferocious Kitten", "Frankenstein", "Gallmaker", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Higaisa", "Inception", "IndigoZebra", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Leviathan", "Machete", "Mofang", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Naikon", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "PLATINUM", "Patchwork", "RTM", "Rancor", "Sandworm Team", "Sharpshooter", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "TA459", "TA505", "TA551", "The White Company", "Tonto Team", "Transparent Tribe", "Tropic Trooper", "Windshift", "Wizard Spider", "admin@338", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1566", "mitre_attack_technique": "Phishing", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Initial Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Dragonfly", "GOLD SOUTHFIELD"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1048.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Exfiltration Over Unencrypted/Obfuscated Non-C2 Protocol", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Exfiltration"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "APT33", "FIN6", "FIN8", "Lazarus Group", "OilRig", "Thrip", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1048", "mitre_attack_technique": "Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Exfiltration"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1212", "mitre_attack_technique": "Exploitation for Credential Access", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1526", "mitre_attack_technique": "Cloud Service Discovery", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Discovery"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access", "Discovery", "Execution", "Exfiltration", "Initial Access", "Persistence"], "datamodels": [], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - AWS ECR Container Scanning Findings High - Rule", "ESCU - AWS ECR Container Scanning Findings Low Informational Unknown - Rule", "ESCU - AWS ECR Container Scanning Findings Medium - Rule", "ESCU - AWS ECR Container Upload Outside Business Hours - Rule", "ESCU - AWS ECR Container Upload Unknown User - Rule", "ESCU - Circle CI Disable Security Job - Rule", "ESCU - Circle CI Disable Security Step - Rule", "ESCU - Correlation by Repository and Risk - Rule", "ESCU - Correlation by User and Risk - Rule", "ESCU - Github Commit Changes In Master - Rule", "ESCU - Github Commit In Develop - Rule", "ESCU - GitHub Dependabot Alert - Rule", "ESCU - GitHub Pull Request from Unknown User - Rule", "ESCU - Gsuite Drive Share In External Email - Rule", "ESCU - GSuite Email Suspicious Attachment - Rule", "ESCU - Gsuite Email Suspicious Subject With Attachment - Rule", "ESCU - Gsuite Email With Known Abuse Web Service Link - Rule", "ESCU - Gsuite Outbound Email With Attachment To External Domain - Rule", "ESCU - Gsuite Suspicious Shared File Name - Rule", "ESCU - Kubernetes Nginx Ingress LFI - Rule", "ESCU - Kubernetes Nginx Ingress RFI - Rule", "ESCU - Kubernetes Scanner Image Pulling - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Patrick Bareiss"}, {"name": "DHS Report TA18-074A", "id": "0c016e5c-88be-4e2c-8c6c-c2b55b4fb4ef", "version": 2, "date": "2020-01-22", "author": "Rico Valdez, Splunk", "description": "Monitor for suspicious activities associated with DHS Technical Alert US-CERT TA18-074A. Some of the activities that adversaries used in these compromises included spearfishing attacks, malware, watering-hole domains, many and more.", "narrative": "The frequency of nation-state cyber attacks has increased significantly over the last decade. Employing numerous tactics and techniques, these attacks continue to escalate in complexity. \\\nThere is a wide range of motivations for these state-sponsored hacks, including stealing valuable corporate, military, or diplomatic data&#1151;all of which could confer advantages in various arenas. They may also target critical infrastructure. \\\nOne joint Technical Alert (TA) issued by the Department of Homeland and the FBI in mid-March of 2018 attributed some cyber activity targeting utility infrastructure to operatives sponsored by the Russian government. The hackers executed spearfishing attacks, installed malware, employed watering-hole domains, and more. While they caused no physical damage, the attacks provoked fears that a nation-state could turn off water, redirect power, or compromise a nuclear power plant.\\\nSuspicious activities--spikes in SMB traffic, processes that launch netsh (to modify the network configuration), suspicious registry modifications, and many more--may all be events you may wish to investigate further. While the use of these technique may be an indication that a nation-state actor is attempting to compromise your environment, it is important to note that these techniques are often employed by other groups, as well.", "references": ["https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA18-074A"], "tags": {"name": "DHS Report TA18-074A", "analytic_story": "DHS Report TA18-074A", "category": ["Malware"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1059.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "PowerShell", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "CopyKittens", "DarkHydrus", "DarkVishnya", "Deep Panda", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "GOLD SOUTHFIELD", "Gallmaker", "Gorgon Group", "HAFNIUM", "Inception", "Indrik Spider", "Kimsuky", "Leviathan", "Magic Hound", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Poseidon Group", "Sandworm Team", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "Stealth Falcon", "TA459", "TA505", "TEMP.Veles", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Thrip", "Tonto Team", "Turla", "WIRTE", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1059.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Windows Command Shell", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT18", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT37", "APT38", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "Dark Caracal", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Higaisa", "Honeybee", "Indrik Spider", "Ke3chang", "Lazarus Group", "Machete", "Magic Hound", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Rancor", "Sandworm Team", "Silence", "Sowbug", "Suckfly", "TA505", "TA551", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-1314", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "Wizard Spider", "ZIRCONIUM", "admin@338", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1136.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Local Account", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT3", "APT39", "APT41", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Fox Kitten", "Leafminer", "TeamTNT"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1136", "mitre_attack_technique": "Create Account", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Indrik Spider", "Sandworm Team"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1021", "mitre_attack_technique": "Remote Services", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Lateral Movement"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1021.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "SMB/Windows Admin Shares", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Lateral Movement"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT3", "APT32", "APT39", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Deep Panda", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Ke3chang", "Lazarus Group", "Operation Wocao", "Orangeworm", "Sandworm Team", "Threat Group-1314", "Turla", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1569", "mitre_attack_technique": "System Services", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1569.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Service Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "FIN6", "Honeybee", "Ke3chang", "Operation Wocao", "Silence", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1059", "mitre_attack_technique": "Command and Scripting Interpreter", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "APT37", "APT39", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN5", "FIN6", "FIN7", "Fox Kitten", "Ke3chang", "OilRig", "Stealth Falcon", "Whitefly", "Windigo"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1562.004", "mitre_attack_technique": "Disable or Modify System Firewall", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "APT38", "Carbanak", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Operation Wocao", "Rocke", "TeamTNT"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1562", "mitre_attack_technique": "Impair Defenses", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1547.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT18", "APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Cobalt Group", "Dark Caracal", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Higaisa", "Honeybee", "Inception", "Ke3chang", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Leviathan", "Magic Hound", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Naikon", "PROMETHIUM", "Patchwork", "Putter Panda", "RTM", "Rocke", "Sharpshooter", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "Windshift", "Wizard Spider", "ZIRCONIUM"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1547", "mitre_attack_technique": "Boot or Logon Autostart Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1543.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Windows Service", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT3", "APT32", "APT38", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Carbanak", "Cobalt Group", "DarkVishnya", "FIN7", "Honeybee", "Ke3chang", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "PROMETHIUM", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1543", "mitre_attack_technique": "Create or Modify System Process", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1053.005", "mitre_attack_technique": "Scheduled Task", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT-C-36", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "CostaRicto", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "Gamaredon Group", "Higaisa", "Machete", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Naikon", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Rancor", "Silence", "Stealth Falcon", "TEMP.Veles", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1053", "mitre_attack_technique": "Scheduled Task/Job", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1204", "mitre_attack_technique": "User Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1204.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Malicious File", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT-C-36", "APT12", "APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT30", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT38", "APT39", "Ajax Security Team", "Andariel", "BRONZE BUTLER", "BlackTech", "Cobalt Group", "Dark Caracal", "DarkHydrus", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Elderwood", "FIN4", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Ferocious Kitten", "Frankenstein", "Gallmaker", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Higaisa", "Inception", "IndigoZebra", "Indrik Spider", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Leviathan", "Machete", "Magic Hound", "Mofang", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Naikon", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "PLATINUM", "PROMETHIUM", "Patchwork", "RTM", "Rancor", "Sandworm Team", "Sharpshooter", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "TA459", "TA505", "TA551", "The White Company", "Tonto Team", "Transparent Tribe", "Tropic Trooper", "Whitefly", "Windshift", "Wizard Spider", "admin@338", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1112", "mitre_attack_technique": "Modify Registry", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "APT38", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN8", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Honeybee", "Kimsuky", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Silence", "Threat Group-3390", "Turla", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1071.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "File Transfer Protocols", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Command And Control"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT41", "Honeybee", "Kimsuky", "SilverTerrier"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1071", "mitre_attack_technique": "Application Layer Protocol", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Command And Control"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Dragonfly 2.0", "Magic Hound", "Rocke", "TeamTNT"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Command And Control", "Defense Evasion", "Execution", "Lateral Movement", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint", "Network_Traffic"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Command & Control", "Exploitation", "Installation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - First time seen command line argument - Rule", "ESCU - Create local admin accounts using net exe - Rule", "ESCU - Detect New Local Admin account - Rule", "ESCU - Detect PsExec With accepteula Flag - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Renamed PSExec - Rule", "ESCU - Malicious PowerShell Process - Execution Policy Bypass - Rule", "ESCU - Processes launching netsh - Rule", "ESCU - Registry Keys Used For Persistence - Rule", "ESCU - Sc exe Manipulating Windows Services - Rule", "ESCU - Scheduled Task Deleted Or Created via CMD - Rule", "ESCU - Single Letter Process On Endpoint - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious Reg exe Process - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Outbound SMB Traffic - Rule", "ESCU - SMB Traffic Spike - Rule", "ESCU - SMB Traffic Spike - MLTK - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Parent Process Info - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process File Activity - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Info - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Information For Port Activity - Response Task"], "baseline_names": ["ESCU - Baseline of SMB Traffic - MLTK", "ESCU - Previously seen command line arguments"], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Rico Valdez"}, {"name": "Disabling Security Tools", "id": "fcc27099-46a0-46b0-a271-5c7dab56b6f1", "version": 2, "date": "2020-02-04", "author": "Rico Valdez, Splunk", "description": "Looks for activities and techniques associated with the disabling of security tools on a Windows system, such as suspicious `reg.exe` processes, processes launching netsh, and many others.", "narrative": "Attackers employ a variety of tactics in order to avoid detection and operate without barriers. This often involves modifying the configuration of security tools to get around them or explicitly disabling them to prevent them from running. This Analytic Story includes searches that look for activity consistent with attackers attempting to disable various security mechanisms. Such activity may involve monitoring for suspicious registry activity, as this is where much of the configuration for Windows and various other programs reside, or explicitly attempting to shut down security-related services. Other times, attackers attempt various tricks to prevent specific programs from running, such as adding the certificates with which the security tools are signed to a block list (which would prevent them from running).", "references": ["https://attack.mitre.org/wiki/Technique/T1089", "https://blog.malwarebytes.com/cybercrime/2015/11/vonteera-adware-uses-certificates-to-disable-anti-malware/", "https://www.operationblockbuster.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Operation-Blockbuster-Tools-Report.pdf"], "tags": {"name": "Disabling Security Tools", "analytic_story": "Disabling Security Tools", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Security Monitoring", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1553.004", "mitre_attack_technique": "Install Root Certificate", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1553", "mitre_attack_technique": "Subvert Trust Controls", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1562.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Disable or Modify Tools", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "BRONZE BUTLER", "FIN6", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Indrik Spider", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "MuddyWater", "Night Dragon", "Putter Panda", "Rocke", "TeamTNT", "Turla", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1562", "mitre_attack_technique": "Impair Defenses", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1562.004", "mitre_attack_technique": "Disable or Modify System Firewall", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "APT38", "Carbanak", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Operation Wocao", "Rocke", "TeamTNT"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1543.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Windows Service", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT3", "APT32", "APT38", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Carbanak", "Cobalt Group", "DarkVishnya", "FIN7", "Honeybee", "Ke3chang", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "PROMETHIUM", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1543", "mitre_attack_technique": "Create or Modify System Process", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1112", "mitre_attack_technique": "Modify Registry", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "APT38", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN8", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Honeybee", "Kimsuky", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Silence", "Threat Group-3390", "Turla", "Wizard Spider"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Installation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Attempt To Add Certificate To Untrusted Store - Rule", "ESCU - Attempt To Stop Security Service - Rule", "ESCU - Processes launching netsh - Rule", "ESCU - Sc exe Manipulating Windows Services - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious Reg exe Process - Rule", "ESCU - Unload Sysmon Filter Driver - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Parent Process Info - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Info - Response Task"], "baseline_names": ["ESCU - Baseline of SMB Traffic - MLTK", "ESCU - Previously seen command line arguments"], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Rico Valdez"}, {"name": "DNS Amplification Attacks", "id": "a563972b-d2e2-4978-b6ca-6e83e24af4d3", "version": 1, "date": "2016-09-13", "author": "Bhavin Patel, Splunk", "description": "DNS poses a serious threat as a Denial of Service (DOS) amplifier, if it responds to `ANY` queries. This Analytic Story can help you detect attackers who may be abusing your company's DNS infrastructure to launch amplification attacks, causing Denial of Service to other victims.", "narrative": "The Domain Name System (DNS) is the protocol used to map domain names to IP addresses. It has been proven to work very well for its intended function. However if DNS is misconfigured, servers can be abused by attackers to levy amplification or redirection attacks against victims. Because DNS responses to `ANY` queries are so much larger than the queries themselves--and can be made with a UDP packet, which does not require a handshake--attackers can spoof the source address of the packet and cause much more data to be sent to the victim than if they sent the traffic themselves. The `ANY` requests are will be larger than normal DNS server requests, due to the fact that the server provides significant details, such as MX records and associated IP addresses. A large volume of this traffic can result in a DOS on the victim's machine. This misconfiguration leads to two possible victims, the first being the DNS servers participating in an attack and the other being the hosts that are the targets of the DOS attack.\\\nThe search in this story can help you to detect if attackers are abusing your company's DNS infrastructure to launch DNS amplification attacks causing Denial of Service to other victims.", "references": ["https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA13-088A", "https://www.imperva.com/learn/application-security/dns-amplification/"], "tags": {"name": "DNS Amplification Attacks", "analytic_story": "DNS Amplification Attacks", "category": ["Abuse"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Security Monitoring", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1498", "mitre_attack_technique": "Network Denial of Service", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Impact"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1498.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Reflection Amplification", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Impact"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Impact"], "datamodels": ["Network_Resolution"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Large Volume of DNS ANY Queries - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task"], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Bhavin Patel"}, {"name": "DNS Hijacking", "id": "8169f17b-ef68-4b59-aa28-586907301221", "version": 1, "date": "2020-02-04", "author": "Bhavin Patel, Splunk", "description": "Secure your environment against DNS hijacks with searches that help you detect and investigate unauthorized changes to DNS records.", "narrative": "Dubbed the Achilles heel of the Internet (see https://www.f5.com/labs/articles/threat-intelligence/dns-is-still-the-achilles-heel-of-the-internet-25613), DNS plays a critical role in routing web traffic but is notoriously vulnerable to attack. One reason is its distributed nature. It relies on unstructured connections between millions of clients and servers over inherently insecure protocols.\\\nThe gravity and extent of the importance of securing DNS from attacks is undeniable. The fallout of compromised DNS can be disastrous. Not only can hackers bring down an entire business, they can intercept confidential information, emails, and login credentials, as well. \\\nOn January 22, 2019, the US Department of Homeland Security 2019's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) raised awareness of some high-profile DNS hijacking attacks against infrastructure, both in the United States and abroad. It issued Emergency Directive 19-01 (see https://cyber.dhs.gov/ed/19-01/), which summarized the activity and required government agencies to take the following four actions, all within 10 days: \\\n1. For all .gov or other agency-managed domains, audit public DNS records on all authoritative and secondary DNS servers, verify that they resolve to the intended location or report them to CISA.\\\n1. Update the passwords for all accounts on systems that can make changes to each agency 2019's DNS records.\\\n1. Implement multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all accounts on systems that can make changes to each agency's 2019 DNS records or, if impossible, provide CISA with the names of systems, the reasons why MFA cannot be enabled within the required timeline, and an ETA for when it can be enabled.\\\n1. CISA will begin regular delivery of newly added certificates to Certificate Transparency (CT) logs for agency domains via the Cyber Hygiene service. Upon receipt, agencies must immediately begin monitoring CT log data for certificates issued that they did not request. If an agency confirms that a certificate was unauthorized, it must report the certificate to the issuing certificate authority and to CISA. Of course, it makes sense to put equivalent actions in place within your environment, as well. \\\nIn DNS hijacking, the attacker assumes control over an account or makes use of a DNS service exploit to make changes to DNS records. Once they gain access, attackers can substitute their own MX records, name-server records, and addresses, redirecting emails and traffic through their infrastructure, where they can read, copy, or modify information seen. They can also generate valid encryption certificates to help them avoid browser-certificate checks. In one notable attack on the Internet service provider, GoDaddy, the hackers altered Sender Policy Framework (SPF) records a relatively minor change that did not inflict excessive damage but allowed for more effective spam campaigns.\\\nThe searches in this Analytic Story help you detect and investigate activities that may indicate that DNS hijacking has taken place within your environment.", "references": ["https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2017/09/apt33-insights-into-iranian-cyber-espionage.html", "https://umbrella.cisco.com/blog/2013/04/15/on-the-trail-of-malicious-dynamic-dns-domains/", "http://www.noip.com/blog/2014/07/11/dynamic-dns-can-use-2/", "https://www.splunk.com/blog/2015/08/04/detecting-dynamic-dns-domains-in-splunk.html"], "tags": {"name": "DNS Hijacking", "analytic_story": "DNS Hijacking", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1048.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Exfiltration Over Unencrypted/Obfuscated Non-C2 Protocol", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Exfiltration"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "APT33", "FIN6", "FIN8", "Lazarus Group", "OilRig", "Thrip", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1071.004", "mitre_attack_technique": "DNS", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Command And Control"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT18", "APT39", "APT41", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "FIN7", "Ke3chang", "OilRig", "Tropic Trooper"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1189", "mitre_attack_technique": "Drive-by Compromise", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Initial Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "APT37", "APT38", "Andariel", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Dark Caracal", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Elderwood", "Lazarus Group", "Leafminer", "Leviathan", "Machete", "PLATINUM", "PROMETHIUM", "Patchwork", "RTM", "Threat Group-3390", "Transparent Tribe", "Turla", "Windigo", "Windshift"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Command And Control", "Exfiltration", "Initial Access"], "datamodels": ["Network_Resolution"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Command & Control"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Clients Connecting to Multiple DNS Servers - Rule", "ESCU - DNS Query Requests Resolved by Unauthorized DNS Servers - Rule", "ESCU - DNS record changed - Rule", "ESCU - Detect hosts connecting to dynamic domain providers - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get DNS Server History for a host - Response Task"], "baseline_names": ["ESCU - Discover DNS records"], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Bhavin Patel"}, {"name": "sAMAccountName Spoofing and Domain Controller Impersonation", "id": "0244fdee-61be-11ec-900e-acde48001122", "version": 1, "date": "2021-12-20", "author": "Mauricio Velazco, Splunk", "description": "Monitor for activities and techniques associated with the exploitation of the sAMAccountName Spoofing (CVE-2021-42278) and Domain Controller Impersonation (CVE-2021-42287) vulnerabilities.", "narrative": "On November 9, 2021, Microsoft released patches to address two vulnerabilities that affect Windows Active Directory networks, sAMAccountName Spoofing (CVE-2021-42278) and Domain Controller Impersonation (CVE-2021-42287). On December 10, 2021, security researchers Charlie Clark and Andrew Schwartz released a blog post where they shared how to weaponise these vulnerabilities in a target network an the initial detection opportunities. When successfully exploited, CVE-2021-42278 and CVE-2021-42287 allow an adversary, who has stolen the credentials of a low priviled domain user, to obtain a Kerberos Service ticket for a Domain Controller computer account. The only requirement is to have network connectivity to a domain controller. This attack vector effectivelly allows attackers to escalate their privileges in an Active Directory from a regular domain user account and take control of a domain controller. While patches have been released to address these vulnerabilities, deploying detection controls for this attack may help help defenders identify attackers attempting exploitation.", "references": ["https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2021-42278", "https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2021-42287", "https://exploit.ph/cve-2021-42287-cve-2021-42278-weaponisation.html"], "tags": {"name": "sAMAccountName Spoofing and Domain Controller Impersonation", "analytic_story": "sAMAccountName Spoofing and Domain Controller Impersonation", "category": ["Privilege Escalation"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1078", "mitre_attack_technique": "Valid Accounts", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Initial Access", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT18", "APT28", "APT29", "APT33", "APT39", "APT41", "Carbanak", "Chimera", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN4", "FIN5", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "GALLIUM", "Leviathan", "Night Dragon", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "PittyTiger", "Sandworm Team", "Silence", "Silent Librarian", "Suckfly", "TEMP.Veles", "Threat Group-3390", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1078.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Domain Accounts", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Initial Access", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "APT3", "Chimera", "Indrik Spider", "Naikon", "Operation Wocao", "Sandworm Team", "TA505", "Threat Group-1314", "Wizard Spider"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Initial Access", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Suspicious Computer Account Name Change - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious Kerberos Service Ticket Request - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious Ticket Granting Ticket Request - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Mauricio Velazco"}, {"name": "Domain Trust Discovery", "id": "e6f30f14-8daf-11eb-a017-acde48001122", "version": 1, "date": "2021-03-25", "author": "Michael Haag, Splunk", "description": "Adversaries may attempt to gather information on domain trust relationships that may be used to identify lateral movement opportunities in Windows multi-domain/forest environments.", "narrative": "Domain trusts provide a mechanism for a domain to allow access to resources based on the authentication procedures of another domain. Domain trusts allow the users of the trusted domain to access resources in the trusting domain. The information discovered may help the adversary conduct SID-History Injection, Pass the Ticket, and Kerberoasting. Domain trusts can be enumerated using the DSEnumerateDomainTrusts() Win32 API call, .NET methods, and LDAP. The Windows utility Nltest is known to be used by adversaries to enumerate domain trusts.", "references": ["https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1482/"], "tags": {"name": "Domain Trust Discovery", "analytic_story": "Domain Trust Discovery", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1482", "mitre_attack_technique": "Domain Trust Discovery", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Discovery"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "Chimera", "FIN8"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1018", "mitre_attack_technique": "Remote System Discovery", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Discovery"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT39", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Chimera", "Deep Panda", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN5", "FIN6", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "GALLIUM", "Indrik Spider", "Ke3chang", "Leafminer", "Naikon", "Operation Wocao", "Rocke", "Sandworm Team", "Silence", "Threat Group-3390", "Turla", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Discovery"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - DSQuery Domain Discovery - Rule", "ESCU - NLTest Domain Trust Discovery - Rule", "ESCU - Windows AdFind Exe - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Michael Haag"}, {"name": "Double Zero Destructor", "id": "f56e8c00-3224-4955-9a6e-924ec7da1df7", "version": 1, "date": "2022-03-25", "author": "Teoderick Contreras, Rod Soto, Splunk", "description": "Double Zero Destructor is a destructive payload that enumerates Domain Controllers and executes killswitch if detected. Overwrites files with Zero blocks or using MS Windows API calls such as NtFileOpen, NtFSControlFile. This payload also deletes registry hives HKCU,HKLM, HKU, HKLM BCD.", "narrative": "Double zero destructor enumerates domain controllers, delete registry hives and overwrites files using zero blocks and API calls.", "references": ["https://cert.gov.ua/article/38088", "https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2022/03/threat-advisory-doublezero.html"], "tags": {"name": "Double Zero Destructor", "analytic_story": "Double Zero Destructor", "category": ["Data Destruction", "Malware", "Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1036", "mitre_attack_technique": "Masquerading", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT29", "APT32", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "PLATINUM", "TA551", "Windshift", "ZIRCONIUM", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1543", "mitre_attack_technique": "Create or Modify System Process", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1112", "mitre_attack_technique": "Modify Registry", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "APT38", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN8", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Honeybee", "Kimsuky", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Silence", "Threat Group-3390", "Turla", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1562.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Disable or Modify Tools", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "BRONZE BUTLER", "FIN6", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Indrik Spider", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "MuddyWater", "Night Dragon", "Putter Panda", "Rocke", "TeamTNT", "Turla", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1562", "mitre_attack_technique": "Impair Defenses", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Executables Or Script Creation In Suspicious Path - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious Process File Path - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Deleted Registry By A Non Critical Process File Path - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Terminating Lsass Process - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Rod Soto, Splunk", "author_name": "Teoderick Contreras"}, {"name": "Dynamic DNS", "id": "8169f17b-ef68-4b59-aae8-586907301221", "version": 2, "date": "2018-09-06", "author": "Bhavin Patel, Splunk", "description": "Detect and investigate hosts in your environment that may be communicating with dynamic domain providers. Attackers may leverage these services to help them avoid firewall blocks and deny lists.", "narrative": "Dynamic DNS services (DDNS) are legitimate low-cost or free services that allow users to rapidly update domain resolutions to IP infrastructure. While their usage can be benign, malicious actors can abuse DDNS to host harmful payloads or interactive-command-and-control infrastructure. These attackers will manually update or automate domain resolution changes by routing dynamic domains to IP addresses that circumvent firewall blocks and deny lists and frustrate a network defender's analytic and investigative processes. These searches will look for DNS queries made from within your infrastructure to suspicious dynamic domains and then investigate more deeply, when appropriate. While this list of top-level dynamic domains is not exhaustive, it can be dynamically updated as new suspicious dynamic domains are identified.", "references": ["https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2017/09/apt33-insights-into-iranian-cyber-espionage.html", "https://umbrella.cisco.com/blog/2013/04/15/on-the-trail-of-malicious-dynamic-dns-domains/", "http://www.noip.com/blog/2014/07/11/dynamic-dns-can-use-2/", "https://www.splunk.com/blog/2015/08/04/detecting-dynamic-dns-domains-in-splunk.html"], "tags": {"name": "Dynamic DNS", "analytic_story": "Dynamic DNS", "category": ["Malware"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Security Monitoring", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1071.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Web Protocols", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Command And Control"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT18", "APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "Dark Caracal", "FIN4", "FIN8", "Gamaredon Group", "HAFNIUM", "Higaisa", "Inception", "Ke3chang", "Lazarus Group", "Magic Hound", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Night Dragon", "OilRig", "Orangeworm", "Rancor", "Rocke", "Sandworm Team", "Sidewinder", "SilverTerrier", "Stealth Falcon", "TA505", "TA551", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "WIRTE", "Windshift", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1048", "mitre_attack_technique": "Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Exfiltration"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1189", "mitre_attack_technique": "Drive-by Compromise", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Initial Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "APT37", "APT38", "Andariel", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Dark Caracal", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Elderwood", "Lazarus Group", "Leafminer", "Leviathan", "Machete", "PLATINUM", "PROMETHIUM", "Patchwork", "RTM", "Threat Group-3390", "Transparent Tribe", "Turla", "Windigo", "Windshift"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Command And Control", "Exfiltration", "Initial Access"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint", "Network_Resolution", "Web"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Command & Control", "Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Detect web traffic to dynamic domain providers - Rule", "ESCU - DNS Exfiltration Using Nslookup App - Rule", "ESCU - Excessive Usage of NSLOOKUP App - Rule", "ESCU - Detect hosts connecting to dynamic domain providers - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get DNS Server History for a host - Response Task", "ESCU - Get DNS traffic ratio - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Responsible For The DNS Traffic - Response Task"], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Bhavin Patel"}, {"name": "Emotet Malware  DHS Report TA18-201A ", "id": "bb9f5ed2-916e-4364-bb6d-91c310efcf52", "version": 1, "date": "2020-01-27", "author": "Bhavin Patel, Splunk", "description": "Detect rarely used executables, specific registry paths that may confer malware survivability and persistence, instances where cmd.exe is used to launch script interpreters, and other indicators that the Emotet financial malware has compromised your environment.", "narrative": "The trojan downloader known as Emotet first surfaced in 2014, when it was discovered targeting the banking industry to steal credentials. However, according to a joint technical alert (TA) issued by three government agencies (https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA18-201A), Emotet has evolved far beyond those beginnings to become what a ThreatPost article called a threat-delivery service(see https://threatpost.com/emotet-malware-evolves-beyond-banking-to-threat-delivery-service/134342/).  For example, in early 2018, Emotet was found to be using its loader function to spread the Quakbot and Ransomware variants. \\\nAccording to the TA, the the malware continues to be among the most costly and destructive malware affecting the private and public sectors. Researchers have linked it to the threat group Mealybug, which has also been on the security communitys radar since 2014.\\\nThe searches in this Analytic Story will help you find executables that are rarely used in your environment, specific registry paths that malware often uses to ensure survivability and persistence, instances where cmd.exe is used to launch script interpreters, and other indicators that Emotet or other malware has compromised your environment. ", "references": ["https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA18-201A", "https://www.first.org/resources/papers/conf2017/Advanced-Incident-Detection-and-Threat-Hunting-using-Sysmon-and-Splunk.pdf", "https://www.vkremez.com/2017/05/emotet-banking-trojan-malware-analysis.html"], "tags": {"name": "Emotet Malware  DHS Report TA18-201A ", "analytic_story": "Emotet Malware  DHS Report TA18-201A ", "category": ["Malware"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1059", "mitre_attack_technique": "Command and Scripting Interpreter", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "APT37", "APT39", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN5", "FIN6", "FIN7", "Fox Kitten", "Ke3chang", "OilRig", "Stealth Falcon", "Whitefly", "Windigo"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1059.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Windows Command Shell", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT18", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT37", "APT38", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "Dark Caracal", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Higaisa", "Honeybee", "Indrik Spider", "Ke3chang", "Lazarus Group", "Machete", "Magic Hound", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Rancor", "Sandworm Team", "Silence", "Sowbug", "Suckfly", "TA505", "TA551", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-1314", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "Wizard Spider", "ZIRCONIUM", "admin@338", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1547.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT18", "APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Cobalt Group", "Dark Caracal", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Higaisa", "Honeybee", "Inception", "Ke3chang", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Leviathan", "Magic Hound", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Naikon", "PROMETHIUM", "Patchwork", "Putter Panda", "RTM", "Rocke", "Sharpshooter", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "Windshift", "Wizard Spider", "ZIRCONIUM"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1547", "mitre_attack_technique": "Boot or Logon Autostart Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1566.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Spearphishing Attachment", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Initial Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT-C-36", "APT1", "APT12", "APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT30", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "Ajax Security Team", "Andariel", "BRONZE BUTLER", "BlackTech", "Cobalt Group", "DarkHydrus", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Elderwood", "FIN4", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Ferocious Kitten", "Frankenstein", "Gallmaker", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Higaisa", "Inception", "IndigoZebra", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Leviathan", "Machete", "Mofang", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Naikon", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "PLATINUM", "Patchwork", "RTM", "Rancor", "Sandworm Team", "Sharpshooter", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "TA459", "TA505", "TA551", "The White Company", "Tonto Team", "Transparent Tribe", "Tropic Trooper", "Windshift", "Wizard Spider", "admin@338", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1566", "mitre_attack_technique": "Phishing", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Initial Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Dragonfly", "GOLD SOUTHFIELD"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1072", "mitre_attack_technique": "Software Deployment Tools", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution", "Lateral Movement"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "Silence", "Threat Group-1314"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1021.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "SMB/Windows Admin Shares", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Lateral Movement"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT3", "APT32", "APT39", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Deep Panda", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Ke3chang", "Lazarus Group", "Operation Wocao", "Orangeworm", "Sandworm Team", "Threat Group-1314", "Turla", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1021", "mitre_attack_technique": "Remote Services", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Lateral Movement"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution", "Initial Access", "Lateral Movement", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "datamodels": ["Email", "Endpoint", "Network_Traffic"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Command & Control", "Delivery", "Exploitation", "Installation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Prohibited Software On Endpoint - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Use of cmd exe to Launch Script Interpreters - Rule", "ESCU - Registry Keys Used For Persistence - Rule", "ESCU - Email Attachments With Lots Of Spaces - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious Email Attachment Extensions - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Rare Executables - Rule", "ESCU - Detection of tools built by NirSoft - Rule", "ESCU - SMB Traffic Spike - Rule", "ESCU - SMB Traffic Spike - MLTK - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get History Of Email Sources - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Parent Process Info - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Info - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Information For Port Activity - Response Task"], "baseline_names": ["ESCU - Baseline of SMB Traffic - MLTK", "ESCU - Add Prohibited Processes to Enterprise Security"], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Bhavin Patel"}, {"name": "F5 TMUI RCE CVE-2020-5902", "id": "7678c968-d46e-11ea-87d0-0242ac130003", "version": 1, "date": "2020-08-02", "author": "Shannon Davis, Splunk", "description": "Uncover activity consistent with CVE-2020-5902. Discovered by Positive Technologies researchers, this vulnerability affects F5 BIG-IP, BIG-IQ. and Traffix SDC devices (vulnerable versions in F5 support link below). This vulnerability allows unauthenticated users, along with authenticated users, who have access to the configuration utility to execute system commands, create/delete files, disable services, and/or execute Java code.  This vulnerability can result in full system compromise.", "narrative": "A client is able to perform a remote code execution on an exposed and vulnerable system. The detection search in this Analytic Story uses syslog to detect the malicious behavior. Syslog is going to be the best detection method, as any systems using SSL to protect their management console will make detection via wire data difficult.  The searches included used Splunk Connect For Syslog (https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/4740/), and used a custom destination port to help define the data as F5 data (covered in https://splunk-connect-for-syslog.readthedocs.io/en/master/sources/F5/)", "references": ["https://www.ptsecurity.com/ww-en/about/news/f5-fixes-critical-vulnerability-discovered-by-positive-technologies-in-big-ip-application-delivery-controller/", "https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K52145254", "https://blog.cloudflare.com/cve-2020-5902-helping-to-protect-against-the-f5-tmui-rce-vulnerability/"], "tags": {"name": "F5 TMUI RCE CVE-2020-5902", "analytic_story": "F5 TMUI RCE CVE-2020-5902", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1190", "mitre_attack_technique": "Exploit Public-Facing Application", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Initial Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT29", "APT39", "APT41", "Axiom", "BackdoorDiplomacy", "BlackTech", "Blue Mockingbird", "Fox Kitten", "GALLIUM", "GOLD SOUTHFIELD", "Night Dragon", "Operation Wocao", "Rocke", "Volatile Cedar", "menuPass"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Initial Access"], "datamodels": [], "kill_chain_phases": ["Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Detect F5 TMUI RCE CVE-2020-5902 - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task"], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Shannon Davis"}, {"name": "FIN7", "id": "df2b00d3-06ba-49f1-b253-b19cef19b569", "version": 1, "date": "2021-09-14", "author": "Teoderick Contreras, Splunk", "description": "Leverage searches that allow you to detect and investigate unusual activities that might relate to the FIN7 JS Implant and JSSLoader, including looking for Image Loading of ldap and wmi modules, associated with its payload, data collection and script execution.", "narrative": "FIN7 is a Russian criminal advanced persistent threat group that has primarily targeted the U.S. retail, restaurant, and hospitality sectors since mid-2015. A portion of FIN7 is run out of the front company Combi Security. It has been called one of the most successful criminal hacking groups in the world. this passed few day FIN7 tools and implant are seen in the wild where its code is updated. the FIN& is known to use the spear phishing attack as a entry to targetted network or host that will drop its staging payload like the JS and JSSloader. Now this artifacts and implants seen downloading other malware like cobaltstrike and event ransomware to encrypt host.", "references": ["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIN7", "https://threatpost.com/fin7-windows-11-release/169206/", "https://www.proofpoint.com/us/blog/threat-insight/jssloader-recoded-and-reloaded"], "tags": {"name": "FIN7", "analytic_story": "FIN7", "category": ["Malware"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1033", "mitre_attack_technique": "System Owner/User Discovery", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Discovery"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT3", "APT32", "APT37", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "Chimera", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "Gamaredon Group", "Lazarus Group", "Magic Hound", "MuddyWater", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Sandworm Team", "Sidewinder", "Stealth Falcon", "Tropic Trooper", "Windshift", "Wizard Spider", "ZIRCONIUM"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1059", "mitre_attack_technique": "Command and Scripting Interpreter", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "APT37", "APT39", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN5", "FIN6", "FIN7", "Fox Kitten", "Ke3chang", "OilRig", "Stealth Falcon", "Whitefly", "Windigo"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1059.007", "mitre_attack_technique": "JavaScript", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "Cobalt Group", "Evilnum", "FIN6", "FIN7", "Higaisa", "Indrik Spider", "Kimsuky", "Leafminer", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "TA505", "Turla"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1555", "mitre_attack_technique": "Credentials from Password Stores", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "APT33", "APT39", "Evilnum", "FIN6", "Leafminer", "MuddyWater", "OilRig", "Stealth Falcon"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1555.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Credentials from Web Browsers", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT3", "APT33", "APT37", "Ajax Security Team", "FIN6", "Inception", "Kimsuky", "Leafminer", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "OilRig", "Patchwork", "Sandworm Team", "Stealth Falcon", "TA505", "ZIRCONIUM"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1566", "mitre_attack_technique": "Phishing", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Initial Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Dragonfly", "GOLD SOUTHFIELD"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1566.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Spearphishing Attachment", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Initial Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT-C-36", "APT1", "APT12", "APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT30", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "Ajax Security Team", "Andariel", "BRONZE BUTLER", "BlackTech", "Cobalt Group", "DarkHydrus", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Elderwood", "FIN4", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Ferocious Kitten", "Frankenstein", "Gallmaker", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Higaisa", "Inception", "IndigoZebra", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Leviathan", "Machete", "Mofang", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Naikon", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "PLATINUM", "Patchwork", "RTM", "Rancor", "Sandworm Team", "Sharpshooter", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "TA459", "TA505", "TA551", "The White Company", "Tonto Team", "Transparent Tribe", "Tropic Trooper", "Windshift", "Wizard Spider", "admin@338", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1059.005", "mitre_attack_technique": "Visual Basic", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT-C-36", "APT29", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT38", "APT39", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Cobalt Group", "FIN4", "FIN7", "Frankenstein", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Higaisa", "Honeybee", "Inception", "Kimsuky", "Leviathan", "Machete", "Magic Hound", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Rancor", "Sandworm Team", "Sharpshooter", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "TA459", "TA505", "Transparent Tribe", "Turla", "WIRTE", "Windshift"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1055", "mitre_attack_technique": "Process Injection", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "APT37", "APT41", "Cobalt Group", "Honeybee", "Kimsuky", "Operation Wocao", "PLATINUM", "Sharpshooter", "Silence", "Turla"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1543", "mitre_attack_technique": "Create or Modify System Process", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1134.004", "mitre_attack_technique": "Parent PID Spoofing", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1134", "mitre_attack_technique": "Access Token Manipulation", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Blue Mockingbird", "FIN6"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1220", "mitre_attack_technique": "XSL Script Processing", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Cobalt Group", "Higaisa"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access", "Defense Evasion", "Discovery", "Execution", "Initial Access", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Check Elevated CMD using whoami - Rule", "ESCU - Cmdline Tool Not Executed In CMD Shell - Rule", "ESCU - Jscript Execution Using Cscript App - Rule", "ESCU - MS Scripting Process Loading Ldap Module - Rule", "ESCU - MS Scripting Process Loading WMI Module - Rule", "ESCU - Non Chrome Process Accessing Chrome Default Dir - Rule", "ESCU - Non Firefox Process Access Firefox Profile Dir - Rule", "ESCU - Office Application Drop Executable - Rule", "ESCU - Office Product Spawning Wmic - Rule", "ESCU - Vbscript Execution Using Wscript App - Rule", "ESCU - Wscript Or Cscript Suspicious Child Process - Rule", "ESCU - XSL Script Execution With WMIC - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Teoderick Contreras"}, {"name": "GCP Cross Account Activity", "id": "0432039c-ef41-4b03-b157-450c25dad1e6", "version": 1, "date": "2020-09-01", "author": "Rod Soto, Splunk", "description": "Track when a user assumes an IAM role in another GCP account to obtain cross-account access to services and resources in that account. Accessing new roles could be an indication of malicious activity.", "narrative": "Google Cloud Platform (GCP) admins manage access to GCP resources and services across the enterprise using GCP Identity and Access Management (IAM) functionality. IAM provides the ability to create and manage GCP users, groups, and roles-each with their own unique set of privileges and defined access to specific resources (such as Compute instances, the GCP Management Console, API, or the command-line interface). Unlike conventional (human) users, IAM roles are potentially assumable by anyone in the organization. They provide users with dynamically created temporary security credentials that expire within a set time period.\\\nIn between the time between when the temporary credentials are issued and when they expire is a period of opportunity, where a user could leverage the temporary credentials to wreak havoc-spin up or remove instances, create new users, elevate privileges, and other malicious activities-throughout the environment.\\\nThis Analytic Story includes searches that will help you monitor your GCP Audit logs logs for evidence of suspicious cross-account activity.  For example, while accessing multiple GCP accounts and roles may be perfectly valid behavior, it may be suspicious when an account requests privileges of an account it has not accessed in the past. After identifying suspicious activities, you can use the provided investigative searches to help you probe more deeply.", "references": ["https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/understanding-service-accounts"], "tags": {"name": "GCP Cross Account Activity", "analytic_story": "GCP Cross Account Activity", "category": ["Cloud Security"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Security Monitoring", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1078", "mitre_attack_technique": "Valid Accounts", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Initial Access", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT18", "APT28", "APT29", "APT33", "APT39", "APT41", "Carbanak", "Chimera", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN4", "FIN5", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "GALLIUM", "Leviathan", "Night Dragon", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "PittyTiger", "Sandworm Team", "Silence", "Silent Librarian", "Suckfly", "TEMP.Veles", "Threat Group-3390", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Initial Access", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "datamodels": [], "kill_chain_phases": ["Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - GCP Detect accounts with high risk roles by project - Rule", "ESCU - GCP Detect high risk permissions by resource and account - Rule", "ESCU - gcp detect oauth token abuse - Rule", "ESCU - GCP Detect gcploit framework - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task"], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Rod Soto"}, {"name": "HAFNIUM Group", "id": "beae2ab0-7c3f-11eb-8b63-acde48001122", "version": 1, "date": "2021-03-03", "author": "Michael Haag, Splunk", "description": "HAFNIUM group was identified by Microsoft as exploiting 4 Microsoft Exchange CVEs in the wild - CVE-2021-26855, CVE-2021-26857, CVE-2021-26858 and CVE-2021-27065.", "narrative": "On Tuesday, March 2, 2021, Microsoft released a set of security patches for its mail server, Microsoft Exchange. These patches respond to a group of vulnerabilities known to impact Exchange 2013, 2016, and 2019. It is important to note that an Exchange 2010 security update has also been issued, though the CVEs do not reference that version as being vulnerable.\\\nWhile the CVEs do not shed much light on the specifics of the vulnerabilities or exploits, the first vulnerability (CVE-2021-26855) has a remote network attack vector that allows the attacker, a group Microsoft named HAFNIUM, to authenticate as the Exchange server. Three additional vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-26857, CVE-2021-26858, and CVE-2021-27065) were also identified as part of this activity. When chained together along with CVE-2021-26855 for initial access, the attacker would have complete control over the Exchange server. This includes the ability to run code as SYSTEM and write to any path on the server.\\\nThe following Splunk detections assist with identifying the HAFNIUM groups tradecraft and methodology.", "references": ["https://www.splunk.com/en_us/blog/security/detecting-hafnium-exchange-server-zero-day-activity-in-splunk.html", "https://www.volexity.com/blog/2021/03/02/active-exploitation-of-microsoft-exchange-zero-day-vulnerabilities/", "https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2021/03/02/hafnium-targeting-exchange-servers/", "https://blog.rapid7.com/2021/03/03/rapid7s-insightidr-enables-detection-and-response-to-microsoft-exchange-0-day/"], "tags": {"name": "HAFNIUM Group", "analytic_story": "HAFNIUM Group", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1003.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "LSASS Memory", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT28", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Blue Mockingbird", "Cleaver", "FIN6", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "GALLIUM", "HAFNIUM", "Indrik Spider", "Ke3chang", "Kimsuky", "Leafminer", "Leviathan", "Magic Hound", "MuddyWater", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "PLATINUM", "Sandworm Team", "Silence", "TEMP.Veles", "Threat Group-3390", "Whitefly"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1059", "mitre_attack_technique": "Command and Scripting Interpreter", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "APT37", "APT39", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN5", "FIN6", "FIN7", "Fox Kitten", "Ke3chang", "OilRig", "Stealth Falcon", "Whitefly", "Windigo"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1059.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "PowerShell", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "CopyKittens", "DarkHydrus", "DarkVishnya", "Deep Panda", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "GOLD SOUTHFIELD", "Gallmaker", "Gorgon Group", "HAFNIUM", "Inception", "Indrik Spider", "Kimsuky", "Leviathan", "Magic Hound", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Poseidon Group", "Sandworm Team", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "Stealth Falcon", "TA459", "TA505", "TEMP.Veles", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Thrip", "Tonto Team", "Turla", "WIRTE", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1505", "mitre_attack_technique": "Server Software Component", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1505.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Web Shell", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT29", "APT32", "APT38", "APT39", "BackdoorDiplomacy", "Deep Panda", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Fox Kitten", "GALLIUM", "HAFNIUM", "Kimsuky", "Leviathan", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Sandworm Team", "TEMP.Veles", "Threat Group-3390", "Tonto Team", "Tropic Trooper", "Volatile Cedar"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1190", "mitre_attack_technique": "Exploit Public-Facing Application", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Initial Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT29", "APT39", "APT41", "Axiom", "BackdoorDiplomacy", "BlackTech", "Blue Mockingbird", "Fox Kitten", "GALLIUM", "GOLD SOUTHFIELD", "Night Dragon", "Operation Wocao", "Rocke", "Volatile Cedar", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1136.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Local Account", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT3", "APT39", "APT41", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Fox Kitten", "Leafminer", "TeamTNT"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1136", "mitre_attack_technique": "Create Account", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Indrik Spider", "Sandworm Team"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1021", "mitre_attack_technique": "Remote Services", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Lateral Movement"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1021.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "SMB/Windows Admin Shares", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Lateral Movement"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT3", "APT32", "APT39", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Deep Panda", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Ke3chang", "Lazarus Group", "Operation Wocao", "Orangeworm", "Sandworm Team", "Threat Group-1314", "Turla", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1569", "mitre_attack_technique": "System Services", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1569.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Service Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "FIN6", "Honeybee", "Ke3chang", "Operation Wocao", "Silence", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1003", "mitre_attack_technique": "OS Credential Dumping", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT32", "APT39", "Axiom", "Frankenstein", "Leviathan", "Poseidon Group", "Sowbug", "Suckfly", "Tonto Team"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1003.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "NTDS", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "Chimera", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN6", "Fox Kitten", "HAFNIUM", "Mustang Panda", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1114", "mitre_attack_technique": "Email Collection", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Collection"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Magic Hound", "Silent Librarian"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1114.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Remote Email Collection", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Collection"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT28", "APT29", "Chimera", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN4", "HAFNIUM", "Ke3chang", "Leafminer"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Collection", "Credential Access", "Execution", "Initial Access", "Lateral Movement", "Persistence"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint", "Network_Traffic"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Command & Control", "Exploitation", "Installation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Dump LSASS via procdump Rename - Rule", "ESCU - Any Powershell DownloadString - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Exchange Web Shell - Rule", "ESCU - Detect New Local Admin account - Rule", "ESCU - Detect PsExec With accepteula Flag - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Renamed PSExec - Rule", "ESCU - Dump LSASS via comsvcs DLL - Rule", "ESCU - Dump LSASS via procdump - Rule", "ESCU - Malicious PowerShell Process - Execution Policy Bypass - Rule", "ESCU - Nishang PowershellTCPOneLine - Rule", "ESCU - Ntdsutil Export NTDS - Rule", "ESCU - PowerShell - Connect To Internet With Hidden Window - Rule", "ESCU - Set Default PowerShell Execution Policy To Unrestricted or Bypass - Rule", "ESCU - Unified Messaging Service Spawning a Process - Rule", "ESCU - W3WP Spawning Shell - Rule", "ESCU - Email servers sending high volume traffic to hosts - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Michael Haag"}, {"name": "Hermetic Wiper", "id": "b7511c2e-9a10-11ec-99e3-acde48001122", "version": 1, "date": "2022-03-02", "author": "Teoderick Contreras, Rod Soto, Michael Haag, Splunk", "description": "This analytic story contains detections that allow security analysts to detect and investigate unusual activities that might relate to the destructive malware targeting Ukrainian organizations also known as \"Hermetic Wiper\". This analytic story looks for abuse of Regsvr32, executables written in administrative SMB Share, suspicious processes, disabling of memory crash dump and more.", "narrative": "Hermetic Wiper is destructive malware operation found by Sentinel One targeting multiple organizations in Ukraine. This malicious payload corrupts Master Boot Records, uses signed drivers and manipulates NTFS attributes for file destruction.", "references": ["https://www.sentinelone.com/labs/hermetic-wiper-ukraine-under-attack/", "https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ncas/alerts/aa22-057a"], "tags": {"name": "Hermetic Wiper", "analytic_story": "Hermetic Wiper", "category": ["Data Destruction", "Malware", "Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1059.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Windows Command Shell", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT18", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT37", "APT38", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "Dark Caracal", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Higaisa", "Honeybee", "Indrik Spider", "Ke3chang", "Lazarus Group", "Machete", "Magic Hound", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Rancor", "Sandworm Team", "Silence", "Sowbug", "Suckfly", "TA505", "TA551", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-1314", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "Wizard Spider", "ZIRCONIUM", "admin@338", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1059", "mitre_attack_technique": "Command and Scripting Interpreter", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "APT37", "APT39", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN5", "FIN6", "FIN7", "Fox Kitten", "Ke3chang", "OilRig", "Stealth Falcon", "Whitefly", "Windigo"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1021", "mitre_attack_technique": "Remote Services", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Lateral Movement"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1021.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "SMB/Windows Admin Shares", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Lateral Movement"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT3", "APT32", "APT39", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Deep Panda", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Ke3chang", "Lazarus Group", "Operation Wocao", "Orangeworm", "Sandworm Team", "Threat Group-1314", "Turla", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1036", "mitre_attack_technique": "Masquerading", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT29", "APT32", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "PLATINUM", "TA551", "Windshift", "ZIRCONIUM", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1218", "mitre_attack_technique": "Signed Binary Proxy Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1218.010", "mitre_attack_technique": "Regsvr32", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "Blue Mockingbird", "Cobalt Group", "Deep Panda", "Inception", "Leviathan", "TA551", "WIRTE"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1543", "mitre_attack_technique": "Create or Modify System Process", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1485", "mitre_attack_technique": "Data Destruction", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Impact"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT38", "Lazarus Group", "Sandworm Team"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1112", "mitre_attack_technique": "Modify Registry", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "APT38", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN8", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Honeybee", "Kimsuky", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Silence", "Threat Group-3390", "Turla", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1561.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Disk Structure Wipe", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Impact"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT37", "APT38", "Lazarus Group", "Sandworm Team"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1561", "mitre_attack_technique": "Disk Wipe", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Impact"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Execution", "Impact", "Lateral Movement", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - CMD Carry Out String Command Parameter - Rule", "ESCU - Executable File Written in Administrative SMB Share - Rule", "ESCU - Executables Or Script Creation In Suspicious Path - Rule", "ESCU - Regsvr32 Silent and Install Param Dll Loading - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious Process File Path - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Disable Memory Crash Dump - Rule", "ESCU - Windows File Without Extension In Critical Folder - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Modify Show Compress Color And Info Tip Registry - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Raw Access To Disk Volume Partition - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Raw Access To Master Boot Record Drive - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Rod Soto, Michael Haag, Splunk", "author_name": "Teoderick Contreras"}, {"name": "Hidden Cobra Malware", "id": "baf7580b-d4b4-4774-8173-7d198e9da335", "version": 2, "date": "2020-01-22", "author": "Rico Valdez, Splunk", "description": "Monitor for and investigate activities, including the creation or deletion of hidden shares and file writes, that may be evidence of infiltration by North Korean government-sponsored cybercriminals. Details of this activity were reported in DHS Report TA-18-149A.", "narrative": "North Korea's government-sponsored \"cyber army\" has been slowly building momentum and gaining sophistication over the last 15 years or so. As a result, the group's activity, which the US government refers to as \"Hidden Cobra,\" has surreptitiously crept onto the collective radar as a preeminent global threat.\\\nThese state-sponsored actors are thought to be responsible for everything from a hack on a South Korean nuclear plant to an attack on Sony in anticipation of its release of the movie \"The Interview\" at the end of 2014. They're also notorious for cyberespionage. In recent years, the group seems to be focused on financial crimes, such as cryptojacking.\\\nIn June of 2018, The Department of Homeland Security, together with the FBI and other U.S. government partners, issued Technical Alert (TA-18-149A) to advise the public about two variants of North Korean malware. One variant, dubbed \"Joanap,\" is a multi-stage peer-to-peer botnet that allows North Korean state actors to exfiltrate data, download and execute secondary payloads, and initialize proxy communications. The other variant, \"Brambul,\" is a Windows32 SMB worm that is dropped into a victim network. When executed, the malware attempts to spread laterally within a victim's local subnet, connecting via the SMB protocol and initiating brute-force password attacks. It reports details to the Hidden Cobra actors via email, so they can use the information for secondary remote operations.\\\nAmong other searches in this Analytic Story is a detection search that looks for the creation or deletion of hidden shares, such as, \"adnim$,\" which the Hidden Cobra malware creates on the target system. Another looks for the creation of three malicious files associated with the malware. You can also use a search in this story to investigate activity that indicates that malware is sending email back to the attackers.", "references": ["https://www.us-cert.gov/HIDDEN-COBRA-North-Korean-Malicious-Cyber-Activity", "https://www.operationblockbuster.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Operation-Blockbuster-Destructive-Malware-Report.pdf"], "tags": {"name": "Hidden Cobra Malware", "analytic_story": "Hidden Cobra Malware", "category": ["Malware"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1059.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "PowerShell", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "CopyKittens", "DarkHydrus", "DarkVishnya", "Deep Panda", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "GOLD SOUTHFIELD", "Gallmaker", "Gorgon Group", "HAFNIUM", "Inception", "Indrik Spider", "Kimsuky", "Leviathan", "Magic Hound", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Poseidon Group", "Sandworm Team", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "Stealth Falcon", "TA459", "TA505", "TEMP.Veles", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Thrip", "Tonto Team", "Turla", "WIRTE", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1059.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Windows Command Shell", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT18", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT37", "APT38", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "Dark Caracal", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Higaisa", "Honeybee", "Indrik Spider", "Ke3chang", "Lazarus Group", "Machete", "Magic Hound", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Rancor", "Sandworm Team", "Silence", "Sowbug", "Suckfly", "TA505", "TA551", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-1314", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "Wizard Spider", "ZIRCONIUM", "admin@338", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1070", "mitre_attack_technique": "Indicator Removal on Host", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1070.005", "mitre_attack_technique": "Network Share Connection Removal", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Threat Group-3390"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1021.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Remote Desktop Protocol", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Lateral Movement"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT3", "APT39", "APT41", "Axiom", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Leviathan", "OilRig", "Patchwork", "Silence", "TEMP.Veles", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1021", "mitre_attack_technique": "Remote Services", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Lateral Movement"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1071.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "File Transfer Protocols", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Command And Control"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT41", "Honeybee", "Kimsuky", "SilverTerrier"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1071", "mitre_attack_technique": "Application Layer Protocol", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Command And Control"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Dragonfly 2.0", "Magic Hound", "Rocke", "TeamTNT"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1071.004", "mitre_attack_technique": "DNS", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Command And Control"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT18", "APT39", "APT41", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "FIN7", "Ke3chang", "OilRig", "Tropic Trooper"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1021.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "SMB/Windows Admin Shares", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Lateral Movement"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT3", "APT32", "APT39", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Deep Panda", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Ke3chang", "Lazarus Group", "Operation Wocao", "Orangeworm", "Sandworm Team", "Threat Group-1314", "Turla", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1048.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Exfiltration Over Unencrypted/Obfuscated Non-C2 Protocol", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Exfiltration"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "APT33", "FIN6", "FIN8", "Lazarus Group", "OilRig", "Thrip", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1048", "mitre_attack_technique": "Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Exfiltration"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Command And Control", "Defense Evasion", "Execution", "Exfiltration", "Lateral Movement"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint", "Network_Resolution", "Network_Traffic"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Command & Control"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - First time seen command line argument - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious File Write - Rule", "ESCU - Create or delete windows shares using net exe - Rule", "ESCU - Remote Desktop Process Running On System - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Outbound SMB Traffic - Rule", "ESCU - DNS Query Length Outliers - MLTK - Rule", "ESCU - Remote Desktop Network Traffic - Rule", "ESCU - SMB Traffic Spike - Rule", "ESCU - SMB Traffic Spike - MLTK - Rule", "ESCU - DNS Query Length With High Standard Deviation - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get DNS Server History for a host - Response Task", "ESCU - Get DNS traffic ratio - Response Task", "ESCU - Get History Of Email Sources - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Outbound Emails to Hidden Cobra Threat Actors - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Parent Process Info - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Info - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Information For Port Activity - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Responsible For The DNS Traffic - Response Task", "ESCU - Investigate Successful Remote Desktop Authentications - Response Task"], "baseline_names": ["ESCU - Baseline of DNS Query Length - MLTK", "ESCU - Baseline of SMB Traffic - MLTK", "ESCU - Identify Systems Creating Remote Desktop Traffic", "ESCU - Identify Systems Receiving Remote Desktop Traffic", "ESCU - Identify Systems Using Remote Desktop", "ESCU - Previously seen command line arguments"], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Rico Valdez"}, {"name": "Information Sabotage", "id": "b71ba595-ef80-4e39-8b66-887578a7a71b", "version": 1, "date": "2021-11-17", "author": "Teoderick Contreras, Splunk", "description": "Leverage searches that allow you to detect and investigate unusual activities that might correlate to insider threat specially in terms of information sabotage.", "narrative": "Information sabotage is the type of crime many people associate with insider threat. Where the current or former employees, contractors, or business partners intentionally exceeded or misused an authorized level of access to networks, systems, or data with the intention of harming a specific individual, the organization, or the organization's data, systems, and/or daily business operations.", "references": ["https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/blog/insider-threat-deep-dive-it-sabotage/"], "tags": {"name": "Information Sabotage", "analytic_story": "Information Sabotage", "category": ["Abuse"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud", "Splunk Behavioral Analytics"], "usecase": "Security Monitoring", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1537", "mitre_attack_technique": "Transfer Data to Cloud Account", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Exfiltration"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Exfiltration"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - High Frequency Copy Of Files In Network Share - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Teoderick Contreras"}, {"name": "Ingress Tool Transfer", "id": "b3782036-8cbd-11eb-9d8e-acde48001122", "version": 1, "date": "2021-03-24", "author": "Michael Haag, Splunk", "description": "Adversaries may transfer tools or other files from an external system into a compromised environment. Files may be copied from an external adversary controlled system through the command and control channel to bring tools into the victim network or through alternate protocols with another tool such as FTP.", "narrative": "Ingress tool transfer is a Technique under tactic Command and Control. Behaviors will include the use of living off the land binaries to download implants or binaries over alternate communication ports. It is imperative to baseline applications on endpoints to understand what generates network activity, to where, and what is its native behavior. These utilities, when abused, will write files to disk in world writeable paths.\\ During triage, review the reputation of the remote public destination IP or domain. Capture any files written to disk and perform analysis. Review other parrallel processes for additional behaviors.", "references": ["https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1105/"], "tags": {"name": "Ingress Tool Transfer", "analytic_story": "Ingress Tool Transfer", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1059", "mitre_attack_technique": "Command and Scripting Interpreter", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "APT37", "APT39", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN5", "FIN6", "FIN7", "Fox Kitten", "Ke3chang", "OilRig", "Stealth Falcon", "Whitefly", "Windigo"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1059.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "PowerShell", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "CopyKittens", "DarkHydrus", "DarkVishnya", "Deep Panda", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "GOLD SOUTHFIELD", "Gallmaker", "Gorgon Group", "HAFNIUM", "Inception", "Indrik Spider", "Kimsuky", "Leviathan", "Magic Hound", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Poseidon Group", "Sandworm Team", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "Stealth Falcon", "TA459", "TA505", "TEMP.Veles", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Thrip", "Tonto Team", "Turla", "WIRTE", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1197", "mitre_attack_technique": "BITS Jobs", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Persistence"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT39", "APT41", "Leviathan", "Patchwork"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1105", "mitre_attack_technique": "Ingress Tool Transfer", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Command And Control"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT-C-36", "APT18", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "Ajax Security Team", "Andariel", "BRONZE BUTLER", "BackdoorDiplomacy", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Elderwood", "Evilnum", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "HAFNIUM", "IndigoZebra", "Indrik Spider", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Leviathan", "Magic Hound", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "PLATINUM", "Patchwork", "Rancor", "Rocke", "Sandworm Team", "Sharpshooter", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "TA505", "TA551", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Tonto Team", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "Volatile Cedar", "WIRTE", "Whitefly", "Windshift", "ZIRCONIUM", "menuPass"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Command And Control", "Defense Evasion", "Execution", "Persistence"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Any Powershell DownloadFile - Rule", "ESCU - Any Powershell DownloadString - Rule", "ESCU - BITSAdmin Download File - Rule", "ESCU - CertUtil Download With URLCache and Split Arguments - Rule", "ESCU - CertUtil Download With VerifyCtl and Split Arguments - Rule", "ESCU - Curl Download and Bash Execution - Rule", "ESCU - Wget Download and Bash Execution - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Curl Download to Suspicious Path - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Curl Upload to Remote Destination - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious Curl Network Connection - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Michael Haag"}, {"name": "JBoss Vulnerability", "id": "1f5294cb-b85f-4c2d-9c58-ffcf248f52bd", "version": 1, "date": "2017-09-14", "author": "Bhavin Patel, Splunk", "description": "In March of 2016, adversaries were seen using JexBoss--an open-source utility used for testing and exploiting JBoss application servers. These searches help detect evidence of these attacks, such as network connections to external resources or web services spawning atypical child processes, among others.", "narrative": "This Analytic Story looks for probing and exploitation attempts targeting JBoss application servers. While the vulnerabilities associated with this story are rather dated, they were leveraged in a spring 2016 campaign in connection with the Samsam ransomware variant. Incidents involving this ransomware are unique, in that they begin with attacks against vulnerable services, rather than the phishing or drive-by attacks more common with ransomware. In this case, vulnerable JBoss applications appear to be the target of choice.\\\nIt is helpful to understand how often a notable event generated by this story occurs, as well as the commonalities between some of these events, both of which may provide clues about whether this is a common occurrence of minimal concern or a rare event that may require more extensive investigation. It may also help to understand whether the issue is restricted to a single user/system or whether it is broader in scope.\\\nWhen looking at the target of the behavior uncovered by the event, you should note the sensitivity of the user and or/system to help determine the potential impact. It is also helpful to identify other recent events involving the target. This can help tie different events together and give further situational awareness regarding the target host.\\\nVarious types of information for external systems should be reviewed and, potentially, collected if the incident is, indeed, judged to be malicious. This data may be useful for generating your own threat intelligence, so you can create future alerts.\\\nThe following factors may assist you in determining whether the event is malicious: \\\n1. Country of origin\\\n1. Responsible party\\\n1. Fully qualified domain names associated with the external IP address\\\n1. Registration of fully qualified domain names associated with external IP address Determining whether it is a dynamic domain frequently visited by others and/or how third parties categorize it can also help you qualify and understand the event and possible motivation for the attack. In addition, there are various sources that may provide reputation information on the IP address or domain name, which can assist you in determining whether the event is malicious in nature. Finally, determining whether there are other events associated with the IP address may help connect data points or expose other historic events that might be brought back into scope.\\\nGathering various data on the system of interest can sometimes help quickly determine whether something suspicious is happening. Some of these items include determining who else may have logged into the system recently, whether any unusual scheduled tasks exist, whether the system is communicating on suspicious ports, whether there are modifications to sensitive registry keys, and/or whether there are any known vulnerabilities on the system. This information can often highlight other activity commonly seen in attack scenarios or give more information about how the system may have been targeted.\\\nhen a specific service or application is targeted, it is often helpful to know the associated version, to help determine whether it is vulnerable to a specific exploit.\\\nIf you suspect an attack targeting a web server, it is helpful to look at some of the behavior of the web service to see if there is evidence that the service has been compromised. Some indications of this might be network connections to external resources, the web service spawning child processes that are not associated with typical behavior, and whether the service wrote any files that might be malicious in nature.\\\nIf a suspicious file is found, we can review more information about it to help determine if it is, in fact, malicious. Identifying the file type, any processes that opened the file, the processes that may have created and/or modified the file, and how many other systems potentially have this file can you determine whether the file is malicious. Also, determining the file hash and checking it against reputation sources, such as VirusTotal, can sometimes help you quickly determine if it is malicious in nature.\\\nOften, a simple inspection of a suspect process name and path can tell you if the system has been compromised. For example, if svchost.exe is found running from a location other than `C:\\Windows\\System32`, it is likely something malicious designed to hide in plain sight when simply reviewing process names. \\\nIt can also be helpful to examine various behaviors of and the parent of the process of interest. For example, if it turns out the process of interest is malicious, it would be good to see whether the parent process spawned other processes that might also warrant further scrutiny. If a process is suspect, a review of the network connections made around the time of the event and noting whether the process has spawned any child processes could be helpful in determining whether it is malicious or executing a malicious script.", "references": ["http://www.deependresearch.org/2016/04/jboss-exploits-view-from-victim.html"], "tags": {"name": "JBoss Vulnerability", "analytic_story": "JBoss Vulnerability", "category": ["Vulnerability"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1082", "mitre_attack_technique": "System Information Discovery", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Discovery"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT18", "APT19", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT37", "APT38", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Darkhotel", "Frankenstein", "Gamaredon Group", "Higaisa", "Honeybee", "Inception", "Ke3chang", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Magic Hound", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Rocke", "Sandworm Team", "Sidewinder", "Sowbug", "Stealth Falcon", "TeamTNT", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "Windigo", "Windshift", "Wizard Spider", "ZIRCONIUM", "admin@338"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Discovery"], "datamodels": ["Web"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Delivery", "Reconnaissance"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Detect attackers scanning for vulnerable JBoss servers - Rule", "ESCU - Detect malicious requests to exploit JBoss servers - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task"], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Bhavin Patel"}, {"name": "Kubernetes Scanning Activity", "id": "a9ef59cf-e981-4e66-9eef-bb049f695c09", "version": 1, "date": "2020-04-15", "author": "Rod Soto, Splunk", "description": "This story addresses detection against Kubernetes cluster fingerprint scan and attack by providing information on items such as source ip, user agent, cluster names.", "narrative": "Kubernetes is the most used container orchestration platform, this orchestration platform contains sensitve information and management priviledges of production workloads, microservices and applications. These searches allow operator to detect suspicious unauthenticated requests from the internet to kubernetes cluster.", "references": ["https://github.com/splunk/cloud-datamodel-security-research"], "tags": {"name": "Kubernetes Scanning Activity", "analytic_story": "Kubernetes Scanning Activity", "category": ["Cloud Security"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Security Monitoring", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1526", "mitre_attack_technique": "Cloud Service Discovery", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Discovery"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Discovery"], "datamodels": [], "kill_chain_phases": ["Reconnaissance"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - GCP Kubernetes cluster scan detection - Rule", "ESCU - Kubernetes Azure pod scan fingerprint - Rule", "ESCU - Kubernetes Azure scan fingerprint - Rule", "ESCU - Amazon EKS Kubernetes cluster scan detection - Rule", "ESCU - Amazon EKS Kubernetes Pod scan detection - Rule", "ESCU - GCP Kubernetes cluster pod scan detection - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Amazon EKS Kubernetes activity by src ip - Response Task", "ESCU - GCP Kubernetes activity by src ip - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task"], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Rod Soto"}, {"name": "Kubernetes Sensitive Object Access Activity", "id": "c7d4dbf0-a171-4eaf-8444-4f40392e4f92", "version": 1, "date": "2020-05-20", "author": "Rod Soto, Splunk", "description": "This story addresses detection and response of accounts acccesing Kubernetes cluster sensitive objects such as configmaps or secrets providing information on items such as user user, group. object, namespace and authorization reason.", "narrative": "Kubernetes is the most used container orchestration platform, this orchestration platform contains sensitive objects within its architecture, specifically configmaps and secrets, if accessed by an attacker can lead to further compromise. These searches allow operator to detect suspicious requests against Kubernetes sensitive objects.", "references": ["https://www.splunk.com/en_us/blog/security/approaching-kubernetes-security-detecting-kubernetes-scan-with-splunk.html"], "tags": {"name": "Kubernetes Sensitive Object Access Activity", "analytic_story": "Kubernetes Sensitive Object Access Activity", "category": ["Cloud Security"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Security Monitoring", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [], "mitre_attack_tactics": [], "datamodels": [], "kill_chain_phases": ["Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - AWS EKS Kubernetes cluster sensitive object access - Rule", "ESCU - Kubernetes AWS detect service accounts forbidden failure access - Rule", "ESCU - Kubernetes Azure detect sensitive object access - Rule", "ESCU - Kubernetes Azure detect service accounts forbidden failure access - Rule", "ESCU - Kubernetes Azure detect suspicious kubectl calls - Rule", "ESCU - Kubernetes GCP detect sensitive object access - Rule", "ESCU - Kubernetes GCP detect service accounts forbidden failure access - Rule", "ESCU - Kubernetes GCP detect suspicious kubectl calls - Rule", "ESCU - Kubernetes AWS detect suspicious kubectl calls - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task"], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Rod Soto"}, {"name": "Linux Persistence Techniques", "id": "e40d13e5-d38b-457e-af2a-e8e6a2f2b516", "version": 1, "date": "2021-12-17", "author": "Teoderick Contreras, Splunk", "description": "Monitor for activities and techniques associated with maintaining persistence on a Linux system--a sign that an adversary may have compromised your environment.", "narrative": "Maintaining persistence is one of the first steps taken by attackers after the initial compromise. Attackers leverage various custom and built-in tools to ensure survivability and persistent access within a compromised enterprise. This Analytic Story provides searches to help you identify various behaviors used by attackers to maintain persistent access to a Linux environment.", "references": ["https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1053/", "https://kifarunix.com/scheduling-tasks-using-at-command-in-linux/", "https://gtfobins.github.io/gtfobins/at/", "https://www.cert.ssi.gouv.fr/uploads/CERTFR-2021-CTI-005.pdf"], "tags": {"name": "Linux Persistence Techniques", "analytic_story": "Linux Persistence Techniques", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1053.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Cron", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT38", "Rocke"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1053", "mitre_attack_technique": "Scheduled Task/Job", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1136.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Local Account", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT3", "APT39", "APT41", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Fox Kitten", "Leafminer", "TeamTNT"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1136", "mitre_attack_technique": "Create Account", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Indrik Spider", "Sandworm Team"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1053.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "At (Linux)", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1222.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Linux and Mac File and Directory Permissions Modification", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "Rocke", "TeamTNT"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1222", "mitre_attack_technique": "File and Directory Permissions Modification", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1548.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Setuid and Setgid", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1548", "mitre_attack_technique": "Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1548.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Sudo and Sudo Caching", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1547.006", "mitre_attack_technique": "Kernel Modules and Extensions", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1547", "mitre_attack_technique": "Boot or Logon Autostart Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1037.004", 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["APT3", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Lazarus Group", "Sandworm Team"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1003.008", "mitre_attack_technique": "/etc/passwd and /etc/shadow", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1003", "mitre_attack_technique": "OS Credential Dumping", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT32", "APT39", "Axiom", "Frankenstein", "Leviathan", "Poseidon Group", "Sowbug", "Suckfly", "Tonto Team"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1574.006", "mitre_attack_technique": "Dynamic Linker Hijacking", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT41", "Rocke"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1574", "mitre_attack_technique": "Hijack Execution Flow", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1053.006", "mitre_attack_technique": "Systemd Timers", 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- Rule", "ESCU - Linux Install Kernel Module Using Modprobe Utility - Rule", "ESCU - Linux NOPASSWD Entry In Sudoers File - Rule", "ESCU - Linux Possible Access Or Modification Of sshd Config File - Rule", "ESCU - Linux Possible Access To Credential Files - Rule", "ESCU - Linux Possible Access To Sudoers File - Rule", "ESCU - Linux Possible Append Command To At Allow Config File - Rule", "ESCU - Linux Possible Append Command To Profile Config File - Rule", "ESCU - Linux Possible Append Cronjob Entry on Existing Cronjob File - Rule", "ESCU - Linux Possible Cronjob Modification With Editor - Rule", "ESCU - Linux Possible Ssh Key File Creation - Rule", "ESCU - Linux Preload Hijack Library Calls - Rule", "ESCU - Linux Service File Created In Systemd Directory - Rule", "ESCU - Linux Service Restarted - Rule", "ESCU - Linux Service Started Or Enabled - Rule", "ESCU - Linux Setuid Using Chmod Utility - Rule", "ESCU - Linux Setuid Using Setcap Utility - Rule", "ESCU - Linux Sudo OR Su 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"Security Monitoring", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1059.004", "mitre_attack_technique": "Unix Shell", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT41", "Rocke", "TeamTNT"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Suspicious Linux Discovery Commands - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "no", "author_name": "Rod Soto"}, {"name": "Linux Privilege Escalation", "id": "b9879c24-670a-44c0-895e-98cdb7d0e848", "version": 1, "date": "2021-12-17", "author": "Teoderick Contreras, Splunk", "description": "Monitor for and investigate activities that may be associated with a Linux privilege-escalation attack, including unusual processes running on endpoints, schedule task, services, setuid, root execution and more.", "narrative": "Privilege escalation is a \"land-and-expand\" technique, wherein an adversary gains an initial foothold on a host and then exploits its weaknesses to increase his privileges. The motivation is simple: certain actions on a Linux machine--such as installing software--may require higher-level privileges than those the attacker initially acquired. By increasing his privilege level, the attacker can gain the control required to carry out his malicious ends. This Analytic Story provides searches to detect and investigate behaviors that attackers may use to elevate their privileges in your environment.", "references": ["https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0004/"], "tags": {"name": "Linux Privilege Escalation", "analytic_story": "Linux Privilege Escalation", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1053.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Cron", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT38", "Rocke"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1053", "mitre_attack_technique": "Scheduled Task/Job", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1136.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Local Account", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT3", "APT39", "APT41", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Fox Kitten", "Leafminer", "TeamTNT"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1136", "mitre_attack_technique": "Create Account", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Indrik Spider", "Sandworm Team"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1053.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "At (Linux)", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1222.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Linux and Mac File and Directory Permissions Modification", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "Rocke", "TeamTNT"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1222", "mitre_attack_technique": "File and Directory Permissions Modification", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1548.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Setuid and Setgid", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1548", "mitre_attack_technique": "Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1548.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Sudo and Sudo Caching", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1547.006", "mitre_attack_technique": "Kernel Modules and Extensions", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1547", "mitre_attack_technique": "Boot or Logon Autostart Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1037.004", "mitre_attack_technique": "RC Scripts", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1037", "mitre_attack_technique": "Boot or 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Native utilities provide the adversary with reduced chances of detection by antivirus software or EDR tools. 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The vulnerability allows an attacker who can control log messages to execute arbitrary code loaded from attacker-controlled servers and we anticipate that most apps using the Log4j library will meet this condition.", "narrative": "In late November 2021, Chen Zhaojun of Alibaba identified a remote code execution vulnerability. Previous work was seen in a 2016 Blackhat talk by Alvaro Munoz and Oleksandr Mirosh called [\"A Journey from JNDI/LDAP Manipulation to Remote Code Execution Dream Land\"](https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-16/materials/us-16-Munoz-A-Journey-From-JNDI-LDAP-Manipulation-To-RCE.pdf). Reported under the CVE ID : CVE-2021-44228, released to the public on December 10, 2021. The vulnerability is exploited through improper deserialization of user input passed into the framework. It permits remote code execution and it can allow an attacker to leak sensitive data, such as environment variables, or execute malicious software on the target system.", "references": ["https://mbechler.github.io/2021/12/10/PSA_Log4Shell_JNDI_Injection/", "https://www.fastly.com/blog/digging-deeper-into-log4shell-0day-rce-exploit-found-in-log4j", "https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/log4j2-vulnerability-analysis-and-mitigation-recommendations/", "https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/log4j-zero-day/", "https://www.splunk.com/en_us/blog/security/log-jammin-log4j-2-rce.html"], "tags": {"name": "Log4Shell CVE-2021-44228", "analytic_story": "Log4Shell CVE-2021-44228", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Application Security", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1059", "mitre_attack_technique": "Command and Scripting Interpreter", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "APT37", "APT39", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN5", "FIN6", "FIN7", "Fox Kitten", "Ke3chang", "OilRig", "Stealth Falcon", "Whitefly", "Windigo"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1059.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "PowerShell", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "CopyKittens", "DarkHydrus", "DarkVishnya", "Deep Panda", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "GOLD SOUTHFIELD", "Gallmaker", "Gorgon Group", "HAFNIUM", "Inception", "Indrik Spider", "Kimsuky", "Leviathan", "Magic Hound", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Poseidon Group", "Sandworm Team", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "Stealth Falcon", "TA459", "TA505", "TEMP.Veles", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Thrip", "Tonto Team", "Turla", "WIRTE", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1059.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Windows Command Shell", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT18", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT37", "APT38", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "Dark Caracal", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Higaisa", "Honeybee", "Indrik Spider", "Ke3chang", "Lazarus Group", "Machete", "Magic Hound", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Rancor", "Sandworm Team", "Silence", "Sowbug", "Suckfly", "TA505", "TA551", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-1314", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "Wizard Spider", "ZIRCONIUM", "admin@338", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1105", "mitre_attack_technique": "Ingress Tool Transfer", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Command And Control"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT-C-36", "APT18", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "Ajax Security Team", "Andariel", "BRONZE BUTLER", "BackdoorDiplomacy", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Elderwood", "Evilnum", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "HAFNIUM", "IndigoZebra", "Indrik Spider", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Leviathan", "Magic Hound", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "PLATINUM", "Patchwork", "Rancor", "Rocke", "Sandworm Team", "Sharpshooter", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "TA505", "TA551", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Tonto Team", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "Volatile Cedar", "WIRTE", "Whitefly", "Windshift", "ZIRCONIUM", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1190", "mitre_attack_technique": "Exploit Public-Facing Application", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Initial Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT29", "APT39", "APT41", "Axiom", "BackdoorDiplomacy", "BlackTech", "Blue Mockingbird", "Fox Kitten", "GALLIUM", "GOLD SOUTHFIELD", "Night Dragon", "Operation Wocao", "Rocke", "Volatile Cedar", "menuPass"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Command And Control", "Execution", "Initial Access"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint", "Network_Traffic", "Risk", "Web"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Command & Control", "Exploitation", "Reconnaissance"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Any Powershell DownloadFile - Rule", "ESCU - CMD Carry Out String Command Parameter - Rule", "ESCU - Curl Download and Bash Execution - Rule", "ESCU - Hunting for Log4Shell - Rule", "ESCU - Java Class File download by Java User Agent - Rule", "ESCU - Linux Java Spawning Shell - Rule", "ESCU - Log4Shell CVE-2021-44228 Exploitation - Rule", "ESCU - Outbound Network Connection from Java Using Default Ports - Rule", "ESCU - PowerShell - Connect To Internet With Hidden Window - Rule", "ESCU - Wget Download and Bash Execution - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Java Spawning Shells - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Outbound LDAP Traffic - Rule", "ESCU - Log4Shell JNDI Payload Injection Attempt - Rule", "ESCU - Log4Shell JNDI Payload Injection with Outbound Connection - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "no", "author_name": "Jose Hernandez"}, {"name": "Malicious PowerShell", "id": "2c8ff66e-0b57-42af-8ad7-912438a403fc", "version": 5, "date": "2017-08-23", "author": "David Dorsey, Splunk", "description": "Attackers are finding stealthy ways \"live off the land,\" leveraging utilities and tools that come standard on the endpoint--such as PowerShell--to achieve their goals without downloading binary files. These searches can help you detect and investigate PowerShell command-line options that may be indicative of malicious intent.", "narrative": "The searches in this Analytic Story monitor for parameters often used for malicious purposes. It is helpful to understand how often the notable events generated by this story occur, as well as the commonalities between some of these events. These factors may provide clues about whether this is a common occurrence of minimal concern or a rare event that may require more extensive investigation. Likewise, it is important to determine whether the issue is restricted to a single user/system or is broader in scope. \\\nThe following factors may assist you in determining whether the event is malicious: \\\n1. Country of origin \\\n1. Responsible party \\\n1. Fully qualified domain names associated with the external IP address \\\n1. Registration of fully qualified domain names associated with external IP address \\\nDetermining whether it is a dynamic domain frequently visited by others and/or how third parties categorize it can also help you answer some questions surrounding the attacker and details related to the external system. In addition, there are various sources--such as VirusTotal&#151; that can provide some reputation information on the IP address or domain name, which can assist in determining whether the event is malicious. Finally, determining whether there are other events associated with the IP address may help connect data points or show other events that should be brought into scope. \\\nGathering data on the system of interest can sometimes help you quickly determine whether something suspicious is happening. Some of these items include finding out who else may have recently logged into the system, whether any unusual scheduled tasks exist, whether the system is communicating on suspicious ports, whether there are modifications to sensitive registry keys, and whether there are any known vulnerabilities on the system. This information can often highlight other activity commonly seen in attack scenarios or give more information about how the system may have been targeted. \\\nOften, a simple inspection of the process name and path can tell you if the system has been compromised. For example, if `svchost.exe` is found running from a location other than `C:\\Windows\\System32`, it is likely something malicious designed to hide in plain sight when cursorily reviewing process names. Similarly, if the process itself seems legitimate, but the parent process is running from the temporary browser cache, that could be indicative of activity initiated via a compromised website a user visited. \\\nIt can also be very helpful to examine various behaviors of the process of interest or the parent of the process of interest. For example, if it turns out the process of interest is malicious, it would be good to see if the parent to that process spawned other processes that might be worth further scrutiny. If a process is suspect, a review of the network connections made in and around the time of the event and/or whether the process spawned any child processes could be helpful, as well. \\\nIn the event a system is suspected of having been compromised via a malicious website, we suggest reviewing the browsing activity from that system around the time of the event. If categories are given for the URLs visited, that can help you zero in on possible malicious sites. \\\nMost recently we have added new content related to PowerShell Script Block logging, Windows EventCode 4104. Script block logging presents the deobfuscated and raw script executed on an endpoint. The analytics produced were tested against commonly used attack frameworks - PowerShell-Empire, Cobalt Strike and Covenant. In addition, we sampled publicly available samples that utilize PowerShell and validated coverage. The analytics are here to identify suspicious usage, cmdlets, or script values. 4104 events are enabled via the Windows registry and may generate a large volume of data if enabled globally. Enabling on critical systems or a limited set may be best. During triage of 4104 events, review parallel processes for other processes and command executed. Identify any file modifications and network communication and review accordingly. Fortunately, we get the full script to determine the level of threat identified.", "references": ["https://blogs.mcafee.com/mcafee-labs/malware-employs-powershell-to-infect-systems/", "https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democratic-national-committee/"], "tags": {"name": "Malicious PowerShell", "analytic_story": "Malicious PowerShell", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1059.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "PowerShell", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "CopyKittens", "DarkHydrus", "DarkVishnya", "Deep Panda", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "GOLD SOUTHFIELD", "Gallmaker", "Gorgon Group", "HAFNIUM", "Inception", "Indrik Spider", "Kimsuky", "Leviathan", "Magic Hound", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Poseidon Group", "Sandworm Team", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "Stealth Falcon", "TA459", "TA505", "TEMP.Veles", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Thrip", "Tonto Team", "Turla", "WIRTE", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1059", "mitre_attack_technique": "Command and Scripting Interpreter", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "APT37", "APT39", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN5", "FIN6", "FIN7", "Fox Kitten", "Ke3chang", "OilRig", "Stealth Falcon", "Whitefly", "Windigo"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1003", "mitre_attack_technique": "OS Credential Dumping", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT32", "APT39", "Axiom", "Frankenstein", "Leviathan", "Poseidon Group", "Sowbug", "Suckfly", "Tonto Team"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1027", "mitre_attack_technique": "Obfuscated Files or Information", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT-C-36", "APT18", "APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT39", "APT41", "BackdoorDiplomacy", "BlackOasis", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "Dark Caracal", "Darkhotel", "Dust Storm", "Elderwood", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "GOLD SOUTHFIELD", "Gallmaker", "Gamaredon Group", "Group5", "Higaisa", "Honeybee", "Inception", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Leafminer", "Leviathan", "Magic Hound", "Mofang", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Night Dragon", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Putter Panda", "Rocke", "Sandworm Team", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "TA505", "TA551", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Transparent Tribe", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "Whitefly", "Windshift", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1021", "mitre_attack_technique": "Remote Services", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Lateral Movement"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1021.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Distributed Component Object Model", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Lateral Movement"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1021.006", "mitre_attack_technique": "Windows Remote Management", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Lateral Movement"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "Chimera", "Threat Group-3390", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1047", "mitre_attack_technique": "Windows Management Instrumentation", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "APT32", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Deep Panda", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "Indrik Spider", "Lazarus Group", "Leviathan", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Naikon", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Sandworm Team", "Stealth Falcon", "Threat Group-3390", "Windshift", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1053.005", "mitre_attack_technique": "Scheduled Task", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT-C-36", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "CostaRicto", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "Gamaredon Group", "Higaisa", "Machete", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Naikon", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Rancor", "Silence", "Stealth Falcon", "TEMP.Veles", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1543.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Windows Service", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT3", "APT32", "APT38", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Carbanak", "Cobalt Group", "DarkVishnya", "FIN7", "Honeybee", "Ke3chang", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "PROMETHIUM", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1027.005", "mitre_attack_technique": "Indicator Removal from Tools", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT3", "Deep Panda", "GALLIUM", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "TEMP.Veles", "Turla"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1546.015", "mitre_attack_technique": "Component Object Model Hijacking", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1546", "mitre_attack_technique": "Event Triggered Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1055", "mitre_attack_technique": "Process Injection", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "APT37", "APT41", "Cobalt Group", "Honeybee", "Kimsuky", "Operation Wocao", "PLATINUM", "Sharpshooter", "Silence", "Turla"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1140", "mitre_attack_technique": "Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT39", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Darkhotel", "Frankenstein", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Higaisa", "Honeybee", "Leviathan", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "OilRig", "Rocke", "Sandworm Team", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "WIRTE", "ZIRCONIUM", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1592", "mitre_attack_technique": "Gather Victim Host Information", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Reconnaissance"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1562", "mitre_attack_technique": "Impair Defenses", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access", "Defense Evasion", "Execution", "Lateral Movement", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation", "Reconnaissance"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Command & Control", "Exploitation", "Installation", "Reconnaissance"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Suspicious Powershell Command-Line Arguments - Rule", "ESCU - Any Powershell DownloadFile - Rule", "ESCU - Any Powershell DownloadString - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Empire with PowerShell Script Block Logging - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Mimikatz With PowerShell Script Block Logging - Rule", "ESCU - Malicious PowerShell Process - Encoded Command - Rule", "ESCU - Malicious PowerShell Process With Obfuscation Techniques - Rule", "ESCU - Possible Lateral Movement PowerShell Spawn - Rule", "ESCU - PowerShell 4104 Hunting - Rule", "ESCU - PowerShell - Connect To Internet With Hidden Window - Rule", "ESCU - Powershell Creating Thread Mutex - Rule", "ESCU - PowerShell Domain Enumeration - Rule", "ESCU - Powershell Enable SMB1Protocol Feature - Rule", "ESCU - Powershell Execute COM Object - Rule", "ESCU - Powershell Fileless Process Injection via GetProcAddress - Rule", "ESCU - Powershell Fileless Script Contains Base64 Encoded Content - Rule", "ESCU - PowerShell Loading DotNET into Memory via Reflection - Rule", "ESCU - Powershell Processing Stream Of Data - Rule", "ESCU - Powershell Using memory As Backing Store - Rule", "ESCU - Recon AVProduct Through Pwh or WMI - Rule", "ESCU - Recon Using WMI Class - Rule", "ESCU - Set Default PowerShell Execution Policy To Unrestricted or Bypass - Rule", "ESCU - Unloading AMSI via Reflection - Rule", "ESCU - WMI Recon Running Process Or Services - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get History Of Email Sources - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Parent Process Info - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Info - Response Task"], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "David Dorsey"}, {"name": "Masquerading - Rename System Utilities", "id": "f0258af4-a6ae-11eb-b3c2-acde48001122", "version": 1, "date": "2021-04-26", "author": "Michael Haag, Splunk", "description": "Adversaries may rename legitimate system utilities to try to evade security mechanisms concerning the usage of those utilities.", "narrative": "Security monitoring and control mechanisms may be in place for system utilities adversaries are capable of abusing. It may be possible to bypass those security mechanisms by renaming the utility prior to utilization (ex: rename rundll32.exe). An alternative case occurs when a legitimate utility is copied or moved to a different directory and renamed to avoid detections based on system utilities executing from non-standard paths.\\\nThe following content is here to assist with binaries within `system32` or `syswow64` being moved to a new location or an adversary bringing a the binary in to execute.\\\nThere will be false positives as some native Windows processes are moved or ran by third party applications from different paths. If file names are mismatched between the file name on disk and that of the binarys PE metadata, this is a likely indicator that a binary was renamed after it was compiled. Collecting and comparing disk and resource filenames for binaries by looking to see if the InternalName, OriginalFilename, and or ProductName match what is expected could provide useful leads, but may not always be indicative of malicious activity. Do not focus on the possible names a file could have, but instead on the command-line arguments that are known to be used and are distinct because it will have a better rate of detection.", "references": ["https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1036/003/"], "tags": {"name": "Masquerading - Rename System Utilities", "analytic_story": "Masquerading - Rename System Utilities", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1036.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Rename System Utilities", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "GALLIUM", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1218", "mitre_attack_technique": "Signed Binary Proxy Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1036", "mitre_attack_technique": "Masquerading", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT29", "APT32", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "PLATINUM", "TA551", "Windshift", "ZIRCONIUM", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1218.011", "mitre_attack_technique": "Rundll32", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT38", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Carbanak", "CopyKittens", "Gamaredon Group", "HAFNIUM", "MuddyWater", "Sandworm Team", "TA505", "TA551"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1485", "mitre_attack_technique": "Data Destruction", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Impact"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT38", "Lazarus Group", "Sandworm Team"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1070.004", "mitre_attack_technique": "File Deletion", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT18", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Evilnum", "FIN10", "FIN5", "FIN6", "FIN8", "Gamaredon Group", "Group5", "Honeybee", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Magic Hound", "Mustang Panda", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Rocke", "Sandworm Team", "Silence", "TEMP.Veles", "TeamTNT", "The White Company", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1070", "mitre_attack_technique": "Indicator Removal on Host", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1127", "mitre_attack_technique": "Trusted Developer Utilities Proxy Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1127.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "MSBuild", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Frankenstein"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1218.004", "mitre_attack_technique": "InstallUtil", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Mustang Panda", "menuPass"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Impact"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Execution of File With Spaces Before Extension - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious Rundll32 Rename - Rule", "ESCU - Execution of File with Multiple Extensions - Rule", "ESCU - Sdelete Application Execution - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious microsoft workflow compiler rename - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious msbuild path - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious MSBuild Rename - Rule", "ESCU - System Processes Run From Unexpected Locations - Rule", "ESCU - Windows DotNet Binary in Non Standard Path - Rule", "ESCU - Windows InstallUtil in Non Standard Path - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Michael Haag"}, {"name": "Meterpreter", "id": "d5f8e298-c85a-11eb-9fea-acde48001122", "version": 1, "date": "2021-06-08", "author": "Michael Hart", "description": "Meterpreter provides red teams, pen testers and threat actors interactive access to a compromised host to run commands, upload payloads, download files, and other actions.", "narrative": "This Analytic Story supports you to detect Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs) from Meterpreter. Meterpreter is a Metasploit payload for remote execution that leverages DLL injection to make it extremely difficult to detect.  Since the software runs in memory, no new processes are created upon injection.  It also leverages encrypted communication channels.\\\nMeterpreter enables the operator to remotely run commands on the target machine, upload payloads, download files, dump password hashes, and much more.  It is difficult to determine from the forensic evidence what actions the operator performed.  Splunk Research, however, has observed anomalous behaviors on the compromised hosts that seem to only appear when Meterpreter is executing various commands.  With that, we have written new detections targeted to these detections.\\\nWhile investigating a detection related to this analytic story, please bear in mind that the detections look for anomalies in system behavior.  It will be imperative to look for other signs in the endpoint and network logs for lateral movement, discovery and other actions to confirm that the host was compromised and a remote actor used it to progress on their objectives.", "references": ["https://www.offensive-security.com/metasploit-unleashed/about-meterpreter/", "https://doubleoctopus.com/security-wiki/threats-and-tools/meterpreter/", "https://www.rapid7.com/products/metasploit/"], "tags": {"name": "Meterpreter", "analytic_story": "Meterpreter", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1059", "mitre_attack_technique": "Command and Scripting Interpreter", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "APT37", "APT39", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN5", "FIN6", "FIN7", "Fox Kitten", "Ke3chang", "OilRig", "Stealth Falcon", "Whitefly", "Windigo"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1033", "mitre_attack_technique": "System Owner/User Discovery", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Discovery"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT3", "APT32", "APT37", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "Chimera", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "Gamaredon Group", "Lazarus Group", "Magic Hound", "MuddyWater", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Sandworm Team", "Sidewinder", "Stealth Falcon", "Tropic Trooper", "Windshift", "Wizard Spider", "ZIRCONIUM"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Discovery", "Execution"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Excessive distinct processes from Windows Temp - Rule", "ESCU - Excessive number of taskhost processes - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "no", "author_name": "Michael Hart"}, {"name": "Microsoft MSHTML Remote Code Execution CVE-2021-40444", "id": "4ad4253e-10ca-11ec-8235-acde48001122", "version": 1, "date": "2021-09-08", "author": "Michael Haag, Splunk", "description": "CVE-2021-40444 is a remote code execution vulnerability in MSHTML, recently used to delivery targeted spearphishing documents.", "narrative": "Microsoft is aware of targeted attacks that attempt to exploit this vulnerability, CVE-2021-40444 by using specially-crafted Microsoft Office documents. MSHTML is a software component used to render web pages on Windows. Although it is 2019s most commonly associated with Internet Explorer, it is also used in other software.  CVE-2021-40444 received a CVSS score of 8.8 out of 10. MSHTML is the beating heart of Internet Explorer, the vulnerability also exists in that browser. Although given its limited use, there is little risk of infection by that vector. Microsoft Office applications use the MSHTML component to display web content in Office documents. The attack depends on MSHTML loading a specially crafted ActiveX control when the target opens a malicious Office document. The loaded ActiveX control can then run arbitrary code to infect the system with more malware. At the moment all supported Windows versions are vulnerable. Since there is no patch available yet, Microsoft proposes a few methods to block these attacks. \\\n1. Disable the installation of all ActiveX controls in Internet Explorer via the registry. Previously-installed ActiveX controls will still run, but no new ones will be added, including malicious ones. Open documents from the Internet in Protected View or Application Guard for Office, both of which prevent the current attack. This is a default setting but it may have been changed.", "references": ["https://blog.malwarebytes.com/exploits-and-vulnerabilities/2021/09/windows-mshtml-zero-day-actively-exploited-mitigations-required/", "https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2021-40444", "https://www.echotrail.io/insights/search/control.exe"], "tags": {"name": "Microsoft MSHTML Remote Code Execution CVE-2021-40444", "analytic_story": "Microsoft MSHTML Remote Code Execution CVE-2021-40444", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1218", "mitre_attack_technique": "Signed Binary Proxy Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1218.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Control Panel", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1566", "mitre_attack_technique": "Phishing", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Initial Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Dragonfly", "GOLD SOUTHFIELD"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1566.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Spearphishing Attachment", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Initial Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT-C-36", "APT1", "APT12", "APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT30", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "Ajax Security Team", "Andariel", "BRONZE BUTLER", "BlackTech", "Cobalt Group", "DarkHydrus", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Elderwood", "FIN4", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Ferocious Kitten", "Frankenstein", "Gallmaker", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Higaisa", "Inception", "IndigoZebra", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Leviathan", "Machete", "Mofang", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Naikon", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "PLATINUM", "Patchwork", "RTM", "Rancor", "Sandworm Team", "Sharpshooter", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "TA459", "TA505", "TA551", "The White Company", "Tonto Team", "Transparent Tribe", "Tropic Trooper", "Windshift", "Wizard Spider", "admin@338", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1218.011", "mitre_attack_technique": "Rundll32", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT38", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Carbanak", "CopyKittens", "Gamaredon Group", "HAFNIUM", "MuddyWater", "Sandworm Team", "TA505", "TA551"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Initial Access"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Control Loading from World Writable Directory - Rule", "ESCU - MSHTML Module Load in Office Product - Rule", "ESCU - Office Product Writing cab or inf - Rule", "ESCU - Office Spawning Control - Rule", "ESCU - Rundll32 Control RunDLL Hunt - Rule", "ESCU - Rundll32 Control RunDLL World Writable Directory - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Michael Haag"}, {"name": "Monitor for Updates", "id": "9ef8d677-7b52-4213-a038-99cfc7acc2d8", "version": 1, "date": "2017-09-15", "author": "Rico Valdez, Splunk", "description": "Monitor your enterprise to ensure that your endpoints are being patched and updated. Adversaries notoriously exploit known vulnerabilities that could be mitigated by applying routine security patches.", "narrative": "It is a common best practice to ensure that endpoints are being patched and updated in a timely manner, in order to reduce the risk of compromise via a publicly disclosed vulnerability. Timely application of updates/patches is important to eliminate known vulnerabilities that may be exploited by various threat actors.\\\nSearches in this analytic story are designed to help analysts monitor endpoints for system patches and/or updates. This helps analysts identify any systems that are not successfully updated in a timely matter.\\\nMicrosoft releases updates for Windows systems on a monthly cadence. They should be installed as soon as possible after following internal testing and validation procedures. Patches and updates for other systems or applications are typically released as needed.", "references": ["https://learn.cisecurity.org/20-controls-download"], "tags": {"name": "Monitor for Updates", "analytic_story": "Monitor for Updates", "category": ["Best Practices"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Compliance", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [], "mitre_attack_tactics": [], "datamodels": ["Updates"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - No Windows Updates in a time frame - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task"], "baseline_names": ["ESCU - Windows Updates Install Failures", "ESCU - Windows Updates Install Successes"], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Rico Valdez"}, {"name": "Netsh Abuse", "id": "2b1800dd-92f9-47ec-a981-fdf1351e5f65", "version": 1, "date": "2017-01-05", "author": "Bhavin Patel, Splunk", "description": "Detect activities and various techniques associated with the abuse of `netsh.exe`, which can disable local firewall settings or set up a remote connection to a host from an infected system.", "narrative": "It is a common practice for attackers of all types to leverage native Windows tools and functionality to execute commands for malicious reasons. One such tool on Windows OS is `netsh.exe`,a command-line scripting utility that allows you to--either locally or remotely--display or modify the network configuration of a computer that is currently running. `Netsh.exe` can be used to discover and disable local firewall settings. It can also be used to set up a remote connection to a host from an infected system.\\\nTo get started, run the detection search to identify parent processes of `netsh.exe`.", "references": ["https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/tn-archive/bb490939(v=technet.10)", "https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/MatthewDemaske/blogbackup/blob/master/netshell.html", "http://blog.jpcert.or.jp/2016/01/windows-commands-abused-by-attackers.html"], "tags": {"name": "Netsh Abuse", "analytic_story": "Netsh Abuse", "category": ["Abuse"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1562.004", "mitre_attack_technique": "Disable or Modify System Firewall", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "APT38", "Carbanak", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Operation Wocao", "Rocke", "TeamTNT"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1562", "mitre_attack_technique": "Impair Defenses", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Processes created by netsh - Rule", "ESCU - Processes launching netsh - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Parent Process Info - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Info - Response Task"], "baseline_names": ["ESCU - Baseline of SMB Traffic - MLTK", "ESCU - Previously seen command line arguments"], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Bhavin Patel"}, {"name": "Network Discovery", "id": "af228995-f182-49d7-90b3-2a732944f00f", "version": 1, "date": "2022-02-14", "author": "Teoderick Contreras, Splunk", "description": "Leverage searches that allow you to detect and investigate unusual activities that might relate to the network discovery, including looking for network configuration, settings such as IP, MAC address, firewall settings and many more.", "narrative": "Adversaries may use the information from System Network Configuration Discovery during automated discovery to shape follow-on behaviors, including determining certain access within the target network and what actions to do next.", "references": ["https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1016/", "https://www.welivesecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/ESET_Kobalos.pdf", "https://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2018/09/unit42-xbash-combines-botnet-ransomware-coinmining-worm-targets-linux-windows/"], "tags": {"name": "Network Discovery", "analytic_story": "Network Discovery", "category": ["Malware"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1016", "mitre_attack_technique": "System Network Configuration Discovery", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Discovery"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT19", "APT3", "APT32", "APT41", "Chimera", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "Higaisa", "Ke3chang", "Lazarus Group", "Magic Hound", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Naikon", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Sandworm Team", "Sidewinder", "Stealth Falcon", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "Wizard Spider", "ZIRCONIUM", "admin@338", "menuPass"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Discovery"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Reconnaissance"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Linux System Network Discovery - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Teoderick Contreras"}, {"name": "NOBELIUM Group", "id": "758196b5-2e21-424f-a50c-6e421ce926c2", "version": 2, "date": "2020-12-14", "author": "Patrick Bareiss, Michael Haag, Splunk", "description": "Sunburst is a trojanized updates to SolarWinds Orion IT monitoring and management software. It was discovered by FireEye in December 2020. The actors behind this campaign gained access to numerous public and private organizations around the world.", "narrative": "This Analytic Story supports you to detect Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs) of the NOBELIUM Group. The threat actor behind sunburst compromised the SolarWinds.Orion.Core.BusinessLayer.dll, is a SolarWinds digitally-signed component of the Orion software framework that contains a backdoor that communicates via HTTP to third party servers. The detections in this Analytic Story are focusing on the dll loading events, file create events and network events to detect This malware.", "references": ["https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2021/03/04/goldmax-goldfinder-sibot-analyzing-nobelium-malware/", "https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2020/12/evasive-attacker-leverages-solarwinds-supply-chain-compromises-with-sunburst-backdoor.html", "https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2020/12/13/customer-guidance-on-recent-nation-state-cyber-attacks/"], "tags": {"name": "NOBELIUM Group", "analytic_story": "NOBELIUM Group", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1560.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Archive via Utility", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Collection"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT33", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Chimera", "CopyKittens", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "GALLIUM", "Gallmaker", "HAFNIUM", "Ke3chang", "Magic Hound", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Operation Wocao", "Sowbug", "Turla", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1560", "mitre_attack_technique": "Archive Collected Data", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Collection"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT32", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN6", "Honeybee", "Ke3chang", "Lazarus Group", "Leviathan", "Patchwork", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1059", "mitre_attack_technique": "Command and Scripting Interpreter", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "APT37", "APT39", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN5", "FIN6", "FIN7", "Fox Kitten", "Ke3chang", "OilRig", "Stealth Falcon", "Whitefly", "Windigo"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1059.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Windows Command Shell", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT18", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT37", "APT38", "APT41", 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"Sidewinder", "TA551"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1027", "mitre_attack_technique": "Obfuscated Files or Information", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT-C-36", "APT18", "APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT39", "APT41", "BackdoorDiplomacy", "BlackOasis", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "Dark Caracal", "Darkhotel", "Dust Storm", "Elderwood", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "GOLD SOUTHFIELD", "Gallmaker", "Gamaredon Group", "Group5", "Higaisa", "Honeybee", "Inception", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Leafminer", "Leviathan", "Magic Hound", "Mofang", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Night Dragon", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Putter Panda", "Rocke", "Sandworm Team", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "TA505", "TA551", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Transparent Tribe", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "Whitefly", "Windshift", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, 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Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "Gamaredon Group", "Higaisa", "Machete", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Naikon", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Rancor", "Silence", "Stealth Falcon", "TEMP.Veles", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1053", "mitre_attack_technique": "Scheduled Task/Job", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1018", "mitre_attack_technique": "Remote System Discovery", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Discovery"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT39", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Chimera", "Deep Panda", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN5", "FIN6", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "GALLIUM", "Indrik Spider", "Ke3chang", "Leafminer", "Naikon", "Operation Wocao", "Rocke", "Sandworm Team", "Silence", "Threat Group-3390", "Turla", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1569", "mitre_attack_technique": "System Services", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1569.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Service Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "FIN6", "Honeybee", "Ke3chang", "Operation Wocao", "Silence", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1203", "mitre_attack_technique": "Exploitation for Client Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT12", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT41", "Andariel", "BRONZE BUTLER", "BlackTech", "Cobalt Group", "Darkhotel", "Elderwood", "Frankenstein", "HAFNIUM", "Higaisa", "Inception", "Lazarus Group", "Leviathan", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Patchwork", "Sandworm Team", "Sidewinder", "TA459", "The White Company", "Threat Group-3390", "Tonto Team", "Transparent Tribe", "Tropic Trooper", "admin@338"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1071.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "File Transfer Protocols", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Command And Control"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT41", "Honeybee", "Kimsuky", "SilverTerrier"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1071", "mitre_attack_technique": "Application Layer Protocol", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Command And Control"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Dragonfly 2.0", "Magic Hound", "Rocke", "TeamTNT"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1071.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Web Protocols", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Command And Control"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT18", "APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "Dark Caracal", "FIN4", "FIN8", "Gamaredon Group", "HAFNIUM", "Higaisa", "Inception", "Ke3chang", "Lazarus Group", "Magic Hound", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Night Dragon", "OilRig", "Orangeworm", "Rancor", "Rocke", "Sandworm Team", "Sidewinder", "SilverTerrier", "Stealth Falcon", "TA505", "TA551", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "WIRTE", "Windshift", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1505.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Web Shell", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT29", "APT32", "APT38", "APT39", "BackdoorDiplomacy", "Deep Panda", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Fox Kitten", "GALLIUM", "HAFNIUM", "Kimsuky", "Leviathan", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Sandworm Team", "TEMP.Veles", "Threat Group-3390", "Tonto Team", "Tropic Trooper", "Volatile Cedar"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Collection", "Command And Control", "Defense Evasion", "Discovery", "Execution", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint", "Network_Traffic", "Web"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Command & Control", "Exploitation", "Installation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Anomalous usage of 7zip - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Prohibited Applications Spawning cmd exe - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Rundll32 Inline HTA Execution - Rule", "ESCU - Malicious PowerShell Process - Encoded Command - Rule", "ESCU - Sc exe Manipulating Windows Services - Rule", "ESCU - Scheduled Task Deleted Or Created via CMD - Rule", "ESCU - Schtasks scheduling job on remote system - Rule", "ESCU - Windows AdFind Exe - Rule", "ESCU - First Time Seen Running Windows Service - Rule", "ESCU - Sunburst Correlation DLL and Network Event - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Outbound SMB Traffic - Rule", "ESCU - TOR Traffic - Rule", "ESCU - Supernova Webshell - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": ["ESCU - Previously Seen Running Windows Services - Initial", "ESCU - Previously Seen Running Windows Services - Update"], "author_company": "Michael Haag, Splunk", "author_name": "Patrick Bareiss"}, {"name": "Office 365 Detections", "id": "1a51dd71-effc-48b2-abc4-3e9cdb61e5b9", "version": 1, "date": "2020-12-16", "author": "Patrick Bareiss, Splunk", "description": "This story is focused around detecting Office 365 Attacks.", "narrative": "More and more companies are using Microsofts Office 365 cloud offering. Therefore, we see more and more attacks against Office 365. This story provides various detections for Office 365 attacks.", "references": ["https://i.blackhat.com/USA-20/Thursday/us-20-Bienstock-My-Cloud-Is-APTs-Cloud-Investigating-And-Defending-Office-365.pdf"], "tags": {"name": "Office 365 Detections", "analytic_story": "Office 365 Detections", "category": ["Cloud Security"], "product": ["Splunk Security Analytics for AWS", "Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Security Monitoring", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1136.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Cloud Account", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1136", "mitre_attack_technique": "Create Account", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Indrik Spider", "Sandworm Team"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1562.007", "mitre_attack_technique": "Disable or Modify Cloud Firewall", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1562", "mitre_attack_technique": "Impair Defenses", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1556", "mitre_attack_technique": "Modify Authentication Process", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access", "Defense Evasion", "Persistence"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1110", "mitre_attack_technique": "Brute Force", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT38", "APT39", "DarkVishnya", "FIN5", "Fox Kitten", "OilRig", "Turla"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1114", "mitre_attack_technique": "Email Collection", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Collection"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Magic Hound", "Silent Librarian"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1114.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Email Forwarding Rule", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Collection"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Kimsuky", "Silent Librarian"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1114.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Remote Email Collection", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Collection"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT28", "APT29", "Chimera", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN4", "HAFNIUM", "Ke3chang", "Leafminer"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1110.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Password Guessing", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Collection", "Credential Access", "Defense Evasion", "Persistence"], "datamodels": [], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - O365 Add App Role Assignment Grant User - Rule", "ESCU - O365 Added Service Principal - Rule", "ESCU - O365 Bypass MFA via Trusted IP - Rule", "ESCU - O365 Disable MFA - Rule", "ESCU - O365 Excessive Authentication Failures Alert - Rule", "ESCU - O365 Excessive SSO logon errors - Rule", "ESCU - O365 New Federated Domain Added - Rule", "ESCU - O365 PST export alert - Rule", "ESCU - O365 Suspicious Admin Email Forwarding - Rule", "ESCU - O365 Suspicious Rights Delegation - Rule", "ESCU - O365 Suspicious User Email Forwarding - Rule", "ESCU - High Number of Login Failures from a single source - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Patrick Bareiss"}, {"name": "Orangeworm Attack Group", "id": "bb9f5ed2-916e-4364-bb6d-97c370efcf52", "version": 2, "date": "2020-01-22", "author": "David Dorsey, Splunk", "description": "Detect activities and various techniques associated with the Orangeworm Attack Group, a group that frequently targets the healthcare industry.", "narrative": "In May of 2018, the attack group Orangeworm was implicated for installing a custom backdoor called Trojan.Kwampirs within large international healthcare corporations in the United States, Europe, and Asia. This malware provides the attackers with remote access to the target system, decrypting and extracting a copy of its main DLL payload from its resource section. Before writing the payload to disk, it inserts a randomly generated string into the middle of the decrypted payload in an attempt to evade hash-based detections.\\\nAwareness of the Orangeworm group first surfaced in January, 2015. It has conducted targeted attacks against related industries, as well, such as pharmaceuticals and healthcare IT solution providers.\\\nHealthcare may be a promising target, because it is notoriously behind in technology, often using older operating systems and neglecting to patch computers. Even so, the group was able to evade detection for a full three years. Sources say that the malware spread quickly within the target networks, infecting computers used to control medical devices, such as MRI and X-ray machines.\\\nThis Analytic Story is designed to help you detect and investigate suspicious activities that may be indicative of an Orangeworm attack. One detection search looks for command-line arguments. Another monitors for uses of sc.exe, a non-essential Windows file that can manipulate Windows services. One of the investigative searches helps you get more information on web hosts that you suspect have been compromised.", "references": ["https://www.symantec.com/blogs/threat-intelligence/orangeworm-targets-healthcare-us-europe-asia", "https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/healthcare-targeted-by-hacker/"], "tags": {"name": "Orangeworm Attack Group", "analytic_story": "Orangeworm Attack Group", "category": ["Malware"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1059.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "PowerShell", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "CopyKittens", "DarkHydrus", "DarkVishnya", "Deep Panda", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "GOLD SOUTHFIELD", "Gallmaker", "Gorgon Group", "HAFNIUM", "Inception", "Indrik Spider", "Kimsuky", "Leviathan", "Magic Hound", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Poseidon Group", "Sandworm Team", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "Stealth Falcon", "TA459", "TA505", "TEMP.Veles", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Thrip", "Tonto Team", "Turla", "WIRTE", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1059.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Windows Command Shell", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT18", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT37", "APT38", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "Dark Caracal", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Higaisa", "Honeybee", "Indrik Spider", "Ke3chang", "Lazarus Group", "Machete", "Magic Hound", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Rancor", "Sandworm Team", "Silence", "Sowbug", "Suckfly", "TA505", "TA551", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-1314", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "Wizard Spider", "ZIRCONIUM", "admin@338", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1543.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Windows Service", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT3", "APT32", "APT38", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Carbanak", "Cobalt Group", "DarkVishnya", "FIN7", "Honeybee", "Ke3chang", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "PROMETHIUM", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1543", "mitre_attack_technique": "Create or Modify System Process", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1569", "mitre_attack_technique": "System Services", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1569.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Service Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "FIN6", "Honeybee", "Ke3chang", "Operation Wocao", "Silence", "Wizard Spider"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Command & Control", "Installation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - First time seen command line argument - Rule", "ESCU - Sc exe Manipulating Windows Services - Rule", "ESCU - First Time Seen Running Windows Service - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get History Of Email Sources - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Parent Process Info - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Info - Response Task"], "baseline_names": ["ESCU - Previously seen command line arguments", "ESCU - Previously Seen Running Windows Services - Initial", "ESCU - Previously Seen Running Windows Services - Update"], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "David Dorsey"}, {"name": "PetitPotam NTLM Relay on Active Directory Certificate Services", "id": "97aecafc-0a68-11ec-962f-acde48001122", "version": 1, "date": "2021-08-31", "author": "Michael Haag, Mauricio Velazco, Splunk", "description": "PetitPotam (CVE-2021-36942,) is a vulnerablity identified in Microsofts EFSRPC Protocol that can allow an unauthenticated account to escalate privileges to domain administrator given the right circumstances.", "narrative": "In June 2021, security researchers at SpecterOps released a blog post and white paper detailing several potential attack vectors against Active Directory Certificated Services (ADCS). ADCS is a Microsoft product that implements Public Key Infrastrucutre (PKI) functionality and can be used by organizations to provide and manage digital certiticates within Active Directory.\\ In July 2021, a security researcher released PetitPotam, a tool that allows attackers to coerce Windows systems into authenticating to arbitrary endpoints.\\ Combining PetitPotam with the identified ADCS attack vectors allows attackers to escalate privileges from an unauthenticated anonymous user to full domain admin privileges.", "references": ["https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/current-activity/2021/07/27/microsoft-releases-guidance-mitigating-petitpotam-ntlm-relay", "https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/kb5005413-mitigating-ntlm-relay-attacks-on-active-directory-certificate-services-ad-cs-3612b773-4043-4aa9-b23d-b87910cd3429", "https://www.specterops.io/assets/resources/Certified_Pre-Owned.pdf", "https://github.com/topotam/PetitPotam/", "https://github.com/gentilkiwi/mimikatz/releases/tag/2.2.0-20210723", "https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2021-36942", "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1187/"], "tags": {"name": "PetitPotam NTLM Relay on Active Directory Certificate Services", "analytic_story": "PetitPotam NTLM Relay on Active Directory Certificate Services", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1187", "mitre_attack_technique": "Forced Authentication", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["DarkHydrus", "Dragonfly 2.0"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1003", "mitre_attack_technique": "OS Credential Dumping", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT32", "APT39", "Axiom", "Frankenstein", "Leviathan", "Poseidon Group", "Sowbug", "Suckfly", "Tonto Team"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "datamodels": [], "kill_chain_phases": ["Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - PetitPotam Network Share Access Request - Rule", "ESCU - PetitPotam Suspicious Kerberos TGT Request - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Mauricio Velazco, Splunk", "author_name": "Michael Haag"}, {"name": "Possible Backdoor Activity Associated With MUDCARP Espionage Campaigns", "id": "988C59C5-0A1C-45B6-A555-0C62276E327E", "version": 1, "date": "2020-01-22", "author": "iDefense Cyber Espionage Team, iDefense", "description": "Monitor your environment for suspicious behaviors that resemble the techniques employed by the MUDCARP threat group.", "narrative": "This story was created as a joint effort between iDefense and Splunk.\\\niDefense analysts have recently discovered a Windows executable file that, upon execution, spoofs a decryption tool and then drops a file that appears to be the custom-built javascript backdoor, \"Orz,\" which is associated with the threat actors known as MUDCARP (as well as \"temp.Periscope\" and \"Leviathan\"). The file is executed using Wscript.\\\nThe MUDCARP techniques include the use of the compressed-folders module from Microsoft, zipfldr.dll, with RouteTheCall export to run the malicious process or command. After a successful reboot, the malware is made persistent by a manipulating `[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Run]'help'='c:\\\\windows\\\\system32\\\\rundll32.exe c:\\\\windows\\\\system32\\\\zipfldr.dll,RouteTheCall c:\\\\programdata\\\\winapp.exe'`. Though this technique is not exclusive to MUDCARP, it has been spotted in the group's arsenal of advanced techniques seen in the wild.\\\nThis Analytic Story searches for evidence of tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) that allow for the use of a endpoint detection-and-response (EDR) bypass technique to mask the true parent of a malicious process. It can also be set as a registry key for further sandbox evasion and to allow the malware to launch only after reboot.\\\nIf behavioral searches included in this story yield positive hits, iDefense recommends conducting IOC searches for the following:\\\n\\\n1. www.chemscalere[.]com\\\n1. chemscalere[.]com\\\n1. about.chemscalere[.]com\\\n1. autoconfig.chemscalere[.]com\\\n1. autodiscover.chemscalere[.]com\\\n1. catalog.chemscalere[.]com\\\n1. cpanel.chemscalere[.]com\\\n1. db.chemscalere[.]com\\\n1. ftp.chemscalere[.]com\\\n1. mail.chemscalere[.]com\\\n1. news.chemscalere[.]com\\\n1. update.chemscalere[.]com\\\n1. webmail.chemscalere[.]com\\\n1. www.candlelightparty[.]org\\\n1. candlelightparty[.]org\\\n1. newapp.freshasianews[.]comIn addition, iDefense also recommends that organizations review their environments for activity related to the following hashes:\\\n\\\n1. cd195ee448a3657b5c2c2d13e9c7a2e2\\\n1. b43ad826fe6928245d3c02b648296b43\\\n1. 889a9b52566448231f112a5ce9b5dfaf\\\n1. b8ec65dab97cdef3cd256cc4753f0c54\\\n1. 04d83cd3813698de28cfbba326d7647c", "references": ["https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/scope-of-mudcarp-attacks-highlight-1/", "http://blog.amossys.fr/badflick-is-not-so-bad.html"], "tags": {"name": "Possible Backdoor Activity Associated With MUDCARP Espionage Campaigns", "analytic_story": "Possible Backdoor Activity Associated With MUDCARP Espionage Campaigns", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1059.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "PowerShell", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "CopyKittens", "DarkHydrus", "DarkVishnya", "Deep Panda", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "GOLD SOUTHFIELD", "Gallmaker", "Gorgon Group", "HAFNIUM", "Inception", "Indrik Spider", "Kimsuky", "Leviathan", "Magic Hound", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Poseidon Group", "Sandworm Team", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "Stealth Falcon", "TA459", "TA505", "TEMP.Veles", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Thrip", "Tonto Team", "Turla", "WIRTE", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1059.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Windows Command Shell", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT18", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT37", "APT38", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "Dark Caracal", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Higaisa", "Honeybee", "Indrik Spider", "Ke3chang", "Lazarus Group", "Machete", "Magic Hound", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Rancor", "Sandworm Team", "Silence", "Sowbug", "Suckfly", "TA505", "TA551", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-1314", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "Wizard Spider", "ZIRCONIUM", "admin@338", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1059", "mitre_attack_technique": "Command and Scripting Interpreter", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "APT37", "APT39", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN5", "FIN6", "FIN7", "Fox Kitten", "Ke3chang", "OilRig", "Stealth Falcon", "Whitefly", "Windigo"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1547.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT18", "APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Cobalt Group", "Dark Caracal", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Higaisa", "Honeybee", "Inception", "Ke3chang", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Leviathan", "Magic Hound", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Naikon", "PROMETHIUM", "Patchwork", "Putter Panda", "RTM", "Rocke", "Sharpshooter", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "Windshift", "Wizard Spider", "ZIRCONIUM"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1547", "mitre_attack_technique": "Boot or Logon Autostart Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Command & Control"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - First time seen command line argument - Rule", "ESCU - PowerShell - Connect To Internet With Hidden Window - Rule", "ESCU - Registry Keys Used For Persistence - Rule", "ESCU - Unusually Long Command Line - Rule", "ESCU - Unusually Long Command Line - MLTK - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get History Of Email Sources - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Parent Process Info - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Info - Response Task"], "baseline_names": ["ESCU - Baseline of Command Line Length - MLTK", "ESCU - Previously seen command line arguments"], "author_company": "iDefense", "author_name": "iDefense Cyber Espionage Team"}, {"name": "PrintNightmare CVE-2021-34527", "id": "fd79470a-da88-11eb-b803-acde48001122", "version": 1, "date": "2021-07-01", "author": "Splunk Threat Research Team", "description": "The following analytic story identifies behaviors related PrintNightmare, or CVE-2021-34527 previously known as (CVE-2021-1675), to gain privilege escalation on the vulnerable machine.", "narrative": "This vulnerability affects the Print Spooler service, enabled by default on Windows systems, and allows adversaries to trick this service into installing a remotely hosted print driver using a low privileged user account. Successful exploitation effectively allows adversaries to execute code in the target system (Remote Code Execution) in the context of the Print Spooler service which runs with the highest privileges (Privilege Escalation). \\\nThe prerequisites for successful exploitation consist of: \\\n1. Print Spooler service enabled on the target system \\\n1. Network connectivity to the target system (initial access has been obtained) \\\n1. Hash or password for a low privileged user ( or computer ) account. \\\nIn the most impactful scenario, an attacker would be able to leverage this vulnerability to obtain a SYSTEM shell on a domain controller and so escalate their privileges from a low privileged domain account to full domain access in the target environment as shown below.", "references": ["https://github.com/cube0x0/CVE-2021-1675/", "https://blog.truesec.com/2021/06/30/fix-for-printnightmare-cve-2021-1675-exploit-to-keep-your-print-servers-running-while-a-patch-is-not-available/", "https://blog.truesec.com/2021/06/30/exploitable-critical-rce-vulnerability-allows-regular-users-to-fully-compromise-active-directory-printnightmare-cve-2021-1675/", "https://www.reddit.com/r/msp/comments/ob6y02/critical_vulnerability_printnightmare_exposes"], "tags": {"name": "PrintNightmare CVE-2021-34527", "analytic_story": "PrintNightmare CVE-2021-34527", "category": ["Vulnerability"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1547.012", "mitre_attack_technique": "Print Processors", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1547", "mitre_attack_technique": "Boot or Logon Autostart Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1218", "mitre_attack_technique": "Signed Binary Proxy Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1218.011", "mitre_attack_technique": "Rundll32", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT38", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Carbanak", "CopyKittens", "Gamaredon Group", "HAFNIUM", "MuddyWater", "Sandworm Team", "TA505", "TA551"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1068", "mitre_attack_technique": "Exploitation for Privilege Escalation", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT32", "APT33", "Cobalt Group", "FIN6", "FIN8", "PLATINUM", "Threat Group-3390", "Tonto Team", "Turla", "Whitefly", "ZIRCONIUM"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Print Spooler Adding A Printer Driver - Rule", "ESCU - Print Spooler Failed to Load a Plug-in - Rule", "ESCU - Rundll32 with no Command Line Arguments with Network - Rule", "ESCU - Spoolsv Spawning Rundll32 - Rule", "ESCU - Spoolsv Suspicious Loaded Modules - Rule", "ESCU - Spoolsv Suspicious Process Access - Rule", "ESCU - Spoolsv Writing a DLL - Rule", "ESCU - Spoolsv Writing a DLL - Sysmon - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious Rundll32 no Command Line Arguments - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "no", "author_name": "Splunk Threat Research Team"}, {"name": "Prohibited Traffic Allowed or Protocol Mismatch", "id": "6d13121c-90f3-446d-8ac3-27efbbc65218", "version": 1, "date": "2017-09-11", "author": "Rico Valdez, Splunk", "description": "Detect instances of prohibited network traffic allowed in the environment, as well as protocols running on non-standard ports. Both of these types of behaviors typically violate policy and can be leveraged by attackers.", "narrative": "A traditional security best practice is to control the ports, protocols, and services allowed within your environment. By limiting the services and protocols to those explicitly approved by policy, administrators can minimize the attack surface. The combined effect allows both network defenders and security controls to focus and not be mired in superfluous traffic or data types. Looking for deviations to policy can identify attacker activity that abuses services and protocols to run on alternate or non-standard ports in the attempt to avoid detection or frustrate forensic analysts.", "references": ["http://www.novetta.com/2015/02/advanced-methods-to-detect-advanced-cyber-attacks-protocol-abuse/"], "tags": {"name": "Prohibited Traffic Allowed or Protocol Mismatch", "analytic_story": "Prohibited Traffic Allowed or Protocol Mismatch", "category": ["Best Practices"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Security Monitoring", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1021.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Remote Desktop Protocol", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Lateral Movement"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT3", "APT39", "APT41", "Axiom", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Leviathan", "OilRig", "Patchwork", "Silence", "TEMP.Veles", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1021", "mitre_attack_technique": "Remote Services", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Lateral Movement"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1048", "mitre_attack_technique": "Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Exfiltration"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1048.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Exfiltration Over Unencrypted/Obfuscated Non-C2 Protocol", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Exfiltration"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "APT33", "FIN6", "FIN8", "Lazarus Group", "OilRig", "Thrip", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1071", "mitre_attack_technique": "Application Layer Protocol", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Command And Control"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Dragonfly 2.0", "Magic Hound", "Rocke", "TeamTNT"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1071.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Web Protocols", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Command And Control"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT18", "APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "Dark Caracal", "FIN4", "FIN8", "Gamaredon Group", "HAFNIUM", "Higaisa", "Inception", "Ke3chang", "Lazarus Group", "Magic Hound", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Night Dragon", "OilRig", "Orangeworm", "Rancor", "Rocke", "Sandworm Team", "Sidewinder", "SilverTerrier", "Stealth Falcon", "TA505", "TA551", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "WIRTE", "Windshift", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1189", "mitre_attack_technique": "Drive-by Compromise", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Initial Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "APT37", "APT38", "Andariel", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Dark Caracal", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Elderwood", "Lazarus Group", "Leafminer", "Leviathan", "Machete", "PLATINUM", "PROMETHIUM", "Patchwork", "RTM", "Threat Group-3390", "Transparent Tribe", "Turla", "Windigo", "Windshift"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Command And Control", "Exfiltration", "Initial Access", "Lateral Movement"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint", "Network_Resolution", "Network_Traffic"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Command & Control", "Delivery", "Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Allow Inbound Traffic By Firewall Rule Registry - Rule", "ESCU - Allow Inbound Traffic In Firewall Rule - Rule", "ESCU - Enable RDP In Other Port Number - Rule", "ESCU - Prohibited Network Traffic Allowed - Rule", "ESCU - Protocol or Port Mismatch - Rule", "ESCU - TOR Traffic - Rule", "ESCU - Detect hosts connecting to dynamic domain providers - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get DNS Server History for a host - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Parent Process Info - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Info - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Information For Port Activity - Response Task"], "baseline_names": ["ESCU - Count of Unique IPs Connecting to Ports"], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Rico Valdez"}, {"name": "ProxyShell", "id": "413bb68e-04e2-11ec-a835-acde48001122", "version": 1, "date": "2021-08-24", "author": "Michael Haag, Teoderick Contreras, Mauricio Velazco, Splunk", "description": "ProxyShell is a chain of exploits targeting on-premise Microsoft Exchange Server - CVE-2021-34473, CVE-2021-34523, and CVE-2021-31207.", "narrative": "During Pwn2Own April 2021, a security researcher demonstrated an attack  chain targeting on-premise Microsoft Exchange Server. August 5th, the same researcher  publicly released further details and demonstrated the attack chain. CVE-2021-34473  Pre-auth path confusion leads to ACL Bypass (Patched in April by KB5001779)  CVE-2021-34523 - Elevation of privilege on Exchange PowerShell backend (Patched in April by KB5001779) . CVE-2021-31207 - Post-auth Arbitrary-File-Write  leads to RCE (Patched in May by KB5003435) Upon successful exploitation,  the remote attacker will have SYSTEM privileges on the Exchange Server. In addition    to remote access/execution, the adversary may be able to run Exchange PowerShell  Cmdlets to perform further actions.", "references": ["https://y4y.space/2021/08/12/my-steps-of-reproducing-proxyshell/", "https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/blog/2021/8/17/from-pwn2own-2021-a-new-attack-surface-on-microsoft-exchange-proxyshell", "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC6iHw258RI", "https://www.huntress.com/blog/rapid-response-microsoft-exchange-servers-still-vulnerable-to-proxyshell-exploit#what-should-you-do", "https://i.blackhat.com/USA21/Wednesday-Handouts/us-21-ProxyLogon-Is-Just-The-Tip-Of-The-Iceberg-A-New-Attack-Surface-On-Microsoft-Exchange-Server.pdf"], "tags": {"name": "ProxyShell", "analytic_story": "ProxyShell", "category": ["Adversary Tactics", "Ransomware"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1505", "mitre_attack_technique": "Server Software Component", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1505.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Web Shell", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT29", "APT32", "APT38", "APT39", "BackdoorDiplomacy", "Deep Panda", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Fox Kitten", "GALLIUM", "HAFNIUM", "Kimsuky", "Leviathan", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Sandworm Team", "TEMP.Veles", "Threat Group-3390", "Tonto Team", "Tropic Trooper", "Volatile Cedar"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1190", "mitre_attack_technique": "Exploit Public-Facing Application", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Initial Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT29", "APT39", "APT41", "Axiom", "BackdoorDiplomacy", "BlackTech", "Blue Mockingbird", "Fox Kitten", "GALLIUM", "GOLD SOUTHFIELD", "Night Dragon", "Operation Wocao", "Rocke", "Volatile Cedar", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1059", "mitre_attack_technique": "Command and Scripting Interpreter", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "APT37", "APT39", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN5", "FIN6", "FIN7", "Fox Kitten", "Ke3chang", "OilRig", "Stealth Falcon", "Whitefly", "Windigo"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1059.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "PowerShell", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "CopyKittens", "DarkHydrus", "DarkVishnya", "Deep Panda", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "GOLD SOUTHFIELD", "Gallmaker", "Gorgon Group", "HAFNIUM", "Inception", "Indrik Spider", "Kimsuky", "Leviathan", "Magic Hound", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Poseidon Group", "Sandworm Team", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "Stealth Falcon", "TA459", "TA505", "TEMP.Veles", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Thrip", "Tonto Team", "Turla", "WIRTE", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution", "Initial Access", "Persistence"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Exploitation", "Reconnaissance"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Detect Exchange Web Shell - Rule", "ESCU - W3WP Spawning Shell - Rule", "ESCU - Exchange PowerShell Abuse via SSRF - Rule", "ESCU - Exchange PowerShell Module Usage - Rule", "ESCU - MS Exchange Mailbox Replication service writing Active Server Pages - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Teoderick Contreras, Mauricio Velazco, Splunk", "author_name": "Michael Haag"}, {"name": "Ransomware", "id": "cf309d0d-d4aa-4fbb-963d-1e79febd3756", "version": 1, "date": "2020-02-04", "author": "David Dorsey, Splunk", "description": "Leverage searches that allow you to detect and investigate unusual activities that might relate to ransomware--spikes in SMB traffic, suspicious wevtutil usage, the presence of common ransomware extensions, and system processes run from unexpected locations, and many others.", "narrative": "Ransomware is an ever-present risk to the enterprise, wherein an infected host encrypts business-critical data, holding it hostage until the victim pays the attacker a ransom. There are many types and varieties of ransomware that can affect an enterprise. Attackers can deploy ransomware to enterprises through spearphishing campaigns and driveby downloads, as well as through traditional remote service-based exploitation. In the case of the WannaCry campaign, there was self-propagating wormable functionality that was used to maximize infection. Fortunately, organizations can apply several techniques--such as those in this Analytic Story--to detect and or mitigate the effects of ransomware.", "references": ["https://www.carbonblack.com/2017/06/28/carbon-black-threat-research-technical-analysis-petya-notpetya-ransomware/", "https://www.splunk.com/blog/2017/06/27/closing-the-detection-to-mitigation-gap-or-to-petya-or-notpetya-whocares-.html"], "tags": {"name": "Ransomware", "analytic_story": "Ransomware", "category": ["Malware"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1053.005", "mitre_attack_technique": "Scheduled Task", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT-C-36", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "CostaRicto", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "Gamaredon Group", "Higaisa", "Machete", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Naikon", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Rancor", "Silence", "Stealth Falcon", "TEMP.Veles", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1560.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Archive via Utility", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Collection"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT33", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Chimera", "CopyKittens", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "GALLIUM", "Gallmaker", "HAFNIUM", "Ke3chang", "Magic Hound", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Operation Wocao", "Sowbug", "Turla", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1560", "mitre_attack_technique": "Archive Collected Data", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Collection"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT32", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN6", "Honeybee", "Ke3chang", "Lazarus Group", "Leviathan", "Patchwork", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1562.007", "mitre_attack_technique": "Disable or Modify Cloud Firewall", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1562", "mitre_attack_technique": "Impair Defenses", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1548", "mitre_attack_technique": "Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1490", "mitre_attack_technique": "Inhibit System Recovery", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Impact"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1070.004", "mitre_attack_technique": "File Deletion", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT18", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Evilnum", "FIN10", "FIN5", "FIN6", "FIN8", "Gamaredon Group", "Group5", "Honeybee", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Magic Hound", "Mustang Panda", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Rocke", "Sandworm Team", "Silence", "TEMP.Veles", "TeamTNT", "The White Company", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1070", "mitre_attack_technique": "Indicator Removal on Host", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1218", "mitre_attack_technique": "Signed Binary Proxy Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1218.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "CMSTP", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Cobalt Group", "MuddyWater"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1485", "mitre_attack_technique": "Data Destruction", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Impact"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT38", "Lazarus Group", "Sandworm Team"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1204", "mitre_attack_technique": "User 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"T1569.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Service Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "FIN6", "Honeybee", "Ke3chang", "Operation Wocao", "Silence", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1059", "mitre_attack_technique": "Command and Scripting Interpreter", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "APT37", "APT39", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN5", "FIN6", "FIN7", "Fox Kitten", "Ke3chang", "OilRig", "Stealth Falcon", "Whitefly", "Windigo"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1059.005", "mitre_attack_technique": "Visual Basic", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT-C-36", "APT29", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT38", "APT39", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Cobalt Group", "FIN4", "FIN7", "Frankenstein", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Higaisa", "Honeybee", "Inception", "Kimsuky", "Leviathan", "Machete", "Magic Hound", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Rancor", "Sandworm Team", "Sharpshooter", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "TA459", "TA505", "Transparent Tribe", "Turla", "WIRTE", "Windshift"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1222", "mitre_attack_technique": "File and Directory Permissions Modification", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1491", "mitre_attack_technique": "Defacement", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Impact"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1574.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "DLL Side-Loading", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT3", "APT32", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "BlackTech", "Chimera", "GALLIUM", "Higaisa", "Mustang Panda", "Naikon", "Patchwork", "Sidewinder", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1574", "mitre_attack_technique": "Hijack Execution Flow", 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"mitre_attack_tactics": ["Lateral Movement"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT3", "APT32", "APT39", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Deep Panda", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Ke3chang", "Lazarus Group", "Operation Wocao", "Orangeworm", "Sandworm Team", "Threat Group-1314", "Turla", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1021", "mitre_attack_technique": "Remote Services", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Lateral Movement"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1071", "mitre_attack_technique": "Application Layer Protocol", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Command And Control"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Dragonfly 2.0", "Magic Hound", "Rocke", "TeamTNT"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1071.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Web Protocols", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Command And Control"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT18", "APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "Dark Caracal", "FIN4", "FIN8", "Gamaredon 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Excessive Usage Of SC Service Utility - Rule", "ESCU - Execute Javascript With Jscript COM CLSID - Rule", "ESCU - Fsutil Zeroing File - Rule", "ESCU - ICACLS Grant Command - Rule", "ESCU - Known Services Killed by Ransomware - Rule", "ESCU - Modification Of Wallpaper - Rule", "ESCU - Msmpeng Application DLL Side Loading - Rule", "ESCU - Permission Modification using Takeown App - Rule", "ESCU - Powershell Disable Security Monitoring - Rule", "ESCU - Powershell Enable SMB1Protocol Feature - Rule", "ESCU - Powershell Execute COM Object - Rule", "ESCU - Prevent Automatic Repair Mode using Bcdedit - Rule", "ESCU - Recon AVProduct Through Pwh or WMI - Rule", "ESCU - Recursive Delete of Directory In Batch CMD - Rule", "ESCU - Registry Keys Used For Persistence - Rule", "ESCU - Remote Process Instantiation via WMI - Rule", "ESCU - Revil Common Exec Parameter - Rule", "ESCU - Revil Registry Entry - Rule", "ESCU - Schtasks used for forcing a reboot - Rule", "ESCU - Start Up During Safe Mode Boot - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious Event Log Service Behavior - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious Scheduled Task from Public Directory - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious wevtutil Usage - Rule", "ESCU - System Processes Run From Unexpected Locations - Rule", "ESCU - UAC Bypass With Colorui COM Object - Rule", "ESCU - Uninstall App Using MsiExec - Rule", "ESCU - USN Journal Deletion - Rule", "ESCU - WBAdmin Delete System Backups - Rule", "ESCU - Wbemprox COM Object Execution - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Disable Change Password Through Registry - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Disable Lock Workstation Feature Through Registry - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Disable LogOff Button Through Registry - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Disable Memory Crash Dump - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Disable Shutdown Button Through Registry - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Disable Windows Group Policy Features Through Registry - Rule", "ESCU - Windows DiskCryptor Usage - Rule", "ESCU - Windows DotNet Binary in Non Standard Path - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Event Log Cleared - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Hide Notification Features Through Registry - Rule", "ESCU - Windows InstallUtil in Non Standard Path - Rule", "ESCU - Windows NirSoft AdvancedRun - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Raccine Scheduled Task Deletion - Rule", "ESCU - WinEvent Scheduled Task Created to Spawn Shell - Rule", "ESCU - WinEvent Scheduled Task Created Within Public Path - Rule", "ESCU - MS Exchange Mailbox Replication service writing Active Server Pages - Rule", "ESCU - Spike in File Writes - Rule", "ESCU - Unusually Long Command Line - Rule", "ESCU - Unusually Long Command Line - MLTK - Rule", "ESCU - Prohibited Network Traffic Allowed - Rule", "ESCU - SMB Traffic Spike - Rule", "ESCU - SMB Traffic Spike - MLTK - Rule", "ESCU - TOR Traffic - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get Backup Logs For Endpoint - Response Task", "ESCU - Get History Of Email Sources - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Parent Process Info - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Info - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Information For Port Activity - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Sysmon WMI Activity for Host - Response Task", "ESCU - Rundll32 LockWorkStation - Response Task"], "baseline_names": ["ESCU - Baseline of Command Line Length - MLTK", "ESCU - Baseline of SMB Traffic - MLTK", "ESCU - Count of Unique IPs Connecting to Ports"], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "David Dorsey"}, {"name": "BlackMatter Ransomware", "id": "0da348a3-78a0-412e-ab27-2de9dd7f9fee", "version": 1, "date": "2021-09-06", "author": "Teoderick Contreras, Splunk", "description": "Leverage searches that allow you to detect and investigate unusual activities that might relate to the BlackMatter ransomware, including looking for file writes associated with BlackMatter, force safe mode boot, autadminlogon account registry modification and more.", "narrative": "BlackMatter ransomware campaigns targeting healthcare and other vertical sectors, involve the use of ransomware payloads along with exfiltration of data per HHS bulletin. Malicious actors demand payment for ransome of data and threaten deletion and exposure of exfiltrated data.", "references": ["https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2021/08/09/blackmatter-ransomware-emerges-from-the-shadow-of-darkside/", "https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/blackmatter-ransomware-gang-rises-from-the-ashes-of-darkside-revil/", "https://blog.malwarebytes.com/ransomware/2021/07/blackmatter-a-new-ransomware-group-claims-link-to-darkside-revil/"], "tags": {"name": "BlackMatter Ransomware", "analytic_story": "BlackMatter Ransomware", "category": ["Malware"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1552.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Credentials in Registry", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1552", "mitre_attack_technique": "Unsecured Credentials", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1490", "mitre_attack_technique": "Inhibit System Recovery", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Impact"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1491", "mitre_attack_technique": "Defacement", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Impact"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1486", "mitre_attack_technique": "Data Encrypted for Impact", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Impact"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT38", "APT41", "FIN7", "Indrik Spider", "TA505"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access", "Impact"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Add DefaultUser And Password In Registry - Rule", "ESCU - Auto Admin Logon Registry Entry - Rule", "ESCU - Bcdedit Command Back To Normal Mode Boot - Rule", "ESCU - Change To Safe Mode With Network Config - Rule", "ESCU - Known Services Killed by Ransomware - Rule", "ESCU - Modification Of Wallpaper - Rule", "ESCU - Ransomware Notes bulk creation - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Teoderick Contreras"}, {"name": "Clop Ransomware", "id": "5a6f6849-1a26-4fae-aa05-fa730556eeb6", "version": 1, "date": "2021-03-17", "author": "Rod Soto, Teoderick Contreras, Splunk", "description": "Leverage searches that allow you to detect and investigate unusual activities that might relate to the Clop ransomware, including looking for file writes associated with Clope, encrypting network shares, deleting and resizing shadow volume storage, registry key modification, deleting of security logs, and more.", "narrative": "Clop ransomware campaigns targeting healthcare and other vertical sectors, involve the use of ransomware payloads along with exfiltration of data per HHS bulletin. Malicious actors demand payment for ransome of data and threaten deletion and exposure of exfiltrated data.", "references": ["https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/analyst-note-cl0p-tlp-white.pdf", "https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/115250/data-breach/qualys-clop-ransomware.html", "https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/qualys-is-the-latest-victim-of-accellion-data-breach/d/d-id/1340323"], "tags": {"name": "Clop Ransomware", "analytic_story": "Clop Ransomware", "category": ["Malware"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1204", "mitre_attack_technique": "User Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1543", "mitre_attack_technique": "Create or Modify System Process", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1485", "mitre_attack_technique": "Data Destruction", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Impact"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT38", "Lazarus Group", "Sandworm Team"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1490", "mitre_attack_technique": "Inhibit System Recovery", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Impact"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1486", "mitre_attack_technique": "Data Encrypted for Impact", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Impact"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT38", "APT41", "FIN7", "Indrik Spider", "TA505"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1070", "mitre_attack_technique": "Indicator Removal on Host", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1070.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Clear Windows Event Logs", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT32", "APT38", "APT41", "Chimera", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN5", "FIN8", "Indrik Spider", "Operation Wocao"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1569", "mitre_attack_technique": "System Services", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1569.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Service Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "FIN6", "Honeybee", "Ke3chang", "Operation Wocao", "Silence", "Wizard Spider"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Execution", "Impact", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Clop Common Exec Parameter - Rule", "ESCU - Clop Ransomware Known Service Name - Rule", "ESCU - Common Ransomware Extensions - Rule", "ESCU - Common Ransomware Notes - Rule", "ESCU - Deleting Shadow Copies - Rule", "ESCU - High Process Termination Frequency - Rule", "ESCU - Process Deleting Its Process File Path - Rule", "ESCU - Ransomware Notes bulk creation - Rule", "ESCU - Resize ShadowStorage volume - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious Event Log Service Behavior - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious wevtutil Usage - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Event Log Cleared - Rule", "ESCU - Windows High File Deletion Frequency - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Service Created With Suspicious Service Path - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Teoderick Contreras, Splunk", "author_name": "Rod Soto"}, {"name": "Ransomware Cloud", "id": "f52f6c43-05f8-4b19-a9d3-5b8c56da91c2", "version": 1, "date": "2020-10-27", "author": "Rod Soto, David Dorsey, Splunk", "description": "Leverage searches that allow you to detect and investigate unusual activities that might relate to ransomware. These searches include cloud related objects that may be targeted by malicious actors via cloud providers own encryption features.", "narrative": "Ransomware is an ever-present risk to the enterprise, wherein an infected host encrypts business-critical data, holding it hostage until the victim pays the attacker a ransom. There are many types and varieties of ransomware that can affect an enterprise.Cloud ransomware can be deployed by obtaining high privilege credentials from targeted users or resources.", "references": ["https://rhinosecuritylabs.com/aws/s3-ransomware-part-1-attack-vector/", "https://github.com/d1vious/git-wild-hunt", "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgzNib37g0M"], "tags": {"name": "Ransomware Cloud", "analytic_story": "Ransomware Cloud", "category": ["Malware"], "product": ["Splunk Security Analytics for AWS", "Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1486", "mitre_attack_technique": "Data Encrypted for Impact", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Impact"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT38", "APT41", "FIN7", "Indrik Spider", "TA505"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Impact"], "datamodels": [], "kill_chain_phases": ["Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - AWS Detect Users creating keys with encrypt policy without MFA - Rule", "ESCU - AWS Detect Users with KMS keys performing encryption S3 - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task"], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "David Dorsey, Splunk", "author_name": "Rod Soto"}, {"name": "DarkSide Ransomware", "id": "507edc74-13d5-4339-878e-b9114ded1f35", "version": 1, "date": "2021-05-12", "author": "Bhavin Patel, Splunk", "description": "Leverage searches that allow you to detect and investigate unusual activities that might relate to the DarkSide Ransomware", "narrative": "This story addresses Darkside ransomware. This ransomware payload has many similarities to common ransomware however there are certain items particular to it. The creation of a .TXT log that shows every item being encrypted as well as the creation of ransomware notes and files adding a machine ID created based on CRC32 checksum algorithm. This ransomware payload leaves machines in minimal operation level,enough to browse the attackers websites. A customized URI with leaked information is presented to each victim.This is the ransomware payload that shut down the Colonial pipeline. The story is composed of several detection searches covering similar items to other ransomware payloads and those particular to Darkside payload.", "references": ["https://www.splunk.com/en_us/blog/security/the-darkside-of-the-ransomware-pipeline.htmlbig-game-hunting-with-ryuk-another-lucrative-targeted-ransomware/", "https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2021/05/shining-a-light-on-darkside-ransomware-operations.html"], "tags": {"name": "DarkSide Ransomware", "analytic_story": "DarkSide Ransomware", "category": ["Malware"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1003.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Security Account Manager", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Dragonfly 2.0", "GALLIUM", "Ke3chang", "Night Dragon", "Threat Group-3390", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1003", "mitre_attack_technique": "OS Credential Dumping", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT32", "APT39", "Axiom", "Frankenstein", "Leviathan", "Poseidon Group", "Sowbug", "Suckfly", "Tonto Team"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1197", "mitre_attack_technique": "BITS Jobs", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Persistence"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT39", "APT41", "Leviathan", "Patchwork"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1105", "mitre_attack_technique": "Ingress Tool Transfer", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Command And Control"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT-C-36", "APT18", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "Ajax Security Team", "Andariel", "BRONZE BUTLER", "BackdoorDiplomacy", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Elderwood", "Evilnum", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "HAFNIUM", "IndigoZebra", "Indrik Spider", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Leviathan", "Magic Hound", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "PLATINUM", "Patchwork", "Rancor", "Rocke", "Sandworm Team", "Sharpshooter", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "TA505", "TA551", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Tonto Team", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "Volatile Cedar", "WIRTE", "Whitefly", "Windshift", "ZIRCONIUM", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1218", "mitre_attack_technique": "Signed Binary Proxy Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1218.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "CMSTP", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Cobalt Group", "MuddyWater"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1055", "mitre_attack_technique": "Process Injection", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "APT37", "APT41", "Cobalt Group", "Honeybee", "Kimsuky", "Operation Wocao", "PLATINUM", "Sharpshooter", "Silence", "Turla"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1490", "mitre_attack_technique": "Inhibit System Recovery", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Impact"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1003.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "LSASS Memory", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT28", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Blue Mockingbird", "Cleaver", "FIN6", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "GALLIUM", "HAFNIUM", "Indrik Spider", "Ke3chang", "Kimsuky", "Leafminer", "Leviathan", "Magic Hound", "MuddyWater", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "PLATINUM", "Sandworm Team", "Silence", "TEMP.Veles", "Threat Group-3390", "Whitefly"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1021", "mitre_attack_technique": "Remote Services", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Lateral Movement"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1021.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "SMB/Windows Admin Shares", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Lateral Movement"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT3", "APT32", "APT39", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Deep Panda", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Ke3chang", "Lazarus Group", "Operation Wocao", "Orangeworm", "Sandworm Team", "Threat Group-1314", "Turla", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1020", "mitre_attack_technique": "Automated Exfiltration", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Exfiltration"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Frankenstein", "Gamaredon Group", "Honeybee", "Sidewinder", "Tropic Trooper"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1569", "mitre_attack_technique": "System Services", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1569.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Service Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "FIN6", "Honeybee", "Ke3chang", "Operation Wocao", "Silence", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1486", "mitre_attack_technique": "Data Encrypted for 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BITSAdmin Download File - Rule", "ESCU - CertUtil Download With URLCache and Split Arguments - Rule", "ESCU - CertUtil Download With VerifyCtl and Split Arguments - Rule", "ESCU - CMLUA Or CMSTPLUA UAC Bypass - Rule", "ESCU - Cobalt Strike Named Pipes - Rule", "ESCU - Delete ShadowCopy With PowerShell - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Mimikatz Using Loaded Images - Rule", "ESCU - Detect PsExec With accepteula Flag - Rule", "ESCU - Detect RClone Command-Line Usage - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Renamed PSExec - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Renamed RClone - Rule", "ESCU - Extraction of Registry Hives - Rule", "ESCU - Ransomware Notes bulk creation - Rule", "ESCU - SLUI RunAs Elevated - Rule", "ESCU - SLUI Spawning a Process - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Possible Credential Dumping - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Bhavin Patel"}, {"name": "Revil Ransomware", "id": "817cae42-f54b-457a-8a36-fbf45521e29e", "version": 1, "date": "2021-06-04", "author": "Teoderick Contreras, Splunk", "description": "Leverage searches that allow you to detect and investigate unusual activities that might relate to the Revil ransomware, including looking for file writes associated with Revil, encrypting network shares, deleting shadow volume storage, registry key modification, deleting of security logs, and more.", "narrative": "Revil ransomware is a RaaS,that a single group may operates and manges the development of this ransomware. It involve the use of ransomware payloads along with exfiltration of data. Malicious actors demand payment for ransome of data and threaten deletion and exposure of exfiltrated data.", "references": ["https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/a-closer-look-at-the-darkside-ransomware-gang/", "https://www.mcafee.com/blogs/other-blogs/mcafee-labs/mcafee-atr-analyzes-sodinokibi-aka-revil-ransomware-as-a-service-what-the-code-tells-us/"], "tags": {"name": "Revil Ransomware", "analytic_story": "Revil Ransomware", "category": ["Malware"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1562.007", "mitre_attack_technique": "Disable or Modify Cloud Firewall", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1562", "mitre_attack_technique": "Impair Defenses", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1490", "mitre_attack_technique": "Inhibit System Recovery", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Impact"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1562.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Disable or Modify Tools", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "BRONZE BUTLER", "FIN6", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Indrik Spider", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "MuddyWater", "Night Dragon", "Putter Panda", "Rocke", "TeamTNT", "Turla", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1491", "mitre_attack_technique": "Defacement", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Impact"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1574.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "DLL Side-Loading", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT3", "APT32", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "BlackTech", "Chimera", "GALLIUM", "Higaisa", "Mustang Panda", "Naikon", "Patchwork", "Sidewinder", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1574", "mitre_attack_technique": "Hijack Execution Flow", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1204", "mitre_attack_technique": "User Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1112", "mitre_attack_technique": "Modify Registry", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "APT38", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN8", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Honeybee", "Kimsuky", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Silence", "Threat Group-3390", "Turla", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1218", "mitre_attack_technique": "Signed Binary Proxy Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1218.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "CMSTP", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Cobalt Group", "MuddyWater"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Execution", "Impact", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Allow Network Discovery In Firewall - Rule", "ESCU - Delete ShadowCopy With PowerShell - Rule", "ESCU - Disable Windows Behavior Monitoring - Rule", "ESCU - Modification Of Wallpaper - Rule", "ESCU - Msmpeng Application DLL Side Loading - Rule", "ESCU - Powershell Disable Security Monitoring - Rule", "ESCU - Revil Common Exec Parameter - Rule", "ESCU - Revil Registry Entry - Rule", "ESCU - Wbemprox COM Object Execution - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Teoderick Contreras"}, {"name": "Ryuk Ransomware", "id": "507edc74-13d5-4339-878e-b9744ded1f35", "version": 1, "date": "2020-11-06", "author": "Jose Hernandez, Splunk", "description": "Leverage searches that allow you to detect and investigate unusual activities that might relate to the Ryuk ransomware, including looking for file writes associated with Ryuk, Stopping Security Access Manager, DisableAntiSpyware registry key modification, suspicious psexec use, and more.", "narrative": "Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released Alert (AA20-302A) on October 28th called Ransomware Activity Targeting the Healthcare and Public Health Sector. This alert details TTPs associated with ongoing and possible imminent attacks against the Healthcare sector, and is a joint advisory in coordination with other U.S. Government agencies. The objective of these malicious campaigns is to infiltrate targets in named sectors and to drop ransomware payloads, which will likely cause disruption of service and increase risk of actual harm to the health and safety of patients at hospitals, even with the aggravant of an ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This document specifically refers to several crimeware exploitation frameworks, emphasizing the use of Ryuk ransomware as payload. The Ryuk ransomware payload is not new. It has been well documented and identified in multiple variants. Payloads need a carrier, and for Ryuk it has often been exploitation frameworks such as Cobalt Strike, or popular crimeware frameworks such as Emotet or Trickbot.", "references": ["https://www.splunk.com/en_us/blog/security/detecting-ryuk-using-splunk-attack-range.html", "https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/big-game-hunting-with-ryuk-another-lucrative-targeted-ransomware/", "https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/alerts/aa20-302a"], "tags": {"name": "Ryuk Ransomware", "analytic_story": "Ryuk Ransomware", "category": ["Malware"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1059.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Windows Command Shell", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT18", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT37", "APT38", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "Dark Caracal", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Higaisa", "Honeybee", "Indrik Spider", "Ke3chang", "Lazarus Group", "Machete", "Magic Hound", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Rancor", "Sandworm Team", "Silence", "Sowbug", "Suckfly", "TA505", "TA551", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-1314", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "Wizard Spider", "ZIRCONIUM", "admin@338", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1490", "mitre_attack_technique": "Inhibit System Recovery", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Impact"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1485", "mitre_attack_technique": "Data Destruction", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Impact"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT38", "Lazarus Group", "Sandworm Team"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1482", "mitre_attack_technique": "Domain Trust Discovery", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Discovery"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "Chimera", "FIN8"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1486", "mitre_attack_technique": "Data Encrypted for Impact", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Impact"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT38", "APT41", "FIN7", "Indrik Spider", "TA505"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1059", "mitre_attack_technique": "Command and Scripting Interpreter", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "APT37", "APT39", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN5", "FIN6", "FIN7", "Fox Kitten", "Ke3chang", "OilRig", "Stealth Falcon", "Whitefly", "Windigo"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1053.005", "mitre_attack_technique": "Scheduled Task", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT-C-36", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "CostaRicto", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "Gamaredon Group", "Higaisa", "Machete", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Naikon", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Rancor", "Silence", "Stealth Falcon", "TEMP.Veles", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1053", "mitre_attack_technique": "Scheduled Task/Job", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1562.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Disable or Modify Tools", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "BRONZE BUTLER", "FIN6", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Indrik Spider", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "MuddyWater", "Night Dragon", "Putter Panda", "Rocke", "TeamTNT", "Turla", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1562", "mitre_attack_technique": "Impair Defenses", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1489", "mitre_attack_technique": "Service Stop", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Impact"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Indrik Spider", "Lazarus Group", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1021.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Remote Desktop Protocol", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Lateral Movement"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT3", "APT39", "APT41", "Axiom", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Leviathan", "OilRig", "Patchwork", "Silence", "TEMP.Veles", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1021", "mitre_attack_technique": "Remote Services", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Lateral Movement"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Discovery", "Execution", "Impact", "Lateral Movement", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint", "Network_Traffic"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Delivery", "Exploitation", "Reconnaissance"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Windows connhost exe started forcefully - Rule", "ESCU - BCDEdit Failure Recovery Modification - Rule", "ESCU - Common Ransomware Extensions - Rule", "ESCU - Common Ransomware Notes - Rule", "ESCU - NLTest Domain Trust Discovery - Rule", "ESCU - Ryuk Test Files Detected - Rule", "ESCU - Ryuk Wake on LAN Command - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious Scheduled Task from Public Directory - Rule", "ESCU - WBAdmin Delete System Backups - Rule", "ESCU - Windows DisableAntiSpyware Registry - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Security Account Manager Stopped - Rule", "ESCU - WinEvent Scheduled Task Created to Spawn Shell - Rule", "ESCU - WinEvent Scheduled Task Created Within Public Path - Rule", "ESCU - Spike in File Writes - Rule", "ESCU - Remote Desktop Network Bruteforce - Rule", "ESCU - Remote Desktop Network Traffic - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task"], "baseline_names": ["ESCU - Identify Systems Creating Remote Desktop Traffic", "ESCU - Identify Systems Receiving Remote Desktop Traffic", "ESCU - Identify Systems Using Remote Desktop"], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Jose Hernandez"}, {"name": "SamSam Ransomware", "id": "c4b89506-fbcf-4cb7-bfd6-527e54789604", "version": 1, "date": "2018-12-13", "author": "Rico Valdez, Splunk", "description": "Leverage searches that allow you to detect and investigate unusual activities that might relate to the SamSam ransomware, including looking for file writes associated with SamSam, RDP brute force attacks, the presence of files with SamSam ransomware extensions, suspicious psexec use, and more.", "narrative": "The first version of the SamSam ransomware (a.k.a. Samas or SamsamCrypt) was launched in 2015 by a group of Iranian threat actors. The malicious software has affected and continues to affect thousands of victims and has raised almost $6M in ransom.\\\nAlthough categorized under the heading of ransomware, SamSam campaigns have some importance distinguishing characteristics. Most notable is the fact that conventional ransomware is a numbers game. Perpetrators use a \"spray-and-pray\" approach with phishing campaigns or other mechanisms, charging a small ransom (typically under $1,000). The goal is to find a large number of victims willing to pay these mini-ransoms, adding up to a lucrative payday. They use relatively simple methods for infecting systems.\\\nSamSam attacks are different beasts. They have become progressively more targeted and skillful than typical ransomware attacks. First, malicious actors break into a victim's network, surveil it, then run the malware manually. The attacks are tailored to cause maximum damage and the threat actors usually demand amounts in the tens of thousands of dollars.\\\nIn a typical attack on one large healthcare organization in 2018, the company ended up paying a ransom of four Bitcoins, then worth $56,707. Reports showed that access to the company's files was restored within two hours of paying the sum.\\\nAccording to Sophos, SamSam previously leveraged  RDP to gain access to targeted networks via brute force. SamSam is not spread automatically, like other malware. It requires skill because it forces the attacker to adapt their tactics to the individual environment. Next, the actors escalate their privileges to admin level. They scan the networks for worthy targets, using conventional tools, such as PsExec or PaExec, to deploy/execute, quickly encrypting files.\\\nThis Analytic Story includes searches designed to help detect and investigate signs of the SamSam ransomware, such as the creation of fileswrites to system32, writes with tell-tale extensions, batch files written to system32, and evidence of brute-force attacks via RDP.", "references": ["https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/an-in-depth-analysis-of-samsam-ransomware-and-boss-spider/", "https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/07/31/samsam-the-almost-6-million-ransomware/", "https://thehackernews.com/2018/07/samsam-ransomware-attacks.html"], "tags": {"name": "SamSam Ransomware", "analytic_story": "SamSam Ransomware", "category": ["Malware"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1036.005", "mitre_attack_technique": "Match 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"mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT32", "APT39", "Axiom", "Frankenstein", "Leviathan", "Poseidon Group", "Sowbug", "Suckfly", "Tonto Team"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1595", "mitre_attack_technique": "Active Scanning", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Reconnaissance"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1204", "mitre_attack_technique": "User Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1204.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Malicious File", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT-C-36", "APT12", "APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT30", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT38", "APT39", "Ajax Security Team", "Andariel", "BRONZE BUTLER", "BlackTech", "Cobalt Group", "Dark Caracal", "DarkHydrus", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Elderwood", "FIN4", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Ferocious Kitten", "Frankenstein", "Gallmaker", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Higaisa", "Inception", "IndigoZebra", "Indrik Spider", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Leviathan", "Machete", "Magic Hound", "Mofang", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Naikon", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "PLATINUM", "PROMETHIUM", "Patchwork", "RTM", "Rancor", "Sandworm Team", "Sharpshooter", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "TA459", "TA505", "TA551", "The White Company", "Tonto Team", "Transparent Tribe", "Tropic Trooper", "Whitefly", "Windshift", "Wizard Spider", "admin@338", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1485", "mitre_attack_technique": "Data Destruction", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Impact"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT38", "Lazarus Group", "Sandworm Team"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1490", "mitre_attack_technique": "Inhibit System Recovery", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Impact"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1021", "mitre_attack_technique": "Remote Services", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Lateral Movement"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1021.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "SMB/Windows Admin Shares", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Lateral Movement"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT3", "APT32", "APT39", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Deep Panda", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Ke3chang", "Lazarus Group", "Operation Wocao", "Orangeworm", "Sandworm Team", "Threat Group-1314", "Turla", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1569", "mitre_attack_technique": "System Services", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1569.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Service Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "FIN6", "Honeybee", "Ke3chang", "Operation Wocao", "Silence", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1486", "mitre_attack_technique": "Data Encrypted for Impact", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Impact"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT38", "APT41", "FIN7", "Indrik Spider", "TA505"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1021.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Remote Desktop Protocol", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Lateral Movement"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT3", "APT39", "APT41", "Axiom", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Leviathan", "OilRig", "Patchwork", "Silence", "TEMP.Veles", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1082", "mitre_attack_technique": "System Information Discovery", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Discovery"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT18", "APT19", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT37", "APT38", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Darkhotel", "Frankenstein", "Gamaredon Group", "Higaisa", "Honeybee", "Inception", "Ke3chang", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Magic Hound", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Rocke", "Sandworm Team", "Sidewinder", "Sowbug", "Stealth Falcon", "TeamTNT", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "Windigo", "Windshift", "Wizard Spider", "ZIRCONIUM", "admin@338"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access", "Defense Evasion", "Discovery", "Execution", "Impact", "Lateral Movement", "Reconnaissance"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint", "Network_Traffic", "Web"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Command & Control", "Delivery", "Exploitation", "Installation", "Reconnaissance"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Prohibited Software On Endpoint - Rule", "ESCU - Attacker Tools On Endpoint - Rule", "ESCU - Batch File Write to System32 - Rule", "ESCU - Common Ransomware Extensions - Rule", "ESCU - Common Ransomware Notes - Rule", "ESCU - Deleting Shadow Copies - Rule", "ESCU - Detect PsExec With accepteula Flag - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Renamed PSExec - Rule", "ESCU - File with Samsam Extension - Rule", "ESCU - Samsam Test File Write - Rule", "ESCU - Spike in File Writes - Rule", "ESCU - Remote Desktop Network Bruteforce - Rule", "ESCU - Remote Desktop Network Traffic - Rule", "ESCU - Detect attackers scanning for vulnerable JBoss servers - Rule", "ESCU - Detect malicious requests to exploit JBoss servers - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get Backup Logs For Endpoint - Response Task", "ESCU - Get History Of Email Sources - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Parent Process Info - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Info - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Information For Port Activity - Response Task", "ESCU - Investigate Successful Remote Desktop Authentications - Response Task"], "baseline_names": ["ESCU - Add Prohibited Processes to Enterprise Security", "ESCU - Identify Systems Creating Remote Desktop Traffic", "ESCU - Identify Systems Receiving Remote Desktop Traffic", "ESCU - Identify Systems Using Remote Desktop"], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Rico Valdez"}, {"name": "Remcos", "id": "2bd4aa08-b9a5-40cf-bfe5-7d43f13d496c", "version": 1, "date": "2021-09-23", "author": "Teoderick Contreras, Splunk", "description": "Leverage searches that allow you to detect and investigate unusual activities that might relate to the Remcos RAT trojan, including looking for file writes associated with its payload, screencapture, registry modification, UAC bypassed, persistence and data collection..", "narrative": "Remcos or Remote Control and Surveillance, marketed as a legitimate software for remotely managing Windows systems is now widely used in multiple malicious campaigns both APT and commodity malware by threat actors.", "references": ["https://success.trendmicro.com/solution/1123281-remcos-malware-information", "https://attack.mitre.org/software/S0332/", "https://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/details/win.remcos#:~:text=Remcos%20(acronym%20of%20Remote%20Control,used%20to%20remotely%20control%20computers.&text=Remcos%20can%20be%20used%20for,been%20used%20in%20hacking%20campaigns."], "tags": {"name": "Remcos", "analytic_story": "Remcos", "category": ["Malware"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1562.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Disable or Modify Tools", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "BRONZE BUTLER", "FIN6", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Indrik Spider", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "MuddyWater", "Night Dragon", "Putter Panda", "Rocke", "TeamTNT", "Turla", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1562", "mitre_attack_technique": "Impair Defenses", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1548.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Bypass User Account Control", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "APT37", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Cobalt Group", "Evilnum", "Honeybee", "MuddyWater", "Patchwork", "Threat Group-3390"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1548", "mitre_attack_technique": "Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1036", "mitre_attack_technique": "Masquerading", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT29", "APT32", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "PLATINUM", "TA551", "Windshift", "ZIRCONIUM", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1059", "mitre_attack_technique": "Command and Scripting Interpreter", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "APT37", "APT39", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN5", "FIN6", "FIN7", "Fox Kitten", "Ke3chang", "OilRig", "Stealth Falcon", "Whitefly", "Windigo"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1059.007", "mitre_attack_technique": "JavaScript", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "Cobalt Group", "Evilnum", "FIN6", "FIN7", "Higaisa", "Indrik Spider", "Kimsuky", "Leafminer", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "TA505", "Turla"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1055", "mitre_attack_technique": "Process Injection", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "APT37", "APT41", "Cobalt Group", "Honeybee", "Kimsuky", "Operation Wocao", "PLATINUM", "Sharpshooter", "Silence", "Turla"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1055.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Dynamic-link Library Injection", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["BackdoorDiplomacy", "Lazarus Group", "Leviathan", "Putter Panda", "TA505", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1218.010", "mitre_attack_technique": "Regsvr32", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "Blue Mockingbird", "Cobalt Group", "Deep Panda", "Inception", "Leviathan", "TA551", "WIRTE"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1112", "mitre_attack_technique": "Modify Registry", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "APT38", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN8", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Honeybee", "Kimsuky", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Silence", "Threat Group-3390", "Turla", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1555", "mitre_attack_technique": "Credentials from Password Stores", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "APT33", "APT39", "Evilnum", "FIN6", "Leafminer", "MuddyWater", "OilRig", "Stealth Falcon"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1555.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Credentials from Web Browsers", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT3", "APT33", "APT37", "Ajax Security Team", "FIN6", "Inception", "Kimsuky", "Leafminer", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "OilRig", "Patchwork", "Sandworm Team", "Stealth Falcon", "TA505", "ZIRCONIUM"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1070", "mitre_attack_technique": "Indicator Removal on Host", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1559.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Component Object Model", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Gamaredon Group", "MuddyWater"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1547.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT18", "APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Cobalt Group", "Dark Caracal", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Higaisa", "Honeybee", "Inception", "Ke3chang", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Leviathan", "Magic Hound", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Naikon", "PROMETHIUM", "Patchwork", "Putter Panda", "RTM", "Rocke", "Sharpshooter", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "Windshift", "Wizard Spider", "ZIRCONIUM"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1547", "mitre_attack_technique": "Boot or Logon Autostart Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1218", "mitre_attack_technique": "Signed Binary Proxy Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1113", "mitre_attack_technique": "Screen Capture", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Collection"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT39", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Dark Caracal", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN7", "GOLD SOUTHFIELD", "Gamaredon Group", "Group5", "Magic Hound", "MuddyWater", "OilRig", "Silence"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1059.005", "mitre_attack_technique": "Visual Basic", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT-C-36", "APT29", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT38", "APT39", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Cobalt Group", "FIN4", "FIN7", "Frankenstein", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Higaisa", "Honeybee", "Inception", "Kimsuky", "Leviathan", "Machete", "Magic Hound", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Rancor", "Sandworm Team", "Sharpshooter", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "TA459", "TA505", "Transparent Tribe", "Turla", "WIRTE", "Windshift"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1543", "mitre_attack_technique": "Create or Modify System Process", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1592", "mitre_attack_technique": "Gather Victim Host Information", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Reconnaissance"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1134.004", "mitre_attack_technique": "Parent PID Spoofing", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1134", "mitre_attack_technique": "Access Token Manipulation", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Blue Mockingbird", "FIN6"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Collection", "Credential Access", "Defense Evasion", "Execution", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation", "Reconnaissance"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Exploitation", "Reconnaissance"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Add or Set Windows Defender Exclusion - Rule", "ESCU - Disabling Remote User Account Control - Rule", "ESCU - Executables Or Script Creation In Suspicious Path - Rule", "ESCU - Jscript Execution Using Cscript App - Rule", "ESCU - Loading Of Dynwrapx Module - Rule", "ESCU - Malicious InProcServer32 Modification - Rule", "ESCU - Non Chrome Process Accessing Chrome Default Dir - Rule", "ESCU - Non Firefox Process Access Firefox Profile Dir - Rule", "ESCU - Possible Browser Pass View Parameter - Rule", "ESCU - Powershell Windows Defender Exclusion Commands - Rule", "ESCU - Process Deleting Its Process File Path - Rule", "ESCU - Process Writing DynamicWrapperX - Rule", "ESCU - Registry Keys Used For Persistence - Rule", "ESCU - Regsvr32 Silent and Install Param Dll Loading - Rule", "ESCU - Regsvr32 with Known Silent Switch Cmdline - Rule", "ESCU - Remcos client registry install entry - Rule", "ESCU - Remcos RAT File Creation in Remcos Folder - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious Image Creation In Appdata Folder - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious Process DNS Query Known Abuse Web Services - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious Process File Path - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious WAV file in Appdata Folder - Rule", "ESCU - System Info Gathering Using Dxdiag Application - Rule", "ESCU - Vbscript Execution Using Wscript App - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Defender Exclusion Registry Entry - Rule", "ESCU - Winhlp32 Spawning a Process - Rule", "ESCU - Wscript Or Cscript Suspicious Child Process - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Teoderick Contreras"}, {"name": "Router and Infrastructure Security", "id": "91c676cf-0b23-438d-abee-f6335e177e77", "version": 1, "date": "2017-09-12", "author": "Bhavin Patel, Splunk", "description": "Validate the security configuration of network infrastructure and verify that only authorized users and systems are accessing critical assets. Core routing and switching infrastructure are common strategic targets for attackers.", "narrative": "Networking devices, such as routers and switches, are often overlooked as resources that attackers will leverage to subvert an enterprise. Advanced threats actors have shown a proclivity to target these critical assets as a means to siphon and redirect network traffic, flash backdoored operating systems, and implement cryptographic weakened algorithms to more easily decrypt network traffic.\\\nThis Analytic Story helps you gain a better understanding of how your network devices are interacting with your hosts. By compromising your network devices, attackers can obtain direct access to the company's internal infrastructure&#151; effectively increasing the attack surface and accessing private services/data.", "references": ["https://www.fireeye.com/blog/executive-perspective/2015/09/the_new_route_toper.html", "https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/about/security-center/event-response/synful-knock.html"], "tags": {"name": "Router and Infrastructure Security", "analytic_story": "Router and Infrastructure Security", "category": ["Best Practices"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Security Monitoring", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1200", "mitre_attack_technique": "Hardware Additions", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Initial Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["DarkVishnya"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1498", "mitre_attack_technique": "Network Denial of Service", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Impact"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1557", "mitre_attack_technique": "Adversary-in-the-Middle", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Collection", "Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Kimsuky"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1557.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "ARP Cache Poisoning", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Collection", "Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Cleaver"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1542.005", "mitre_attack_technique": "TFTP Boot", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Persistence"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1542", "mitre_attack_technique": "Pre-OS Boot", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Persistence"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1020", "mitre_attack_technique": "Automated Exfiltration", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Exfiltration"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Frankenstein", "Gamaredon Group", "Honeybee", "Sidewinder", "Tropic Trooper"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1020.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Traffic Duplication", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Exfiltration"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Collection", "Credential Access", "Defense Evasion", "Exfiltration", "Impact", "Initial Access", "Persistence"], "datamodels": ["Authentication", "Network_Traffic"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Delivery", "Exploitation", "Reconnaissance"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Detect New Login Attempts to Routers - Rule", "ESCU - Detect ARP Poisoning - Rule", "ESCU - Detect IPv6 Network Infrastructure Threats - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Port Security Violation - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Rogue DHCP Server - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Software Download To Network Device - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Traffic Mirroring - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task"], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Bhavin Patel"}, {"name": "Signed Binary Proxy Execution InstallUtil", "id": "9482a314-43dc-11ec-a3c9-acde48001122", "version": 1, "date": "2021-11-12", "author": "Michael Haag, Splunk", "description": "Adversaries may use InstallUtil to proxy execution of code through a trusted Windows utility.", "narrative": "InstallUtil is a command-line utility that allows for installation and uninstallation of resources by executing specific installer components specified in .NET binaries. InstallUtil is digitally signed by Microsoft and located in the .NET directories on a Windows system: C:\\Windows\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework\\v\\InstallUtil.exe and C:\\Windows\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework64\\v\\InstallUtil.exe. \\\nThere are multiple ways to instantiate InstallUtil and they are all outlined within Atomic Red Team - https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/master/atomics/T1218.004/T1218.004.md. Two specific ways may be used and that includes invoking via  installer assembly class constructor through .NET and via InstallUtil.exe. \\\nTypically, adversaries will utilize the most commonly found way to invoke via InstallUtil Uninstall method. \\\nNote that parallel processes, and parent process, play a role in how InstallUtil is being used. In particular, a developer using InstallUtil will spawn from VisualStudio. Adversaries, will spawn from non-standard processes like Explorer.exe, cmd.exe or PowerShell.exe. It's important to review the command-line to identify the DLL being loaded. \\\nParallel processes may also include csc.exe being used to compile a local `.cs` file. This file will be the input to the output. Developers usually do not build direct on the command shell, therefore this should raise suspicion.", "references": ["https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1218/004/", "https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/master/atomics/T1218.004/T1218.004.md"], "tags": {"name": "Signed Binary Proxy Execution InstallUtil", "analytic_story": "Signed Binary Proxy Execution InstallUtil", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1036", "mitre_attack_technique": "Masquerading", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT29", "APT32", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "PLATINUM", "TA551", "Windshift", "ZIRCONIUM", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1036.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Rename System Utilities", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "GALLIUM", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1218", "mitre_attack_technique": "Signed Binary Proxy Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1218.004", "mitre_attack_technique": "InstallUtil", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Mustang Panda", "menuPass"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Windows DotNet Binary in Non Standard Path - Rule", "ESCU - Windows InstallUtil Credential Theft - Rule", "ESCU - Windows InstallUtil in Non Standard Path - Rule", "ESCU - Windows InstallUtil Remote Network Connection - Rule", "ESCU - Windows InstallUtil Uninstall Option - Rule", "ESCU - Windows InstallUtil Uninstall Option with Network - Rule", "ESCU - Windows InstallUtil URL in Command Line - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Michael Haag"}, {"name": "Silver Sparrow", "id": "cb4f48fe-7699-11eb-af77-acde48001122", "version": 1, "date": "2021-02-24", "author": "Michael Haag, Splunk", "description": "Silver Sparrow, identified by Red Canary Intelligence, is a new forward looking MacOS (Intel and M1) malicious software downloader utilizing JavaScript for execution and a launchAgent to establish persistence.", "narrative": "Silver Sparrow works is a dropper and uses typical persistence mechanisms on a Mac. It is cross platform, covering both Intel and Apple M1 architecture. To this date, no implant has been downloaded for malicious purposes. During installation of the update.pkg or updater.pkg file, the malicious software utilizes JavaScript to generate files and scripts on disk for persistence.These files later download a implant from an S3 bucket every hour. This analytic assists with identifying different types of macOS malware families establishing LaunchAgent persistence. Per SentinelOne source, it is predicted that Silver Sparrow is likely selling itself as a mechanism to 3rd party Caffiliates or pay-per-install (PPI) partners, typically seen as commodity adware/malware. Additional indicators and behaviors may be found within the references.", "references": ["https://redcanary.com/blog/clipping-silver-sparrows-wings/", "https://www.sentinelone.com/blog/5-things-you-need-to-know-about-silver-sparrow/"], "tags": {"name": "Silver Sparrow", "analytic_story": "Silver Sparrow", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1105", "mitre_attack_technique": "Ingress Tool Transfer", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Command And Control"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT-C-36", "APT18", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "Ajax Security Team", "Andariel", "BRONZE BUTLER", "BackdoorDiplomacy", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Elderwood", "Evilnum", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "HAFNIUM", "IndigoZebra", "Indrik Spider", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Leviathan", "Magic Hound", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "PLATINUM", "Patchwork", "Rancor", "Rocke", "Sandworm Team", "Sharpshooter", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "TA505", "TA551", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Tonto Team", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "Volatile Cedar", "WIRTE", "Whitefly", "Windshift", "ZIRCONIUM", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1543.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Launch Agent", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1543", "mitre_attack_technique": "Create or Modify System Process", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1074", "mitre_attack_technique": "Data Staged", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Collection"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Wizard Spider"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Collection", "Command And Control", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Suspicious Curl Network Connection - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious PlistBuddy Usage - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious PlistBuddy Usage via OSquery - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious SQLite3 LSQuarantine Behavior - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Michael Haag"}, {"name": "Spearphishing Attachments", "id": "57226b40-94f3-4ce5-b101-a75f67759c27", "version": 1, "date": "2019-04-29", "author": "Splunk Research Team, Splunk", "description": "Detect signs of malicious payloads that may indicate that your environment has been breached via a phishing attack.", "narrative": "Despite its simplicity, phishing remains the most pervasive and dangerous cyberthreat. In fact, research shows that as many as [91% of all successful attacks](https://digitalguardian.com/blog/91-percent-cyber-attacks-start-phishing-email-heres-how-protect-against-phishing) are initiated via a phishing email. \\\nAs most people know, these emails use fraudulent domains, [email scraping](https://www.cyberscoop.com/emotet-trojan-phishing-scraping-templates-cofense-geodo/), familiar contact names inserted as senders, and other tactics to lure targets into clicking a malicious link, opening an attachment with a [nefarious payload](https://www.cyberscoop.com/emotet-trojan-phishing-scraping-templates-cofense-geodo/), or entering sensitive personal information that perpetrators may intercept. This attack technique requires a relatively low level of skill and allows adversaries to easily cast a wide net. Worse, because its success relies on the gullibility of humans, it's impossible to completely \"automate\" it out of your environment. However, you can use ES and ESCU to detect and investigate potentially malicious payloads injected into your environment subsequent to a phishing attack. \\\nWhile any kind of file may contain a malicious payload, some are more likely to be perceived as benign (and thus more often escape notice) by the average victim&#151;especially when the attacker sends an email that seems to be from one of their contacts. An example is Microsoft Office files. Most corporate users are familiar with documents with the following suffixes: .doc/.docx (MS Word), .xls/.xlsx (MS Excel), and .ppt/.pptx (MS PowerPoint), so they may click without a second thought, slashing a hole in their organizations' security. \\\nFollowing is a typical series of events, according to an [article by Trend Micro](https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/rising-trend-attackers-using-lnk-files-download-malware/):\\\n1. Attacker sends a phishing email. Recipient downloads the attached file, which is typically a .docx or .zip file with an embedded .lnk file\\\n1. The .lnk file executes a PowerShell script\\\n1. Powershell executes a reverse shell, rendering the exploit successful </ol>As a side note, adversaries are likely to use a tool like Empire to craft and obfuscate payloads and their post-injection activities, such as [exfiltration, lateral movement, and persistence](https://github.com/EmpireProject/Empire).\\\nThis Analytic Story focuses on detecting signs that a malicious payload has been injected into your environment. For example, one search detects outlook.exe writing a .zip file. 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Excel Spawning PowerShell - Rule", "ESCU - Excel Spawning Windows Script Host - Rule", "ESCU - MSHTML Module Load in Office Product - Rule", "ESCU - Office Application Spawn rundll32 process - Rule", "ESCU - Office Document Creating Schedule Task - Rule", "ESCU - Office Document Executing Macro Code - Rule", "ESCU - Office Document Spawned Child Process To Download - Rule", "ESCU - Office Product Spawning BITSAdmin - Rule", "ESCU - Office Product Spawning CertUtil - Rule", "ESCU - Office Product Spawning MSHTA - Rule", "ESCU - Office Product Spawning Rundll32 with no DLL - Rule", "ESCU - Office Product Spawning Wmic - Rule", "ESCU - Office Product Writing cab or inf - Rule", "ESCU - Office Spawning Control - Rule", "ESCU - Process Creating LNK file in Suspicious Location - Rule", "ESCU - Winword Spawning Cmd - Rule", "ESCU - Winword Spawning PowerShell - Rule", "ESCU - Gdrive suspicious file sharing - Rule", "ESCU - Gsuite suspicious calendar invite - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Outlook exe writing a zip file - 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Splunk DoS via Malformed S2S Request - Rule", "ESCU - Open Redirect in Splunk Web - Rule", "ESCU - Splunk Enterprise Information Disclosure - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Lou Stella"}, {"name": "SQL Injection", "id": "4f6632f5-449c-4686-80df-57625f59bab3", "version": 1, "date": "2017-09-19", "author": "Bhavin Patel, Splunk", "description": "Use the searches in this Analytic Story to help you detect structured query language (SQL) injection attempts characterized by long URLs that contain malicious parameters.", "narrative": "It is very common for attackers to inject SQL parameters into vulnerable web applications, which then interpret the malicious SQL statements.\\\nThis Analytic Story contains a search designed to identify attempts by attackers to leverage this technique to compromise a host and gain a foothold in the target environment.", "references": ["https://capec.mitre.org/data/definitions/66.html", "https://www.incapsula.com/web-application-security/sql-injection.html"], "tags": {"name": "SQL Injection", "analytic_story": "SQL Injection", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1190", "mitre_attack_technique": "Exploit Public-Facing Application", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Initial Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT29", "APT39", "APT41", "Axiom", "BackdoorDiplomacy", "BlackTech", "Blue Mockingbird", "Fox Kitten", "GALLIUM", "GOLD SOUTHFIELD", "Night Dragon", "Operation Wocao", "Rocke", "Volatile Cedar", "menuPass"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Initial Access"], "datamodels": ["Web"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Delivery"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - SQL Injection with Long URLs - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task"], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Bhavin Patel"}, {"name": "Suspicious AWS Login Activities", "id": "2e8948a5-5239-406b-b56b-6c59f1268af3", "version": 1, "date": "2019-05-01", "author": "Bhavin Patel, Splunk", "description": "Monitor your AWS authentication events using your CloudTrail logs. Searches within this Analytic Story will help you stay aware of and investigate suspicious logins. ", "narrative": "It is important to monitor and control who has access to your AWS infrastructure. Detecting suspicious logins to your AWS infrastructure will provide good starting points for investigations. Abusive behaviors caused by compromised credentials can lead to direct monetary costs, as you will be billed for any EC2 instances created by the attacker.", "references": ["https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/cloudtrail-integration.html"], "tags": {"name": "Suspicious AWS Login Activities", "analytic_story": "Suspicious AWS Login Activities", "category": ["Cloud Security"], "product": ["Splunk Security Analytics for AWS", "Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Security Monitoring", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1535", "mitre_attack_technique": "Unused/Unsupported Cloud Regions", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1078.004", "mitre_attack_technique": "Cloud Accounts", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Initial Access", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT33"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Initial Access", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "datamodels": ["Authentication"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Detect AWS Console Login by User from New City - Rule", "ESCU - Detect AWS Console Login by User from New Country - Rule", "ESCU - Detect AWS Console Login by User from New Region - Rule", "ESCU - Detect new user AWS Console Login - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - AWS Investigate User Activities By ARN - Response Task"], "baseline_names": ["ESCU - Previously seen users in CloudTrail", "ESCU - Update previously seen users in CloudTrail"], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Bhavin Patel"}, {"name": "Suspicious AWS S3 Activities", "id": "66732346-8fb0-407b-9633-da16756567d6", "version": 2, "date": "2018-07-24", "author": "Bhavin Patel, Splunk", "description": "Use the searches in this Analytic Story to monitor your AWS S3 buckets for evidence of anomalous activity and suspicious behaviors, such as detecting open S3 buckets and buckets being accessed from a new IP. The contextual and investigative searches will give you more information, when required.", "narrative": "As cloud computing has exploded, so has the number of creative attacks on virtual environments. And as the number-two cloud-service provider, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has certainly had its share.\\\nAmazon's \"shared responsibility\" model dictates that the company has responsibility for the environment outside of the VM and the customer is responsible for the security inside of the S3 container. As such, it's important to stay vigilant for activities that may belie suspicious behavior inside of your environment.\\\nAmong things to look out for are S3 access from unfamiliar locations and by unfamiliar users. Some of the searches in this Analytic Story help you detect suspicious behavior and others help you investigate more deeply, when the situation warrants.   ", "references": ["https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/aws-security-best-practices.pdf", "https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/security-data-protection/cloud/public-aws-s3-buckets-writable/"], "tags": {"name": "Suspicious AWS S3 Activities", "analytic_story": "Suspicious AWS S3 Activities", "category": ["Cloud Security"], "product": ["Splunk Security Analytics for AWS", "Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Security Monitoring", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1530", "mitre_attack_technique": "Data from Cloud Storage Object", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Collection"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Fox Kitten"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Collection"], "datamodels": [], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Detect New Open S3 buckets - Rule", "ESCU - Detect New Open S3 Buckets over AWS CLI - Rule", "ESCU - Detect S3 access from a new IP - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Spike in S3 Bucket deletion - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - AWS Investigate User Activities By ARN - Response Task", "ESCU - AWS S3 Bucket details via bucketName - Response Task", "ESCU - Get All AWS Activity From IP Address - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task", "ESCU - Investigate AWS activities via region name - Response Task"], "baseline_names": ["ESCU - Baseline of S3 Bucket deletion activity by ARN", "ESCU - Previously seen S3 bucket access by remote IP"], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Bhavin Patel"}, {"name": "Suspicious AWS Traffic", "id": "2e8948a5-5239-406b-b56b-6c50f2168af3", "version": 1, "date": "2018-05-07", "author": "Bhavin Patel, Splunk", "description": "Leverage these searches to monitor your AWS network traffic for evidence of anomalous activity and suspicious behaviors, such as a spike in blocked outbound traffic in your virtual private cloud (VPC).", "narrative": "A virtual private cloud (VPC) is an on-demand managed cloud-computing service that isolates computing resources for each client. Inside the VPC container, the environment resembles a physical network. \\\nAmazon's VPC service enables you to launch EC2 instances and leverage other Amazon resources. The traffic that flows in and out of this VPC can be controlled via network access-control rules and security groups. Amazon also has a feature called VPC Flow Logs that enables you to log IP traffic going to and from the network interfaces in your VPC. This data is stored using Amazon CloudWatch Logs.\\\n Attackers may abuse the AWS infrastructure with insecure VPCs so they can co-opt AWS resources for command-and-control nodes, data exfiltration, and more. Once an EC2 instance is compromised, an attacker may initiate outbound network connections for malicious reasons. Monitoring these network traffic behaviors is crucial for understanding the type of traffic flowing in and out of your network and to alert you to suspicious activities.\\\nThe searches in this Analytic Story will monitor your AWS network traffic for evidence of anomalous activity and suspicious behaviors.", "references": ["https://rhinosecuritylabs.com/aws/hiding-cloudcobalt-strike-beacon-c2-using-amazon-apis/"], "tags": {"name": "Suspicious AWS Traffic", "analytic_story": "Suspicious AWS Traffic", "category": ["Cloud Security"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Security Monitoring", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [], "mitre_attack_tactics": [], "datamodels": [], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Command & Control"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Detect Spike in blocked Outbound Traffic from your AWS - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - AWS Investigate User Activities By ARN - Response Task", "ESCU - AWS Network ACL Details from ID - Response Task", "ESCU - AWS Network Interface details via resourceId - Response Task", "ESCU - Get All AWS Activity From IP Address - Response Task", "ESCU - Get DNS Server History for a host - Response Task", "ESCU - Get DNS traffic ratio - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Info - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Information For Port Activity - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Responsible For The DNS Traffic - Response Task"], "baseline_names": ["ESCU - Baseline of blocked outbound traffic from AWS"], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Bhavin Patel"}, {"name": "Suspicious Cloud Authentication Activities", "id": "6380ebbb-55c5-4fce-b754-01fd565fb73c", "version": 1, "date": "2020-06-04", "author": "Rico Valdez, Splunk", "description": "Monitor your cloud authentication events. Searches within this Analytic Story leverage the recent cloud updates to the Authentication data model to help you stay aware of and investigate suspicious login activity. ", "narrative": "It is important to monitor and control who has access to your cloud infrastructure. Detecting suspicious logins will provide good starting points for investigations. Abusive behaviors caused by compromised credentials can lead to direct monetary costs, as you will be billed for any compute activity whether legitimate or otherwise.\\\nThis Analytic Story has data model versions of cloud searches leveraging Authentication data, including those looking for suspicious login activity, and cross-account activity for AWS.", "references": ["https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/aws-cloudtrail-now-tracks-cross-account-activity-to-its-origin/", "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/cloudtrail-integration.html"], "tags": {"name": "Suspicious Cloud Authentication Activities", "analytic_story": "Suspicious Cloud Authentication Activities", "category": ["Cloud Security"], "product": ["Splunk Security Analytics for AWS", "Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Security Monitoring", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1535", "mitre_attack_technique": "Unused/Unsupported Cloud Regions", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "datamodels": ["Authentication"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - AWS Cross Account Activity From Previously Unseen Account - Rule", "ESCU - Detect AWS Console Login by New User - Rule", "ESCU - Detect AWS Console Login by User from New City - Rule", "ESCU - Detect AWS Console Login by User from New Country - Rule", "ESCU - Detect AWS Console Login by User from New Region - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task", "ESCU - Investigate AWS User Activities by user field - Response Task"], "baseline_names": ["ESCU - Previously Seen AWS Cross Account Activity - Initial", "ESCU - Previously Seen AWS Cross Account Activity - Update", "ESCU - Previously Seen Users in CloudTrail - Initial", "ESCU - Previously Seen Users In CloudTrail - Update"], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Rico Valdez"}, {"name": "Suspicious Cloud Instance Activities", "id": "8168ca88-392e-42f4-85a2-767579c660ce", "version": 1, "date": "2020-08-25", "author": "David Dorsey, Splunk", "description": "Monitor your cloud infrastructure provisioning activities for behaviors originating from unfamiliar or unusual locations. These behaviors may indicate that malicious activities are occurring somewhere within your cloud environment.", "narrative": "Monitoring your cloud infrastructure logs allows you enable governance, compliance, and risk auditing. It is crucial for a company to monitor events and actions taken in the their cloud environments to ensure that your instances are not vulnerable to attacks. This Analytic Story identifies suspicious activities in your cloud compute instances and helps you respond and investigate those activities.", "references": ["https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/aws-security-best-practices.pdf"], "tags": {"name": "Suspicious Cloud Instance Activities", "analytic_story": "Suspicious Cloud Instance Activities", "category": ["Cloud Security"], "product": ["Splunk Security Analytics for AWS", "Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Security Monitoring", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1078.004", "mitre_attack_technique": "Cloud Accounts", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Initial Access", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT33"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1078", "mitre_attack_technique": "Valid Accounts", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Initial Access", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT18", "APT28", "APT29", "APT33", "APT39", "APT41", "Carbanak", "Chimera", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN4", "FIN5", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "GALLIUM", "Leviathan", "Night Dragon", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "PittyTiger", "Sandworm Team", "Silence", "Silent Librarian", "Suckfly", "TEMP.Veles", "Threat Group-3390", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1537", "mitre_attack_technique": "Transfer Data to Cloud Account", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Exfiltration"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Exfiltration", "Initial Access", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "datamodels": ["Change"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Cloud Instance Modified By Previously Unseen User - Rule", "ESCU - Detect shared ec2 snapshot - Rule", "ESCU - Abnormally High Number Of Cloud Instances Destroyed - Rule", "ESCU - Abnormally High Number Of Cloud Instances Launched - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - AWS Investigate User Activities By ARN - Response Task", "ESCU - Get All AWS Activity From IP Address - Response Task"], "baseline_names": ["ESCU - Baseline Of Cloud Instances Destroyed", "ESCU - Baseline Of Cloud Instances Launched", "ESCU - Previously Seen Cloud Instance Modifications By User - Initial", "ESCU - Previously Seen Cloud Instance Modifications By User - Update"], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "David Dorsey"}, {"name": "Suspicious Cloud Provisioning Activities", "id": "51045ded-1575-4ba6-aef7-af6c73cffd86", "version": 1, "date": "2018-08-20", "author": "David Dorsey, Splunk", "description": "Monitor your cloud infrastructure provisioning activities for behaviors originating from unfamiliar or unusual locations. These behaviors may indicate that malicious activities are occurring somewhere within your cloud environment.", "narrative": "Because most enterprise cloud infrastructure activities originate from familiar geographic locations, monitoring for activity from unknown or unusual regions is an important security measure. This indicator can be especially useful in environments where it is impossible to add specific IPs to an allow list because they vary.\\\nThis Analytic Story was designed to provide you with flexibility in the precision you employ in specifying legitimate geographic regions. It can be as specific as an IP address or a city, or as broad as a region (think state) or an entire country. By determining how precise you want your geographical locations to be and monitoring for new locations that haven't previously accessed your environment, you can detect adversaries as they begin to probe your environment. Since there are legitimate reasons for activities from unfamiliar locations, this is not a standalone indicator. Nevertheless, location can be a relevant piece of information that you may wish to investigate further.", "references": ["https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/aws-security-best-practices.pdf"], "tags": {"name": "Suspicious Cloud Provisioning Activities", "analytic_story": "Suspicious Cloud Provisioning Activities", "category": ["Cloud Security"], "product": ["Splunk Security Analytics for AWS", "Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Security Monitoring", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1078", "mitre_attack_technique": "Valid Accounts", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Initial Access", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT18", "APT28", "APT29", "APT33", "APT39", "APT41", "Carbanak", "Chimera", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN4", "FIN5", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "GALLIUM", "Leviathan", "Night Dragon", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "PittyTiger", "Sandworm Team", "Silence", "Silent Librarian", "Suckfly", "TEMP.Veles", "Threat Group-3390", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Initial Access", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "datamodels": ["Change"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Cloud Provisioning Activity From Previously Unseen City - Rule", "ESCU - Cloud Provisioning Activity From Previously Unseen Country - Rule", "ESCU - Cloud Provisioning Activity From Previously Unseen IP Address - Rule", "ESCU - Cloud Provisioning Activity From Previously Unseen Region - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task"], "baseline_names": ["ESCU - Previously Seen Cloud Provisioning Activity Sources - Initial", "ESCU - Previously Seen Cloud Provisioning Activity Sources - Update"], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "David Dorsey"}, {"name": "Suspicious Cloud User Activities", "id": "1ed5ce7d-5469-4232-92af-89d1a3595b39", "version": 1, "date": "2020-09-04", "author": "David Dorsey, Splunk", "description": "Detect and investigate suspicious activities by users and roles in your cloud environments.", "narrative": "It seems obvious that it is critical to monitor and control the users who have access to your cloud infrastructure. Nevertheless, it's all too common for enterprises to lose track of ad-hoc accounts, leaving their servers vulnerable to attack. In fact, this was the very oversight that led to Tesla's cryptojacking attack in February, 2018.\\\nIn addition to compromising the security of your data, when bad actors leverage your compute resources, it can incur monumental costs, since you will be billed for any new instances and increased bandwidth usage.", "references": ["https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/aws-security-best-practices.pdf", "https://redlock.io/blog/cryptojacking-tesla"], "tags": {"name": "Suspicious Cloud User Activities", "analytic_story": "Suspicious Cloud User Activities", "category": ["Cloud Security"], "product": ["Splunk Security Analytics for AWS", "Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Security Monitoring", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1078.004", "mitre_attack_technique": "Cloud Accounts", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Initial Access", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT33"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1078", "mitre_attack_technique": "Valid Accounts", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Initial Access", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT18", "APT28", "APT29", "APT33", "APT39", "APT41", "Carbanak", "Chimera", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN4", "FIN5", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "GALLIUM", "Leviathan", "Night Dragon", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "PittyTiger", "Sandworm Team", "Silence", "Silent Librarian", "Suckfly", "TEMP.Veles", "Threat Group-3390", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1580", "mitre_attack_technique": "Cloud Infrastructure Discovery", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Discovery"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1204", "mitre_attack_technique": "User Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Discovery", "Execution", "Initial Access", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "datamodels": ["Change"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Reconnaissance"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Abnormally High Number Of Cloud Infrastructure API Calls - Rule", "ESCU - Abnormally High Number Of Cloud Security Group API Calls - Rule", "ESCU - AWS IAM AccessDenied Discovery Events - Rule", "ESCU - AWS Lambda UpdateFunctionCode - Rule", "ESCU - Cloud API Calls From Previously Unseen User Roles - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - AWS Investigate User Activities By ARN - Response Task"], "baseline_names": ["ESCU - Baseline Of Cloud Infrastructure API Calls Per User", "ESCU - Baseline Of Cloud Security Group API Calls Per User", "ESCU - Previously Seen Cloud API Calls Per User Role - Initial", "ESCU - Previously Seen Cloud API Calls Per User Role - Update"], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "David Dorsey"}, {"name": "Suspicious Command-Line Executions", "id": "f4368ddf-d59f-4192-84f6-778ac5a3ffc7", "version": 2, "date": "2020-02-03", "author": "Bhavin Patel, Splunk", "description": "Leveraging the Windows command-line interface (CLI) is one of the most common attack techniques--one that is also detailed in the MITRE ATT&CK framework. Use this Analytic Story to help you identify unusual or suspicious use of the CLI on Windows systems.", "narrative": "The ability to execute arbitrary commands via the Windows CLI is a primary goal for the adversary. With access to the shell, an attacker can easily run scripts and interact with the target system. Often, attackers may only have limited access to the shell or may obtain access in unusual ways. In addition, malware may execute and interact with the CLI in ways that would be considered unusual and inconsistent with typical user activity. This provides defenders with opportunities to identify suspicious use and investigate, as appropriate. This Analytic Story contains various searches to help identify this suspicious activity, as well as others to aid you in deeper investigation.", "references": ["https://attack.mitre.org/wiki/Technique/T1059", "https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/threats/macro-malware", "https://www.fireeye.com/content/dam/fireeye-www/services/pdfs/mandiant-apt1-report.pdf"], "tags": {"name": "Suspicious Command-Line Executions", "analytic_story": "Suspicious Command-Line Executions", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1059.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "PowerShell", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "CopyKittens", "DarkHydrus", "DarkVishnya", "Deep Panda", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "GOLD SOUTHFIELD", "Gallmaker", "Gorgon Group", "HAFNIUM", "Inception", "Indrik Spider", "Kimsuky", "Leviathan", "Magic Hound", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Poseidon Group", "Sandworm Team", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "Stealth Falcon", "TA459", "TA505", "TEMP.Veles", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Thrip", "Tonto Team", "Turla", "WIRTE", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1059.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Windows Command Shell", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT18", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT37", "APT38", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "Dark Caracal", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Higaisa", "Honeybee", "Indrik Spider", "Ke3chang", "Lazarus Group", "Machete", "Magic Hound", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Rancor", "Sandworm Team", "Silence", "Sowbug", "Suckfly", "TA505", "TA551", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-1314", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "Wizard Spider", "ZIRCONIUM", "admin@338", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1059", "mitre_attack_technique": "Command and Scripting Interpreter", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "APT37", "APT39", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN5", "FIN6", "FIN7", "Fox Kitten", "Ke3chang", "OilRig", "Stealth Falcon", "Whitefly", "Windigo"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1036", "mitre_attack_technique": "Masquerading", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT29", "APT32", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "PLATINUM", "TA551", "Windshift", "ZIRCONIUM", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1036.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Rename System Utilities", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "GALLIUM", "menuPass"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Execution"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Command & Control", "Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - First time seen command line argument - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Prohibited Applications Spawning cmd exe - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Use of cmd exe to Launch Script Interpreters - Rule", "ESCU - Potentially malicious code on commandline - Rule", "ESCU - System Processes Run From Unexpected Locations - Rule", "ESCU - Unusually Long Command Line - Rule", "ESCU - Unusually Long Command Line - MLTK - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Parent Process Info - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Info - Response Task"], "baseline_names": ["ESCU - Baseline of Command Line Length - MLTK", "ESCU - Previously seen command line arguments"], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Bhavin Patel"}, {"name": "Suspicious Compiled HTML Activity", "id": "a09db4d1-3827-4833-87b8-3a397e532119", "version": 1, "date": "2021-02-11", "author": "Michael Haag, Splunk", "description": "Monitor and detect techniques used by attackers who leverage the mshta.exe process to execute malicious code.", "narrative": "Adversaries may abuse Compiled HTML files (.chm) to conceal malicious code. CHM files are commonly distributed as part of the Microsoft HTML Help system. CHM files are compressed compilations of various content such as HTML documents, images, and scripting/web related programming languages such VBA, JScript, Java, and ActiveX. CHM content is displayed using underlying components of the Internet Explorer browser loaded by the HTML Help executable program (hh.exe). \\\nHH.exe relies upon hhctrl.ocx to load CHM topics.This will load upon execution of a chm file. \\\nDuring investigation, review all parallel processes and child processes. It is possible for file modification events to occur and it is best to capture the CHM file and decompile it for further analysis. \\\nUpon usage of InfoTech Storage Handlers, ms-its, its, mk, itss.dll will load.", "references": ["https://redcanary.com/blog/introducing-atomictestharnesses/", "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1218/001/", "https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/htmlhelp/nf-htmlhelp-htmlhelpa"], "tags": {"name": "Suspicious Compiled HTML Activity", "analytic_story": "Suspicious Compiled HTML Activity", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1218", "mitre_attack_technique": "Signed Binary Proxy Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1218.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Compiled HTML File", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT41", "Dark Caracal", "Lazarus Group", "OilRig", "Silence"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Detect HTML Help Renamed - Rule", "ESCU - Detect HTML Help Spawn Child Process - Rule", "ESCU - Detect HTML Help URL in Command Line - Rule", "ESCU - Detect HTML Help Using InfoTech Storage Handlers - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Michael Haag"}, {"name": "Suspicious DNS Traffic", "id": "3c3835c0-255d-4f9e-ab84-e29ec9ec9b56", "version": 1, "date": "2017-09-18", "author": "Rico Valdez, Splunk", "description": "Attackers often attempt to hide within or otherwise abuse the domain name system (DNS). You can thwart attempts to manipulate this omnipresent protocol by monitoring for these types of abuses.", "narrative": "Although DNS is one of the fundamental underlying protocols that make the Internet work, it is often ignored (perhaps because of its complexity and effectiveness).  However, attackers have discovered ways to abuse the protocol to meet their objectives. One potential abuse involves manipulating DNS to hijack traffic and redirect it to an IP address under the attacker's control. This could inadvertently send users intending to visit google.com, for example, to an unrelated malicious website. Another technique involves using the DNS protocol for command-and-control activities with the attacker's malicious code or to covertly exfiltrate data. The searches within this Analytic Story look for these types of abuses.", "references": ["http://blogs.splunk.com/2015/10/01/random-words-on-entropy-and-dns/", "http://www.darkreading.com/analytics/security-monitoring/got-malware-three-signs-revealed-in-dns-traffic/d/d-id/1139680", "https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/Threat-Vulnerability-Articles/What-are-suspicious-DNS-queries/ta-p/71454"], "tags": {"name": "Suspicious DNS Traffic", "analytic_story": "Suspicious DNS Traffic", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1048.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Exfiltration Over Unencrypted/Obfuscated Non-C2 Protocol", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Exfiltration"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "APT33", "FIN6", "FIN8", "Lazarus Group", "OilRig", "Thrip", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1071.004", "mitre_attack_technique": "DNS", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Command And Control"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT18", "APT39", "APT41", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "FIN7", "Ke3chang", "OilRig", "Tropic Trooper"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1048", "mitre_attack_technique": "Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Exfiltration"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1071", "mitre_attack_technique": "Application Layer Protocol", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Command And Control"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Dragonfly 2.0", "Magic Hound", "Rocke", "TeamTNT"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1189", "mitre_attack_technique": "Drive-by Compromise", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Initial Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "APT37", "APT38", "Andariel", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Dark Caracal", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Elderwood", "Lazarus Group", "Leafminer", "Leviathan", "Machete", "PLATINUM", "PROMETHIUM", "Patchwork", "RTM", "Threat Group-3390", "Transparent Tribe", "Turla", "Windigo", "Windshift"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Command And Control", "Exfiltration", "Initial Access"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint", "Network_Resolution"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Command & Control", "Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Clients Connecting to Multiple DNS Servers - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Long DNS TXT Record Response - Rule", "ESCU - Detection of DNS Tunnels - Rule", "ESCU - DNS Query Requests Resolved by Unauthorized DNS Servers - Rule", "ESCU - DNS Exfiltration Using Nslookup App - Rule", "ESCU - Excessive Usage of NSLOOKUP App - Rule", "ESCU - DNS Query Length Outliers - MLTK - Rule", "ESCU - Excessive DNS Failures - Rule", "ESCU - Detect hosts connecting to dynamic domain providers - Rule", "ESCU - DNS Query Length With High Standard Deviation - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get DNS Server History for a host - Response Task", "ESCU - Get DNS traffic ratio - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Parent Process Info - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Info - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Responsible For The DNS Traffic - Response Task"], "baseline_names": ["ESCU - Baseline of DNS Query Length - MLTK"], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Rico Valdez"}, {"name": "Suspicious Emails", "id": "2b1800dd-92f9-47ec-a981-fdf1351e5d55", "version": 1, "date": "2020-01-27", "author": "Bhavin Patel, Splunk", "description": "Email remains one of the primary means for attackers to gain an initial foothold within the modern enterprise. Detect and investigate suspicious emails in your environment with the help of the searches in this Analytic Story.", "narrative": "It is a common practice for attackers of all types to leverage targeted spearphishing campaigns and mass mailers to deliver weaponized email messages and attachments. Fortunately, there are a number of ways to monitor email data in Splunk to detect suspicious content.\\\nOnce a phishing message has been detected, the next steps are to answer the following questions: \\\n1. Which users have received this or a similar message in the past?\\\n1. When did the targeted campaign begin?\\\n1. Have any users interacted with the content of the messages (by downloading an attachment or clicking on a malicious URL)?This Analytic Story provides detection searches to identify suspicious emails, as well as contextual and investigative searches to help answer some of these questions.", "references": ["https://www.splunk.com/blog/2015/06/26/phishing-hits-a-new-level-of-quality/"], "tags": {"name": "Suspicious Emails", "analytic_story": "Suspicious Emails", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1566", "mitre_attack_technique": "Phishing", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Initial Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Dragonfly", "GOLD SOUTHFIELD"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1566.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Spearphishing Attachment", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Initial Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT-C-36", "APT1", "APT12", "APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT30", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "Ajax Security Team", "Andariel", "BRONZE BUTLER", "BlackTech", "Cobalt Group", "DarkHydrus", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Elderwood", "FIN4", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Ferocious Kitten", "Frankenstein", "Gallmaker", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Higaisa", "Inception", "IndigoZebra", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Leviathan", "Machete", "Mofang", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Naikon", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "PLATINUM", "Patchwork", "RTM", "Rancor", "Sandworm Team", "Sharpshooter", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "TA459", "TA505", "TA551", "The White Company", "Tonto Team", "Transparent Tribe", "Tropic Trooper", "Windshift", "Wizard Spider", "admin@338", "menuPass"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Initial Access"], "datamodels": ["Email", "UEBA"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Delivery"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Suspicious Email - UBA Anomaly - Rule", "ESCU - Email Attachments With Lots Of Spaces - Rule", "ESCU - Monitor Email For Brand Abuse - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious Email Attachment Extensions - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get Email Info - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Emails From Specific Sender - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task"], "baseline_names": ["ESCU - DNSTwist Domain Names"], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Bhavin Patel"}, {"name": "Suspicious GCP Storage Activities", "id": "4d656b2e-d6be-11ea-87d0-0242ac130003", "version": 1, "date": "2020-08-05", "author": "Shannon Davis, Splunk", "description": "Use the searches in this Analytic Story to monitor your GCP Storage buckets for evidence of anomalous activity and suspicious behaviors, such as detecting open storage buckets and buckets being accessed from a new IP. The contextual and investigative searches will give you more information, when required.", "narrative": "Similar to other cloud providers, GCP operates on a shared responsibility model. This means the end user, you, are responsible for setting appropriate access control lists and permissions on your GCP resources.\\ This Analytics Story concentrates on detecting things like open storage buckets (both read and write) along with storage bucket access from unfamiliar users and IP addresses.", "references": ["https://cloud.google.com/blog/product/gcp/4-steps-for-hardening-your-cloud-storage-buckets-taking-charge-of-your-security", "https://rhinosecuritylabs.com/gcp/google-cloud-platform-gcp-bucket-enumeration/"], "tags": {"name": "Suspicious GCP Storage Activities", "analytic_story": "Suspicious GCP Storage Activities", "category": ["Cloud Security"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Security Monitoring", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1530", "mitre_attack_technique": "Data from Cloud Storage Object", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Collection"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Fox Kitten"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Collection"], "datamodels": [], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Detect GCP Storage access from a new IP - Rule", "ESCU - Detect New Open GCP Storage Buckets - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task"], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Shannon Davis"}, {"name": "Suspicious MSHTA Activity", "id": "1e5a5a53-540b-462a-8fb7-f44a4292f5dc", "version": 2, "date": "2021-01-20", "author": "Bhavin Patel, Michael Haag, Splunk", "description": "Monitor and detect techniques used by attackers who leverage the mshta.exe process to execute malicious code.", "narrative": "One common adversary tactic is to bypass application control solutions via the mshta.exe process, which loads Microsoft HTML applications (mshtml.dll) with the .hta suffix. In these cases, attackers use the trusted Windows utility to proxy execution of malicious files, whether an .hta application, javascript, or VBScript.\\\nThe searches in this story help you detect and investigate suspicious activity that may indicate that an attacker is leveraging mshta.exe to execute malicious code.\\\nTriage\\\nValidate execution \\\n1. Determine if MSHTA.exe executed. Validate the OriginalFileName of MSHTA.exe and further PE metadata. If executed outside of c:\\windows\\system32 or c:\\windows\\syswow64, it should be highly suspect.\\\n1. Determine if script code was executed with MSHTA.\\\nSituational Awareness\\\nThe objective of this step is meant to identify suspicious behavioral indicators related to executed of Script code by MSHTA.exe.\\\n1. Parent process. Is the parent process a known LOLBin? Is the parent process an Office Application?\\\n1. Module loads. Are the known MSHTA.exe modules being loaded by a non-standard application? Is MSHTA loading any suspicious .DLLs?\\\n1. Network connections. Any network connections? Review the reputation of the remote IP or domain.\\\nRetrieval of script code\\\nThe objective of this step is to confirm the executed script code is benign or malicious.", "references": ["https://redcanary.com/blog/introducing-atomictestharnesses/", "https://redcanary.com/blog/windows-registry-attacks-threat-detection/", "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1218/005/", "https://medium.com/@mbromileyDFIR/malware-monday-aebb456356c5"], "tags": {"name": "Suspicious MSHTA Activity", "analytic_story": "Suspicious MSHTA Activity", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1218", "mitre_attack_technique": "Signed Binary Proxy Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1218.005", "mitre_attack_technique": "Mshta", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "FIN7", "Inception", "Kimsuky", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Sidewinder", "TA551"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1059", "mitre_attack_technique": "Command and Scripting Interpreter", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "APT37", "APT39", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN5", "FIN6", "FIN7", "Fox Kitten", "Ke3chang", "OilRig", "Stealth Falcon", "Whitefly", "Windigo"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1059.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Windows Command Shell", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT18", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT37", "APT38", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "Dark Caracal", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Higaisa", "Honeybee", "Indrik Spider", "Ke3chang", "Lazarus Group", "Machete", "Magic Hound", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Rancor", "Sandworm Team", "Silence", "Sowbug", "Suckfly", "TA505", "TA551", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-1314", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "Wizard Spider", "ZIRCONIUM", "admin@338", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1547.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT18", "APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Cobalt Group", "Dark Caracal", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Higaisa", "Honeybee", "Inception", "Ke3chang", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Leviathan", "Magic Hound", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Naikon", "PROMETHIUM", "Patchwork", "Putter Panda", "RTM", "Rocke", "Sharpshooter", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "Windshift", "Wizard Spider", "ZIRCONIUM"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1547", "mitre_attack_technique": "Boot or Logon Autostart Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Execution", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Detect mshta inline hta execution - Rule", "ESCU - Detect mshta renamed - Rule", "ESCU - Detect MSHTA Url in Command Line - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Prohibited Applications Spawning cmd exe - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Rundll32 Inline HTA Execution - Rule", "ESCU - Registry Keys Used For Persistence - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious mshta child process - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious mshta spawn - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Parent Process Info - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Info - Response Task"], "baseline_names": ["ESCU - Baseline of Command Line Length - MLTK", "ESCU - Previously seen command line arguments"], "author_company": "Michael Haag, Splunk", "author_name": "Bhavin Patel"}, {"name": "Suspicious Okta Activity", "id": "9cbd34af-8f39-4476-a423-bacd126c750b", "version": 1, "date": "2020-04-02", "author": "Rico Valdez, Splunk", "description": "Monitor your Okta environment for suspicious activities. Due to the Covid outbreak, many users are migrating over to leverage cloud services more and more. Okta is a popular tool to manage multiple users and the web-based applications they need to stay productive. The searches in this story will help monitor your Okta environment for suspicious activities and associated user behaviors.", "narrative": "Okta is the leading single sign on (SSO) provider, allowing users to authenticate once to Okta, and from there access a variety of web-based applications. These applications are assigned to users and allow administrators to centrally manage which users are allowed to access which applications. It also provides centralized logging to help understand how the applications are used and by whom. \\\nWhile SSO is a major convenience for users, it also provides attackers with an opportunity. If the attacker can gain access to Okta, they can access a variety of applications. As such monitoring the environment is important. \\\nWith people moving quickly to adopt web-based applications and ways to manage them, many are still struggling to understand how best to monitor these environments. This analytic story provides searches to help monitor this environment, and identify events and activity that warrant further investigation such as credential stuffing or password spraying attacks, and users logging in from multiple locations when travel is disallowed.", "references": ["https://attack.mitre.org/wiki/Technique/T1078", "https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Credential_stuffing", "https://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/answer/What-is-a-password-spraying-attack-and-how-does-it-work"], "tags": {"name": "Suspicious Okta Activity", "analytic_story": "Suspicious Okta Activity", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Security Monitoring", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1078", "mitre_attack_technique": "Valid Accounts", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Initial Access", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT18", "APT28", "APT29", "APT33", "APT39", "APT41", "Carbanak", "Chimera", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN4", "FIN5", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "GALLIUM", "Leviathan", "Night Dragon", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "PittyTiger", "Sandworm Team", "Silence", "Silent Librarian", "Suckfly", "TEMP.Veles", "Threat Group-3390", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1078.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Default Accounts", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Initial Access", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Initial Access", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "datamodels": [], "kill_chain_phases": ["Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Multiple Okta Users With Invalid Credentials From The Same IP - Rule", "ESCU - Okta Account Lockout Events - Rule", "ESCU - Okta Failed SSO Attempts - Rule", "ESCU - Okta User Logins From Multiple Cities - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Investigate Okta Activity by app - Response Task", "ESCU - Investigate Okta Activity by IP Address - Response Task", "ESCU - Investigate User Activities In Okta - Response Task"], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Rico Valdez"}, {"name": "Suspicious Regsvcs Regasm Activity", "id": "2cdf33a0-4805-4b61-b025-59c20f418fbe", "version": 1, "date": "2021-02-11", "author": "Michael Haag, Splunk", "description": "Monitor and detect techniques used by attackers who leverage the mshta.exe process to execute malicious code.", "narrative": " Adversaries may abuse Regsvcs and Regasm to proxy execution of code through a trusted Windows utility. Regsvcs and Regasm are Windows command-line utilities that are used to register .NET Component Object Model (COM) assemblies. Both are digitally signed by Microsoft. The following queries assist with detecting suspicious and malicious usage of Regasm.exe and Regsvcs.exe. Upon reviewing usage of Regasm.exe Regsvcs.exe, review file modification events for possible script code written. Review parallel process events for csc.exe being utilized to compile script code.", "references": ["https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1218/009/", "https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/documentation/modules/evasion/windows/applocker_evasion_regasm_regsvcs.md", "https://oddvar.moe/2017/12/13/applocker-case-study-how-insecure-is-it-really-part-1/"], "tags": {"name": "Suspicious Regsvcs Regasm Activity", "analytic_story": "Suspicious Regsvcs Regasm Activity", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1218", "mitre_attack_technique": "Signed Binary Proxy Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1218.009", "mitre_attack_technique": "Regsvcs/Regasm", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Detect Regasm Spawning a Process - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Regasm with Network Connection - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Regasm with no Command Line Arguments - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Regsvcs Spawning a Process - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Regsvcs with Network Connection - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Regsvcs with No Command Line Arguments - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Michael Haag"}, {"name": "Suspicious Regsvr32 Activity", "id": "b8bee41e-624f-11eb-ae93-0242ac130002", "version": 1, "date": "2021-01-29", "author": "Michael Haag, Splunk", "description": "Monitor and detect techniques used by attackers who leverage the regsvr32.exe process to execute malicious code.", "narrative": "One common adversary tactic is to bypass application control solutions via the regsvr32.exe process. This particular bypass was popularized with \"SquiblyDoo\" using the \"scrobj.dll\" dll to load .sct scriptlets. This technique is still widely used by adversaries to bypass detection and prevention controls. The file extension of the DLL is irrelevant (it may load a .txt file extension for example). The searches in this story help you detect and investigate suspicious activity that may indicate that an adversary is leveraging regsvr32.exe to execute malicious code. Validate execution Determine if regsvr32.exe executed. Validate the OriginalFileName of regsvr32.exe and further PE metadata. If executed outside of c:\\windows\\system32 or c:\\windows\\syswow64, it should be highly suspect. Determine if script code was executed with regsvr32. Situational Awareness - The objective of this step is meant to identify suspicious behavioral indicators related to executed of Script code by regsvr32.exe. Parent process. Is the parent process a known LOLBin? Is the parent process an Office Application? Module loads.  Is regsvr32 loading any suspicious .DLLs? Unsigned or signed from non-standard paths. Network connections. Any network connections? Review the reputation of the remote IP or domain. Retrieval of Script Code - confirm the executed script code is benign or malicious.", "references": ["https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1218/010/", "https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/master/atomics/T1218.010/T1218.010.md", "https://lolbas-project.github.io/lolbas/Binaries/Regsvr32/"], "tags": {"name": "Suspicious Regsvr32 Activity", "analytic_story": "Suspicious Regsvr32 Activity", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1218", "mitre_attack_technique": "Signed Binary Proxy Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1218.010", "mitre_attack_technique": "Regsvr32", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "Blue Mockingbird", "Cobalt Group", "Deep Panda", "Inception", "Leviathan", "TA551", "WIRTE"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1112", "mitre_attack_technique": "Modify Registry", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "APT38", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN8", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Honeybee", "Kimsuky", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Silence", "Threat Group-3390", "Turla", "Wizard Spider"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Detect Regsvr32 Application Control Bypass - Rule", "ESCU - Malicious InProcServer32 Modification - Rule", "ESCU - Regsvr32 Silent and Install Param Dll Loading - Rule", "ESCU - Regsvr32 with Known Silent Switch Cmdline - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious Regsvr32 Register Suspicious Path - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Michael Haag"}, {"name": "Suspicious Rundll32 Activity", "id": "80a65487-854b-42f1-80a1-935e4c170694", "version": 1, "date": "2021-02-03", "author": "Michael Haag, Splunk", "description": "Monitor and detect techniques used by attackers who leverage rundll32.exe to execute arbitrary malicious code.", "narrative": "One common adversary tactic is to bypass application control solutions via the rundll32.exe process. Natively, rundll32.exe will load DLLs and is a great example of a Living off the Land Binary. Rundll32.exe may load malicious DLLs by ordinals, function names or directly. The queries in this story focus on loading default DLLs, syssetup.dll, ieadvpack.dll, advpack.dll and setupapi.dll from disk that may be abused by adversaries. Additionally, two analytics developed to assist with identifying DLLRegisterServer, Start and StartW functions being called. The searches in this story help you detect and investigate suspicious activity that may indicate that an adversary is leveraging rundll32.exe to execute malicious code.", "references": ["https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1218/011/", "https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/master/atomics/T1218.011/T1218.011.md", "https://lolbas-project.github.io/lolbas/Binaries/Rundll32"], "tags": {"name": "Suspicious Rundll32 Activity", "analytic_story": "Suspicious Rundll32 Activity", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1218", "mitre_attack_technique": "Signed Binary Proxy Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1036", "mitre_attack_technique": "Masquerading", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT29", "APT32", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "PLATINUM", "TA551", "Windshift", "ZIRCONIUM", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1218.011", "mitre_attack_technique": "Rundll32", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT38", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Carbanak", "CopyKittens", "Gamaredon Group", "HAFNIUM", "MuddyWater", "Sandworm Team", "TA505", "TA551"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1036.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Rename System Utilities", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "GALLIUM", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1003.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "LSASS Memory", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT28", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Blue Mockingbird", "Cleaver", "FIN6", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "GALLIUM", "HAFNIUM", "Indrik Spider", "Ke3chang", "Kimsuky", "Leafminer", "Leviathan", "Magic Hound", "MuddyWater", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "PLATINUM", "Sandworm Team", "Silence", "TEMP.Veles", "Threat Group-3390", "Whitefly"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1003", "mitre_attack_technique": "OS Credential Dumping", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT32", "APT39", "Axiom", "Frankenstein", "Leviathan", "Poseidon Group", "Sowbug", "Suckfly", "Tonto Team"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access", "Defense Evasion"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Exploitation", "Installation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Suspicious Rundll32 Rename - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Rundll32 Application Control Bypass - advpack - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Rundll32 Application Control Bypass - setupapi - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Rundll32 Application Control Bypass - syssetup - Rule", "ESCU - Dump LSASS via comsvcs DLL - Rule", "ESCU - Rundll32 Control RunDLL Hunt - Rule", "ESCU - Rundll32 Control RunDLL World Writable Directory - Rule", "ESCU - Rundll32 with no Command Line Arguments with Network - Rule", "ESCU - RunDLL Loading DLL By Ordinal - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious Rundll32 dllregisterserver - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious Rundll32 StartW - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious Rundll32 no Command Line Arguments - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Michael Haag"}, {"name": "Suspicious Windows Registry Activities", "id": "2b1800dd-92f9-47dd-a981-fdf1351e5d55", "version": 1, "date": "2018-05-31", "author": "Bhavin Patel, Splunk", "description": "Monitor and detect registry changes initiated from remote locations, which can be a sign that an attacker has infiltrated your system.", "narrative": "Attackers are developing increasingly sophisticated techniques for hijacking target servers, while evading detection. One such technique that has become progressively more common is registry modification.\\\n The registry is a key component of the Windows operating system. It has a hierarchical database called \"registry\" that contains settings, options, and values for executables. Once the threat actor gains access to a machine, they can use reg.exe to modify their account to obtain administrator-level privileges, maintain persistence, and move laterally within the environment.\\\n The searches in this story are designed to help you detect behaviors associated with manipulation of the Windows registry.", "references": ["https://redcanary.com/blog/windows-registry-attacks-threat-detection/", "https://attack.mitre.org/wiki/Technique/T1112"], "tags": {"name": "Suspicious Windows Registry Activities", "analytic_story": "Suspicious Windows Registry Activities", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1564.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Hidden Files and Directories", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT32", "Lazarus Group", "Mustang Panda", "Rocke", "Transparent Tribe", "Tropic Trooper"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1546.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Change Default File Association", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Kimsuky"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1548.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Bypass User Account Control", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "APT37", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Cobalt Group", "Evilnum", "Honeybee", "MuddyWater", "Patchwork", "Threat Group-3390"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1548", "mitre_attack_technique": "Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1547.010", "mitre_attack_technique": "Port Monitors", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1547", "mitre_attack_technique": "Boot or Logon Autostart Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1546.011", "mitre_attack_technique": "Application Shimming", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["FIN7"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1546", "mitre_attack_technique": "Event Triggered Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1547.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT18", "APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Cobalt Group", "Dark Caracal", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Higaisa", "Honeybee", "Inception", "Ke3chang", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Leviathan", "Magic Hound", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Naikon", "PROMETHIUM", "Patchwork", "Putter Panda", "RTM", "Rocke", "Sharpshooter", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "Windshift", "Wizard Spider", "ZIRCONIUM"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1546.012", "mitre_attack_technique": "Image File Execution Options Injection", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["TEMP.Veles"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1574.011", "mitre_attack_technique": "Services Registry Permissions Weakness", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Reg exe used to hide files directories via registry keys - Rule", "ESCU - Remote Registry Key modifications - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious Changes to File Associations - Rule", "ESCU - Disable UAC Remote Restriction - Rule", "ESCU - Disabling Remote User Account Control - Rule", "ESCU - Monitor Registry Keys for Print Monitors - Rule", "ESCU - Registry Keys for Creating SHIM Databases - Rule", "ESCU - Registry Keys Used For Persistence - Rule", "ESCU - Registry Keys Used For Privilege Escalation - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Service Creation Using Registry Entry - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Parent Process Info - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Info - Response Task"], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Bhavin Patel"}, {"name": "Suspicious WMI Use", "id": "c8ddc5be-69bc-4202-b3ab-4010b27d7ad5", "version": 2, "date": "2018-10-23", "author": "Rico Valdez, Splunk", "description": "Attackers are increasingly abusing Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), a framework and associated utilities available on all modern Windows operating systems. Because WMI can be leveraged to manage both local and remote systems, it is important to identify the processes executed and the user context within which the activity occurred.", "narrative": "WMI is a Microsoft infrastructure for management data and operations on Windows operating systems. It includes of a set of utilities that can be leveraged to manage both local and remote Windows systems. Attackers are increasingly turning to WMI abuse in their efforts to conduct nefarious tasks, such as reconnaissance, detection of antivirus and virtual machines, code execution, lateral movement, persistence, and data exfiltration. The detection searches included in this Analytic Story are used to look for suspicious use of WMI commands that attackers may leverage to interact with remote systems. The searches specifically look for the use of WMI to run processes on remote systems. In the event that unauthorized WMI execution occurs, it will be important for analysts and investigators to determine the context of the event. These details may provide insights related to how WMI was used and to what end.", "references": ["https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-15/materials/us-15-Graeber-Abusing-Windows-Management-Instrumentation-WMI-To-Build-A-Persistent%20Asynchronous-And-Fileless-Backdoor-wp.pdf", "https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2017/03/wmimplant_a_wmi_ba.html"], "tags": {"name": "Suspicious WMI Use", "analytic_story": "Suspicious WMI Use", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1546.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Windows Management Instrumentation Event Subscription", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "APT33", "Blue Mockingbird", "FIN8", "Leviathan", "Mustang Panda", "Turla"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1546", "mitre_attack_technique": "Event Triggered Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1047", "mitre_attack_technique": "Windows Management Instrumentation", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "APT32", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Deep Panda", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "Indrik Spider", "Lazarus Group", "Leviathan", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Naikon", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Sandworm Team", "Stealth Falcon", "Threat Group-3390", "Windshift", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1220", "mitre_attack_technique": "XSL Script Processing", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Cobalt Group", "Higaisa"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Execution", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Detect WMI Event Subscription Persistence - Rule", "ESCU - Process Execution via WMI - Rule", "ESCU - Remote Process Instantiation via WMI - Rule", "ESCU - Remote WMI Command Attempt - Rule", "ESCU - Script Execution via WMI - Rule", "ESCU - Windows WMI Process Call Create - Rule", "ESCU - WMI Permanent Event Subscription - Sysmon - Rule", "ESCU - WMIC XSL Execution via URL - Rule", "ESCU - XSL Script Execution With WMIC - Rule", "ESCU - WMI Permanent Event Subscription - Rule", "ESCU - WMI Temporary Event Subscription - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Parent Process Info - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Info - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Sysmon WMI Activity for Host - Response Task"], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Rico Valdez"}, {"name": "Suspicious Zoom Child Processes", "id": "aa3749a6-49c7-491e-a03f-4eaee5fe0258", "version": 1, "date": "2020-04-13", "author": "David Dorsey, Splunk", "description": "Attackers are using Zoom as an vector to increase privileges on a sytems. This story detects new child processes of zoom and provides investigative actions for this detection.", "narrative": "Zoom is a leader in modern enterprise video communications and its usage has increased dramatically with a large amount of the population under stay-at-home orders due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With increased usage has come increased scrutiny and several security flaws have been found with this application on both Windows and macOS systems.\\\nCurrent detections focus on finding new child processes of this application on a per host basis. Investigative searches are included to gather information needed during an investigation.", "references": ["https://blog.rapid7.com/2020/04/02/dispelling-zoom-bugbears-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-latest-zoom-vulnerabilities/", "https://threatpost.com/two-zoom-zero-day-flaws-uncovered/154337/"], "tags": {"name": "Suspicious Zoom Child Processes", "analytic_story": "Suspicious Zoom Child Processes", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1059", "mitre_attack_technique": "Command and Scripting Interpreter", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "APT37", "APT39", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN5", "FIN6", "FIN7", "Fox Kitten", "Ke3chang", "OilRig", "Stealth Falcon", "Whitefly", "Windigo"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1059.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Windows Command Shell", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT18", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT37", "APT38", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "Dark Caracal", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Higaisa", "Honeybee", "Indrik Spider", "Ke3chang", "Lazarus Group", "Machete", "Magic Hound", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Rancor", "Sandworm Team", "Silence", "Sowbug", "Suckfly", "TA505", "TA551", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-1314", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "Wizard Spider", "ZIRCONIUM", "admin@338", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1068", "mitre_attack_technique": "Exploitation for Privilege Escalation", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT32", "APT33", "Cobalt Group", "FIN6", "FIN8", "PLATINUM", "Threat Group-3390", "Tonto Team", "Turla", "Whitefly", "ZIRCONIUM"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution", "Privilege Escalation"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Detect Prohibited Applications Spawning cmd exe - Rule", "ESCU - First Time Seen Child Process of Zoom - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get Process File Activity - Response Task"], "baseline_names": ["ESCU - Previously Seen Zoom Child Processes - Initial", "ESCU - Previously Seen Zoom Child Processes - Update"], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "David Dorsey"}, {"name": "Trickbot", "id": "16f93769-8342-44c0-9b1d-f131937cce8e", "version": 1, "date": "2021-04-20", "author": "Rod Soto, Teoderick Contreras, Splunk", "description": "Leverage searches that allow you to detect and investigate unusual activities that might relate to the trickbot banking trojan, including looking for file writes associated with its payload, process injection, shellcode execution and data collection even in LDAP environment.", "narrative": "trickbot banking trojan campaigns targeting banks and other vertical sectors.This malware is known in Microsoft Windows OS where target security Microsoft Defender to prevent its detection and removal. steal Verizon credentials and targeting banks using its multi component modules that collect and exfiltrate data.", "references": ["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickbot", "https://blog.checkpoint.com/2021/03/11/february-2021s-most-wanted-malware-trickbot-takes-over-following-emotet-shutdown/"], "tags": {"name": "Trickbot", "analytic_story": "Trickbot", "category": ["Malware"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1087.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Domain Account", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Discovery"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["BRONZE BUTLER", "Chimera", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN6", "Fox Kitten", "Ke3chang", "MuddyWater", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Poseidon Group", "Sandworm Team", "Turla", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1087", "mitre_attack_technique": "Account Discovery", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Discovery"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1562.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Disable or Modify Tools", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "BRONZE BUTLER", "FIN6", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Indrik Spider", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "MuddyWater", "Night Dragon", "Putter Panda", "Rocke", "TeamTNT", "Turla", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1562", "mitre_attack_technique": "Impair Defenses", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1055", "mitre_attack_technique": "Process Injection", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "APT37", "APT41", "Cobalt Group", "Honeybee", "Kimsuky", "Operation Wocao", "PLATINUM", "Sharpshooter", "Silence", "Turla"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1021", "mitre_attack_technique": "Remote Services", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Lateral Movement"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1021.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "SMB/Windows Admin Shares", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Lateral Movement"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT3", "APT32", "APT39", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Deep Panda", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Ke3chang", "Lazarus Group", "Operation Wocao", "Orangeworm", "Sandworm Team", "Threat Group-1314", "Turla", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1218", "mitre_attack_technique": "Signed Binary Proxy Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1218.005", "mitre_attack_technique": "Mshta", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "FIN7", "Inception", "Kimsuky", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Sidewinder", "TA551"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1566", "mitre_attack_technique": "Phishing", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Initial Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Dragonfly", "GOLD SOUTHFIELD"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1566.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Spearphishing Attachment", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Initial Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT-C-36", "APT1", "APT12", "APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT30", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "Ajax Security Team", "Andariel", "BRONZE BUTLER", "BlackTech", "Cobalt Group", "DarkHydrus", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Elderwood", "FIN4", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Ferocious Kitten", "Frankenstein", "Gallmaker", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Higaisa", "Inception", "IndigoZebra", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Leviathan", "Machete", "Mofang", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Naikon", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "PLATINUM", "Patchwork", "RTM", "Rancor", "Sandworm Team", "Sharpshooter", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "TA459", "TA505", "TA551", "The White Company", "Tonto Team", "Transparent Tribe", "Tropic Trooper", "Windshift", "Wizard Spider", "admin@338", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1053", "mitre_attack_technique": "Scheduled Task/Job", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1218.011", "mitre_attack_technique": "Rundll32", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT38", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Carbanak", "CopyKittens", "Gamaredon Group", "HAFNIUM", "MuddyWater", "Sandworm Team", "TA505", "TA551"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1590", "mitre_attack_technique": "Gather Victim Network Information", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Reconnaissance"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["HAFNIUM"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1590.005", "mitre_attack_technique": "IP Addresses", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Reconnaissance"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Andariel", "HAFNIUM"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1027", "mitre_attack_technique": "Obfuscated Files or Information", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT-C-36", "APT18", "APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT39", "APT41", "BackdoorDiplomacy", "BlackOasis", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "Dark Caracal", "Darkhotel", "Dust Storm", "Elderwood", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "GOLD SOUTHFIELD", "Gallmaker", "Gamaredon Group", "Group5", "Higaisa", "Honeybee", "Inception", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Leafminer", "Leviathan", "Magic Hound", "Mofang", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Night Dragon", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Putter Panda", "Rocke", "Sandworm Team", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "TA505", "TA551", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Transparent Tribe", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "Whitefly", "Windshift", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1059", "mitre_attack_technique": "Command and Scripting Interpreter", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "APT37", "APT39", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN5", "FIN6", "FIN7", "Fox Kitten", "Ke3chang", "OilRig", "Stealth Falcon", "Whitefly", "Windigo"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Discovery", "Execution", "Initial Access", "Lateral Movement", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation", "Reconnaissance"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Exploitation", "Installation", "Reconnaissance"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Account Discovery With Net App - Rule", "ESCU - Attempt To Stop Security Service - Rule", "ESCU - Cobalt Strike Named Pipes - Rule", "ESCU - Executable File Written in Administrative SMB Share - Rule", "ESCU - Mshta spawning Rundll32 OR Regsvr32 Process - Rule", "ESCU - Office Application Spawn rundll32 process - Rule", "ESCU - Office Document Executing Macro Code - Rule", "ESCU - Office Product Spawn CMD Process - Rule", "ESCU - Powershell Remote Thread To Known Windows Process - Rule", "ESCU - Schedule Task with Rundll32 Command Trigger - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious Rundll32 StartW - Rule", "ESCU - Trickbot Named Pipe - Rule", "ESCU - Wermgr Process Connecting To IP Check Web Services - Rule", "ESCU - Wermgr Process Create Executable File - Rule", "ESCU - Wermgr Process Spawned CMD Or Powershell Process - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Teoderick Contreras, Splunk", "author_name": "Rod Soto"}, {"name": "Trusted Developer Utilities Proxy Execution", "id": "270a67a6-55d8-11eb-ae93-0242ac130002", "version": 1, "date": "2021-01-12", "author": "Michael Haag, Splunk", "description": "Monitor and detect behaviors used by attackers who leverage trusted developer utilities to execute malicious code.", "narrative": "Adversaries may take advantage of trusted developer utilities to proxy execution of malicious payloads. There are many utilities used for software development related tasks that can be used to execute code in various forms to assist in development, debugging, and reverse engineering. These utilities may often be signed with legitimate certificates that allow them to execute on a system and proxy execution of malicious code through a trusted process that effectively bypasses application control solutions.\\\nThe searches in this story help you detect and investigate suspicious activity that may indicate that an adversary is leveraging microsoft.workflow.compiler.exe to execute malicious code.", "references": ["https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1127/", "https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/master/atomics/T1218/T1218.md", "https://lolbas-project.github.io/lolbas/Binaries/Microsoft.Workflow.Compiler/"], "tags": {"name": "Trusted Developer Utilities Proxy Execution", "analytic_story": "Trusted Developer Utilities Proxy Execution", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1036", "mitre_attack_technique": "Masquerading", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT29", "APT32", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "PLATINUM", "TA551", "Windshift", "ZIRCONIUM", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1127", "mitre_attack_technique": "Trusted Developer Utilities Proxy Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1036.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Rename System Utilities", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "GALLIUM", "menuPass"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Suspicious microsoft workflow compiler rename - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious microsoft workflow compiler usage - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Michael Haag"}, {"name": "Trusted Developer Utilities Proxy Execution MSBuild", "id": "be3418e2-551b-11eb-ae93-0242ac130002", "version": 1, "date": "2021-01-21", "author": "Michael Haag, Splunk", "description": "Monitor and detect techniques used by attackers who leverage the msbuild.exe process to execute malicious code.", "narrative": "Adversaries may use MSBuild to proxy execution of code through a trusted Windows utility. MSBuild.exe (Microsoft Build Engine) is a software build platform used by Visual Studio and is native to Windows. It handles XML formatted project files that define requirements for loading and building various platforms and configurations.\\\nThe inline task capability of MSBuild that was introduced in .NET version 4 allows for C# code to be inserted into an XML project file. MSBuild will compile and execute the inline task. MSBuild.exe is a signed Microsoft binary, so when it is used this way it can execute arbitrary code and bypass application control defenses that are configured to allow MSBuild.exe execution.\\\nThe searches in this story help you detect and investigate suspicious activity that may indicate that an adversary is leveraging msbuild.exe to execute malicious code.\\\nTriage\\\nValidate execution\\\n1. Determine if MSBuild.exe executed. Validate the OriginalFileName of MSBuild.exe and further PE metadata.\\\n1. Determine if script code was executed with MSBuild.\\\nSituational Awareness\\\nThe objective of this step is meant to identify suspicious behavioral indicators related to executed of Script code by MSBuild.exe.\\\n1. Parent process. Is the parent process a known LOLBin? Is the parent process an Office Application?\\\n1. Module loads. Are the known MSBuild.exe modules being loaded by a non-standard application? Is MSbuild loading any suspicious .DLLs?\\\n1. Network connections. Any network connections? Review the reputation of the remote IP or domain.\\\nRetrieval of script code\\\nThe objective of this step is to confirm the executed script code is benign or malicious.", "references": ["https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1127/001/", "https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/master/atomics/T1127.001/T1127.001.md", "https://github.com/infosecn1nja/MaliciousMacroMSBuild", "https://github.com/xorrior/RandomPS-Scripts/blob/master/Invoke-ExecuteMSBuild.ps1", "https://lolbas-project.github.io/lolbas/Binaries/Msbuild/", "https://github.com/MHaggis/CBR-Queries/blob/master/msbuild.md"], "tags": {"name": "Trusted Developer Utilities Proxy Execution MSBuild", "analytic_story": "Trusted Developer Utilities Proxy Execution MSBuild", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1127.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "MSBuild", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Frankenstein"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1127", "mitre_attack_technique": "Trusted Developer Utilities Proxy Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1036", "mitre_attack_technique": "Masquerading", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT29", "APT32", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "PLATINUM", "TA551", "Windshift", "ZIRCONIUM", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1036.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Rename System Utilities", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "GALLIUM", "menuPass"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - MSBuild Suspicious Spawned By Script Process - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious msbuild path - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious MSBuild Rename - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious MSBuild Spawn - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Michael Haag"}, {"name": "Unusual Processes", "id": "f4368e3f-d59f-4192-84f6-748ac5a3ddb6", "version": 2, "date": "2020-02-04", "author": "Bhavin Patel, Splunk", "description": "Quickly identify systems running new or unusual processes in your environment that could be indicators of suspicious activity. Processes run from unusual locations, those with conspicuously long command lines, and rare executables are all examples of activities that may warrant deeper investigation.", "narrative": "Being able to profile a host's processes within your environment can help you more quickly identify processes that seem out of place when compared to the rest of the population of hosts or asset types.\\\nThis Analytic Story lets you identify processes that are either a) not typically seen running or b) have some sort of suspicious command-line arguments associated with them. This Analytic Story will also help you identify the user running these processes and the associated process activity on the host.\\\nIn the event an unusual process is identified, it is imperative to better understand how that process was able to execute on the host, when it first executed, and whether other hosts are affected. This extra information may provide clues that can help the analyst further investigate any suspicious activity.", "references": ["https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2017/08/monitoring-windows-console-activity-part-two.html", "https://www.splunk.com/pdfs/technical-briefs/advanced-threat-detection-and-response-tech-brief.pdf", "https://www.sans.org/reading-room/whitepapers/logging/detecting-security-incidents-windows-workstation-event-logs-34262"], "tags": {"name": "Unusual Processes", "analytic_story": "Unusual Processes", "category": ["Malware"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1204.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Malicious File", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT-C-36", "APT12", "APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT30", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT38", "APT39", "Ajax Security Team", "Andariel", "BRONZE BUTLER", "BlackTech", "Cobalt Group", "Dark Caracal", "DarkHydrus", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Elderwood", "FIN4", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Ferocious Kitten", "Frankenstein", "Gallmaker", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Higaisa", "Inception", "IndigoZebra", "Indrik Spider", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Leviathan", "Machete", "Magic Hound", "Mofang", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Naikon", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "PLATINUM", "PROMETHIUM", "Patchwork", "RTM", "Rancor", "Sandworm Team", "Sharpshooter", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "TA459", "TA505", "TA551", "The White Company", "Tonto Team", "Transparent Tribe", "Tropic Trooper", "Whitefly", "Windshift", "Wizard Spider", "admin@338", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1036.005", "mitre_attack_technique": "Match Legitimate Name or Location", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT28", "APT29", "APT32", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "BackdoorDiplomacy", "Blue 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Scanning", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Reconnaissance"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1016", "mitre_attack_technique": "System Network Configuration Discovery", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Discovery"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT19", "APT3", "APT32", "APT41", "Chimera", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "Higaisa", "Ke3chang", "Lazarus Group", "Magic Hound", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Naikon", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Sandworm Team", "Sidewinder", "Stealth Falcon", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "Wizard Spider", "ZIRCONIUM", "admin@338", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1112", "mitre_attack_technique": "Modify Registry", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "APT38", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN8", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Honeybee", "Kimsuky", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Silence", "Threat Group-3390", "Turla", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1218", "mitre_attack_technique": "Signed Binary Proxy Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1218.011", "mitre_attack_technique": "Rundll32", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT38", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Carbanak", "CopyKittens", "Gamaredon Group", "HAFNIUM", "MuddyWater", "Sandworm Team", "TA505", "TA551"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1036.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Rename System Utilities", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "GALLIUM", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1218.012", "mitre_attack_technique": "Verclsid", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1218.004", "mitre_attack_technique": "InstallUtil", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Mustang Panda", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1588.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Tool", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Resource Development"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT-C-36", "APT1", "APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT32", "APT33", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "BackdoorDiplomacy", "Blue Mockingbird", "Carbanak", "Chimera", "Cleaver", "Cobalt Group", "CopyKittens", "CostaRicto", "DarkHydrus", "DarkVishnya", "Dragonfly", "FIN10", "FIN5", "FIN6", "Ferocious Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "Gorgon Group", "Inception", "IndigoZebra", "Ke3chang", "Kimsuky", "Leafminer", "Magic Hound", "MuddyWater", "Night Dragon", "Patchwork", "PittyTiger", "Sandworm Team", "Silence", "Silent Librarian", "TEMP.Veles", "Threat Group-3390", "Thrip", "Turla", "WIRTE", "Whitefly", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1055", "mitre_attack_technique": "Process Injection", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "APT37", "APT41", "Cobalt Group", "Honeybee", "Kimsuky", "Operation Wocao", "PLATINUM", "Sharpshooter", "Silence", "Turla"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1543", "mitre_attack_technique": "Create or Modify System Process", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1134.004", "mitre_attack_technique": "Parent PID Spoofing", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1134", "mitre_attack_technique": "Access Token Manipulation", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Blue Mockingbird", "FIN6"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1190", "mitre_attack_technique": "Exploit Public-Facing Application", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Initial Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT29", "APT39", "APT41", "Axiom", "BackdoorDiplomacy", "BlackTech", "Blue Mockingbird", "Fox Kitten", "GALLIUM", "GOLD SOUTHFIELD", "Night Dragon", "Operation Wocao", "Rocke", "Volatile Cedar", "menuPass"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access", "Defense Evasion", "Discovery", "Execution", "Initial Access", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation", "Reconnaissance", "Resource Development"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Command & Control", "Exploitation", "Installation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Uncommon Processes On Endpoint - Rule", "ESCU - Attacker Tools On Endpoint - Rule", "ESCU - Detect processes used for System Network Configuration Discovery - Rule", "ESCU - Rundll32 Shimcache Flush - Rule", "ESCU - RunDLL Loading DLL By Ordinal - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious Copy on System32 - Rule", "ESCU - System Processes Run From Unexpected Locations - Rule", "ESCU - Verclsid CLSID Execution - Rule", "ESCU - Windows DotNet Binary in Non Standard Path - Rule", "ESCU - Windows InstallUtil in Non Standard Path - Rule", "ESCU - Windows NirSoft AdvancedRun - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Remote Assistance Spawning Process - Rule", "ESCU - Wscript Or Cscript Suspicious Child Process - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Rare Executables - Rule", "ESCU - Unusually Long Command Line - Rule", "ESCU - Unusually Long Command Line - MLTK - Rule", "ESCU - WinRM Spawning a Process - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Parent Process Info - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Info - Response Task"], "baseline_names": ["ESCU - Baseline of Command Line Length - MLTK"], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Bhavin Patel"}, {"name": "Use of Cleartext Protocols", "id": "826e6431-aeef-41b4-9fc0-6d0985d65a21", "version": 1, "date": "2017-09-15", "author": "Bhavin Patel, Splunk", "description": "Leverage searches that detect cleartext network protocols that may leak credentials or should otherwise be encrypted.", "narrative": "Various legacy protocols operate by default in the clear, without the protections of encryption. This potentially leaks sensitive information that can be exploited by passively sniffing network traffic. Depending on the protocol, this information could be highly sensitive, or could allow for session hijacking. In addition, these protocols send authentication information, which would allow for the harvesting of usernames and passwords that could potentially be used to authenticate and compromise secondary systems.", "references": ["https://www.monkey.org/~dugsong/dsniff/"], "tags": {"name": "Use of Cleartext Protocols", "analytic_story": "Use of Cleartext Protocols", "category": ["Best Practices"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Security Monitoring", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [], "mitre_attack_tactics": [], "datamodels": ["Network_Traffic"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Reconnaissance"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Protocols passing authentication in cleartext - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Information For Port Activity - Response Task"], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Bhavin Patel"}, {"name": "WhisperGate", "id": "0150e6e5-3171-442e-83f8-1ccd8599569b", "version": 1, "date": "2022-01-19", "author": "Teoderick Contreras, Splunk", "description": "This analytic story contains detections that allow security analysts to detect and investigate unusual activities that might relate to the destructive malware targeting Ukrainian organizations also known as \"WhisperGate\". This analytic story looks for suspicious process execution, command-line activity, downloads, DNS queries and more.", "narrative": "WhisperGate/DEV-0586 is destructive malware operation found by MSTIC (Microsoft Threat Inteligence Center) targeting multiple organizations in Ukraine. This operation campaign consist of several malware component like the downloader that abuses discord platform, overwrite or destroy master boot record (MBR) of the targeted host, wiper and also windows defender evasion techniques.", "references": ["https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2022/01/15/destructive-malware-targeting-ukrainian-organizations/", "https://medium.com/s2wblog/analysis-of-destructive-malware-whispergate-targeting-ukraine-9d5d158f19f3"], "tags": {"name": "WhisperGate", "analytic_story": "WhisperGate", "category": ["Data Destruction", "Malware", "Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1562.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Disable or Modify Tools", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "BRONZE BUTLER", "FIN6", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Indrik Spider", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "MuddyWater", "Night Dragon", "Putter Panda", "Rocke", "TeamTNT", "Turla", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1562", "mitre_attack_technique": "Impair Defenses", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1059.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Windows Command Shell", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT18", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT37", "APT38", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "Dark Caracal", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Higaisa", "Honeybee", "Indrik Spider", "Ke3chang", "Lazarus Group", "Machete", "Magic Hound", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Rancor", "Sandworm Team", "Silence", "Sowbug", "Suckfly", "TA505", "TA551", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-1314", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "Wizard Spider", "ZIRCONIUM", "admin@338", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1059", "mitre_attack_technique": "Command and Scripting Interpreter", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "APT37", "APT39", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN5", "FIN6", "FIN7", "Fox Kitten", "Ke3chang", "OilRig", "Stealth Falcon", "Whitefly", "Windigo"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1485", "mitre_attack_technique": "Data Destruction", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Impact"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT38", "Lazarus Group", "Sandworm Team"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1036", "mitre_attack_technique": "Masquerading", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT29", "APT32", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "PLATINUM", "TA551", "Windshift", "ZIRCONIUM", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1021", "mitre_attack_technique": "Remote Services", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Lateral 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["APT29"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1059.005", "mitre_attack_technique": "Visual Basic", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT-C-36", "APT29", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT38", "APT39", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Cobalt Group", "FIN4", "FIN7", "Frankenstein", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Higaisa", "Honeybee", "Inception", "Kimsuky", "Leviathan", "Machete", "Magic Hound", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Rancor", "Sandworm Team", "Sharpshooter", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "TA459", "TA505", "Transparent Tribe", "Turla", "WIRTE", "Windshift"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1543", "mitre_attack_technique": "Create or Modify System Process", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1036.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Rename System Utilities", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "GALLIUM", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1218", "mitre_attack_technique": "Signed Binary Proxy Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1218.004", "mitre_attack_technique": "InstallUtil", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Mustang Panda", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1588.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Tool", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Resource Development"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT-C-36", "APT1", "APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT32", "APT33", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "BackdoorDiplomacy", "Blue Mockingbird", "Carbanak", "Chimera", "Cleaver", "Cobalt Group", "CopyKittens", "CostaRicto", "DarkHydrus", "DarkVishnya", "Dragonfly", "FIN10", "FIN5", "FIN6", "Ferocious Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "Gorgon Group", "Inception", "IndigoZebra", "Ke3chang", "Kimsuky", "Leafminer", "Magic Hound", "MuddyWater", "Night Dragon", "Patchwork", "PittyTiger", "Sandworm Team", "Silence", "Silent Librarian", "TEMP.Veles", "Threat Group-3390", "Thrip", "Turla", "WIRTE", "Whitefly", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1561.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Disk Structure Wipe", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Impact"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT37", "APT38", "Lazarus Group", "Sandworm Team"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1561", "mitre_attack_technique": "Disk Wipe", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Impact"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1055", "mitre_attack_technique": "Process Injection", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "APT37", "APT41", "Cobalt Group", "Honeybee", "Kimsuky", "Operation Wocao", "PLATINUM", "Sharpshooter", "Silence", "Turla"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1134.004", "mitre_attack_technique": "Parent PID Spoofing", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1134", "mitre_attack_technique": "Access Token Manipulation", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Blue Mockingbird", "FIN6"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Discovery", "Execution", "Impact", "Lateral Movement", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation", "Resource Development"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Command & Control", "Exploitation", "Installation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Add or Set Windows Defender Exclusion - Rule", "ESCU - Attempt To Stop Security Service - Rule", "ESCU - CMD Carry Out String Command Parameter - Rule", "ESCU - Excessive File Deletion In WinDefender Folder - Rule", "ESCU - Executables Or Script Creation In Suspicious Path - Rule", "ESCU - Impacket Lateral Movement Commandline Parameters - Rule", "ESCU - Malicious PowerShell Process - Encoded Command - Rule", "ESCU - Ping Sleep Batch Command - Rule", "ESCU - Powershell Remove Windows Defender Directory - Rule", "ESCU - Powershell Windows Defender Exclusion Commands - Rule", "ESCU - Process Deleting Its Process File Path - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious Process DNS Query Known Abuse Web Services - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious Process File Path - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious Process With Discord DNS Query - Rule", "ESCU - Windows DotNet Binary in Non Standard Path - Rule", "ESCU - Windows High File Deletion Frequency - Rule", "ESCU - Windows InstallUtil in Non Standard Path - Rule", "ESCU - Windows NirSoft AdvancedRun - Rule", "ESCU - Windows NirSoft Utilities - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Raw Access To Master Boot Record Drive - Rule", "ESCU - Wscript Or Cscript Suspicious Child Process - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Teoderick Contreras"}, {"name": "Windows Defense Evasion Tactics", "id": "56e24a28-5003-4047-b2db-e8f3c4618064", "version": 1, "date": "2018-05-31", "author": "David Dorsey, Splunk", "description": "Detect tactics used by malware to evade defenses on Windows endpoints. A few of these include suspicious `reg.exe` processes, files hidden with `attrib.exe` and disabling user-account control, among many others ", "narrative": "Defense evasion is a tactic--identified in the MITRE ATT&CK framework--that adversaries employ in a variety of ways to bypass or defeat defensive security measures. There are many techniques enumerated by the MITRE ATT&CK framework that are applicable in this context. This Analytic Story includes searches designed to identify the use of such techniques on Windows platforms.", "references": ["https://attack.mitre.org/wiki/Defense_Evasion"], "tags": {"name": "Windows Defense Evasion Tactics", "analytic_story": "Windows Defense Evasion Tactics", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1564.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Hidden Files and Directories", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT32", "Lazarus Group", "Mustang Panda", "Rocke", "Transparent Tribe", "Tropic Trooper"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1562.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Disable or Modify Tools", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "BRONZE BUTLER", "FIN6", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Indrik Spider", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "MuddyWater", "Night Dragon", "Putter Panda", "Rocke", "TeamTNT", "Turla", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1562", "mitre_attack_technique": "Impair Defenses", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1027.004", "mitre_attack_technique": "Compile After Delivery", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Gamaredon Group", "MuddyWater", "Rocke"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1027", "mitre_attack_technique": "Obfuscated Files or Information", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT-C-36", "APT18", "APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT39", "APT41", "BackdoorDiplomacy", "BlackOasis", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "Dark Caracal", "Darkhotel", "Dust Storm", "Elderwood", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "GOLD SOUTHFIELD", "Gallmaker", "Gamaredon Group", "Group5", "Higaisa", "Honeybee", "Inception", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Leafminer", "Leviathan", "Magic Hound", "Mofang", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Night Dragon", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Putter Panda", "Rocke", "Sandworm Team", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "TA505", "TA551", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Transparent Tribe", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "Whitefly", "Windshift", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1112", "mitre_attack_technique": "Modify Registry", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT32", "APT38", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN8", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Honeybee", "Kimsuky", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Silence", "Threat Group-3390", "Turla", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1564", "mitre_attack_technique": "Hide Artifacts", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1548.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Bypass User Account Control", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "APT37", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Cobalt Group", "Evilnum", "Honeybee", "MuddyWater", "Patchwork", "Threat Group-3390"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1548", "mitre_attack_technique": "Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1490", "mitre_attack_technique": "Inhibit System Recovery", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Impact"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1562.004", "mitre_attack_technique": "Disable or Modify System Firewall", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "APT38", "Carbanak", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Operation Wocao", "Rocke", "TeamTNT"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1222", "mitre_attack_technique": "File and Directory Permissions Modification", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1222.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Windows File and Directory Permissions Modification", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1055", "mitre_attack_technique": "Process Injection", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "APT37", "APT41", "Cobalt Group", "Honeybee", "Kimsuky", "Operation Wocao", "PLATINUM", "Sharpshooter", "Silence", "Turla"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1055.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Dynamic-link Library Injection", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["BackdoorDiplomacy", "Lazarus Group", "Leviathan", "Putter Panda", "TA505", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1218", "mitre_attack_technique": "Signed Binary Proxy Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Impact", "Privilege Escalation"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Delivery", "Exploitation", "Reconnaissance"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Reg exe used to hide files directories via registry keys - Rule", "ESCU - Remote Registry Key modifications - Rule", "ESCU - Add or Set Windows Defender Exclusion - Rule", "ESCU - CSC Net On The Fly Compilation - Rule", "ESCU - Disable Registry Tool - Rule", "ESCU - Disable Security Logs Using MiniNt Registry - Rule", "ESCU - Disable Show Hidden Files - Rule", "ESCU - Disable UAC Remote Restriction - Rule", "ESCU - Disable Windows Behavior Monitoring - Rule", "ESCU - Disable Windows SmartScreen Protection - Rule", "ESCU - Disabling CMD Application - Rule", "ESCU - Disabling ControlPanel - Rule", "ESCU - Disabling Firewall with Netsh - Rule", "ESCU - Disabling FolderOptions Windows Feature - Rule", "ESCU - Disabling NoRun Windows App - Rule", "ESCU - Disabling Remote User Account Control - Rule", "ESCU - Disabling SystemRestore In Registry - Rule", "ESCU - Disabling Task Manager - Rule", "ESCU - Eventvwr UAC Bypass - Rule", "ESCU - Excessive number of service control start as disabled - Rule", "ESCU - Firewall Allowed Program Enable - Rule", "ESCU - FodHelper UAC Bypass - Rule", "ESCU - Hiding Files And Directories With Attrib exe - Rule", "ESCU - NET Profiler UAC bypass - Rule", "ESCU - Powershell Windows Defender Exclusion Commands - Rule", "ESCU - Sdclt UAC Bypass - Rule", "ESCU - SilentCleanup UAC Bypass - Rule", "ESCU - SLUI RunAs Elevated - Rule", "ESCU - SLUI Spawning a Process - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious Reg exe Process - Rule", "ESCU - UAC Bypass MMC Load Unsigned Dll - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Defender Exclusion Registry Entry - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Disable Change Password Through Registry - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Disable Lock Workstation Feature Through Registry - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Disable Notification Center - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Disable Windows Group Policy Features Through Registry - Rule", "ESCU - Windows DisableAntiSpyware Registry - Rule", "ESCU - Windows DISM Remove Defender - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Event For Service Disabled - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Excessive Disabled Services Event - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Hide Notification Features Through Registry - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Modify Show Compress Color And Info Tip Registry - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Process With NamedPipe CommandLine - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Rasautou DLL Execution - Rule", "ESCU - WSReset UAC Bypass - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Parent Process Info - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Info - Response Task"], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "David Dorsey"}, {"name": "Windows Discovery Techniques", "id": "f7aba570-7d59-11eb-825e-acde48001122", "version": 1, "date": "2021-03-04", "author": "Michael Hart, Splunk", "description": "Monitors for behaviors associated with adversaries discovering objects in the environment that can be leveraged in the progression of the attack.", "narrative": "Attackers may not have much if any insight into their target's environment before the initial compromise.  Once a foothold has been established, attackers will start enumerating objects in the environment (accounts, services, network shares, etc.) that can be used to achieve their objectives.  This Analytic Story provides searches to help identify activities consistent with adversaries gaining knowledge of compromised Windows environments.", "references": ["https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0007/", "https://cyberd.us/penetration-testing", "https://attack.mitre.org/software/S0521/"], "tags": {"name": "Windows Discovery Techniques", "analytic_story": "Windows Discovery Techniques", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Behavioral Analytics", "Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1069", "mitre_attack_technique": "Permission Groups Discovery", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Discovery"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "APT3", "TA505"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1069.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Local Groups", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Discovery"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Chimera", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Tonto Team", "Turla", "admin@338"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Discovery"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Reconnaissance"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Net Localgroup Discovery - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Michael Hart"}, {"name": "Windows DNS SIGRed CVE-2020-1350", "id": "36dbb206-d073-11ea-87d0-0242ac130003", "version": 1, "date": "2020-07-28", "author": "Shannon Davis, Splunk", "description": "Uncover activity consistent with CVE-2020-1350, or SIGRed. Discovered by Checkpoint researchers, this vulnerability affects Windows 2003 to 2019, and is triggered by a malicious DNS response (only affects DNS over TCP). An attacker can use the malicious payload to cause a buffer overflow on the vulnerable system, leading to compromise.  The included searches in this Analytic Story are designed to identify the large response payload for SIG and KEY DNS records which can be used for the exploit.", "narrative": "When a client requests a DNS record for a particular domain, that request gets routed first through the client's locally configured DNS server, then to any DNS server(s) configured as forwarders, and then onto the target domain's own DNS server(s).  If a attacker wanted to, they could host a malicious DNS server that responds to the initial request with a specially crafted large response (~65KB).  This response would flow through to the client's local DNS server, which if not patched for CVE-2020-1350, would cause the buffer overflow. The detection searches in this Analytic Story use wire data to detect the malicious behavior. Searches for Splunk Stream and Zeek are included.  The Splunk Stream search correlates across stream:dns and stream:tcp, while the Zeek search correlates across bro:dns:json and bro:conn:json.  These correlations are required to pick up both the DNS record types (SIG and KEY) along with the payload size (>65KB).", "references": ["https://research.checkpoint.com/2020/resolving-your-way-into-domain-admin-exploiting-a-17-year-old-bug-in-windows-dns-servers/", "https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/help/4569509/windows-dns-server-remote-code-execution-vulnerability"], "tags": {"name": "Windows DNS SIGRed CVE-2020-1350", "analytic_story": "Windows DNS SIGRed CVE-2020-1350", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1203", "mitre_attack_technique": "Exploitation for Client Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT12", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT41", "Andariel", "BRONZE BUTLER", "BlackTech", "Cobalt Group", "Darkhotel", "Elderwood", "Frankenstein", "HAFNIUM", "Higaisa", "Inception", "Lazarus Group", "Leviathan", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Patchwork", "Sandworm Team", "Sidewinder", "TA459", "The White Company", "Threat Group-3390", "Tonto Team", "Transparent Tribe", "Tropic Trooper", "admin@338"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "datamodels": ["Network_Resolution"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Detect Windows DNS SIGRed via Splunk Stream - Rule", "ESCU - Detect Windows DNS SIGRed via Zeek - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task"], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Shannon Davis"}, {"name": "Windows File Extension and Association Abuse", "id": "30552a76-ac78-48e4-b3c0-de4e34e9563d", "version": 1, "date": "2018-01-26", "author": "Rico Valdez, Splunk", "description": "Detect and investigate suspected abuse of file extensions and Windows file associations. Some of the malicious behaviors involved may include inserting spaces before file extensions or prepending the file extension with a different one, among other techniques.", "narrative": "Attackers use a variety of techniques to entice users to run malicious code or to persist on an endpoint. One way to accomplish these goals is to leverage file extensions and the mechanism Windows uses to associate files with specific applications. \\\n Since its earliest days, Windows has used extensions to identify file types. Users have become familiar with these extensions and their application associations. For example, if users see that a file ends in `.doc` or `.docx`, they will assume that it is a Microsoft Word document and expect that double-clicking will open it using `winword.exe`. The user will typically also presume that the `.docx` file is safe. \\\n Attackers take advantage of this expectation by obfuscating the true file extension. They can accomplish this in a couple of ways. One technique involves inserting multiple spaces in the file name before the extension to hide the extension from the GUI, obscuring the true nature of the file. Another approach involves prepending the real extension with a different one. This is especially effective when Windows is configured to \"hide extensions for known file types.\" In this case, the real extension is not displayed, but the prepended one is, leading end users to believe the file is a different type than it actually is.\\\nChanging the association between a file extension and an application can allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. The technique typically involves changing the association for an often-launched file type to associate instead with a malicious program the attacker has dropped on the endpoint. When the end user launches a file that has been manipulated in this way, it will execute the attacker's malware. It will also execute the application the end user expected to run, cleverly obscuring the fact that something suspicious has occurred.\\\nRun the searches in this story to detect and investigate suspicious behavior that may indicate abuse or manipulation of Windows file extensions and/or associations.", "references": ["https://blog.malwarebytes.com/cybercrime/2013/12/file-extensions-2/", "https://attack.mitre.org/wiki/Technique/T1042"], "tags": {"name": "Windows File Extension and Association Abuse", "analytic_story": "Windows File Extension and Association Abuse", "category": ["Malware"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1036.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Rename System Utilities", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "GALLIUM", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1546.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Change Default File Association", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Kimsuky"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1036", "mitre_attack_technique": "Masquerading", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT29", "APT32", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "PLATINUM", "TA551", "Windshift", "ZIRCONIUM", "menuPass"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Execution of File With Spaces Before Extension - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious Changes to File Associations - Rule", "ESCU - Execution of File with Multiple Extensions - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Parent Process Info - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Info - Response Task"], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Rico Valdez"}, {"name": "Windows Log Manipulation", "id": "b6db2c60-a281-48b4-95f1-2cd99ed56835", "version": 2, "date": "2017-09-12", "author": "Rico Valdez, Splunk", "description": "Adversaries often try to cover their tracks by manipulating Windows logs. Use these searches to help you monitor for suspicious activity surrounding log files--an essential component of an effective defense.", "narrative": "Because attackers often modify system logs to cover their tracks and/or to thwart the investigative process, log monitoring is an industry-recognized best practice. While there are legitimate reasons to manipulate system logs, it is still worthwhile to keep track of who manipulated the logs, when they manipulated them, and in what way they manipulated them (determining which accesses, tools, or utilities were employed). Even if no malicious activity is detected, the knowledge of an attempt to manipulate system logs may be indicative of a broader security risk that should be thoroughly investigated.\\\nThe Analytic Story gives users two different ways to detect manipulation of Windows Event Logs and one way to detect deletion of the Update Sequence Number (USN) Change Journal. The story helps determine the history of the host and the users who have accessed it. Finally, the story aides in investigation by retrieving all the information on the process that caused these events (if the process has been identified).", "references": ["https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democratic-national-committee/", "https://zeltser.com/security-incident-log-review-checklist/", "http://journeyintoir.blogspot.com/2013/01/re-introducing-usnjrnl.html"], "tags": {"name": "Windows Log Manipulation", "analytic_story": "Windows Log Manipulation", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Security Monitoring", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1490", "mitre_attack_technique": "Inhibit System Recovery", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Impact"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1070", "mitre_attack_technique": "Indicator Removal on Host", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1070.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Clear Windows Event Logs", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT32", "APT38", "APT41", "Chimera", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN5", "FIN8", "Indrik Spider", "Operation Wocao"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Impact"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Deleting Shadow Copies - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious Event Log Service Behavior - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious wevtutil Usage - Rule", "ESCU - USN Journal Deletion - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Event Log Cleared - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Parent Process Info - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Info - Response Task"], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Rico Valdez"}, {"name": "Windows Persistence Techniques", "id": "30874d4f-20a1-488f-85ec-5d52ef74e3f9", "version": 2, "date": "2018-05-31", "author": "Bhavin Patel, Splunk", "description": "Monitor for activities and techniques associated with maintaining persistence on a Windows system--a sign that an adversary may have compromised your environment.", "narrative": "Maintaining persistence is one of the first steps taken by attackers after the initial compromise. Attackers leverage various custom and built-in tools to ensure survivability and persistent access within a compromised enterprise. This Analytic Story provides searches to help you identify various behaviors used by attackers to maintain persistent access to a Windows environment.", "references": ["http://www.fuzzysecurity.com/tutorials/19.html", "https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2010/07/malware-persistence-windows-registry.html", "http://resources.infosecinstitute.com/common-malware-persistence-mechanisms/", "https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2017/05/fin7-shim-databases-persistence.html", "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq2Hv7J9fvk"], "tags": {"name": "Windows Persistence Techniques", "analytic_story": "Windows Persistence Techniques", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1564.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Hidden Files and Directories", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT32", "Lazarus Group", "Mustang Panda", "Rocke", "Transparent Tribe", "Tropic Trooper"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1547.014", "mitre_attack_technique": "Active Setup", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1547", "mitre_attack_technique": "Boot or Logon Autostart Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1546.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Change Default File Association", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Kimsuky"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1546", "mitre_attack_technique": "Event Triggered Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1574.009", "mitre_attack_technique": "Path Interception by Unquoted Path", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1574", "mitre_attack_technique": "Hijack Execution Flow", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1562.006", "mitre_attack_technique": "Indicator Blocking", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1127", "mitre_attack_technique": "Trusted Developer Utilities Proxy Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1562", "mitre_attack_technique": "Impair Defenses", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1222", "mitre_attack_technique": "File and Directory Permissions Modification", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1222.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Windows File and Directory Permissions Modification", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1037", "mitre_attack_technique": "Boot or Logon Initialization Scripts", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Rocke"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1037.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Logon Script (Windows)", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "Cobalt Group"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1547.010", "mitre_attack_technique": "Port Monitors", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1574.011", "mitre_attack_technique": "Services Registry Permissions Weakness", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1546.011", "mitre_attack_technique": "Application Shimming", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["FIN7"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1547.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT18", "APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Cobalt Group", "Dark Caracal", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Higaisa", "Honeybee", "Inception", "Ke3chang", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Leviathan", "Magic Hound", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Naikon", "PROMETHIUM", "Patchwork", "Putter Panda", "RTM", "Rocke", "Sharpshooter", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "Windshift", "Wizard Spider", "ZIRCONIUM"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1543.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Windows Service", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT3", "APT32", "APT38", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Carbanak", "Cobalt Group", "DarkVishnya", "FIN7", "Honeybee", "Ke3chang", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "PROMETHIUM", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1543", "mitre_attack_technique": "Create or Modify System Process", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1053", "mitre_attack_technique": "Scheduled Task/Job", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1053.005", "mitre_attack_technique": "Scheduled Task", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT-C-36", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "CostaRicto", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Frankenstein", "GALLIUM", "Gamaredon Group", "Higaisa", "Machete", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Naikon", "OilRig", "Operation Wocao", "Patchwork", "Rancor", "Silence", "Stealth Falcon", "TEMP.Veles", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1546.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Screensaver", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1547.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Time Providers", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1547.012", "mitre_attack_technique": "Print Processors", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Execution", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Exploitation", "Installation"]}, "detection_names": 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forcing a reboot - Rule", "ESCU - Screensaver Event Trigger Execution - Rule", "ESCU - Shim Database File Creation - Rule", "ESCU - Shim Database Installation With Suspicious Parameters - Rule", "ESCU - Suspicious Scheduled Task from Public Directory - Rule", "ESCU - Time Provider Persistence Registry - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Schtasks Create Run As System - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Service Creation Using Registry Entry - Rule", "ESCU - WinEvent Scheduled Task Created to Spawn Shell - Rule", "ESCU - WinEvent Scheduled Task Created Within Public Path - Rule", "ESCU - WinEvent Windows Task Scheduler Event Action Started - Rule", "ESCU - Print Processor Registry Autostart - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Parent Process Info - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Info - Response Task"], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Bhavin Patel"}, {"name": "Windows Privilege Escalation", "id": "644e22d3-598a-429c-a007-16fdb802cae5", "version": 2, "date": "2020-02-04", "author": "David Dorsey, Splunk", "description": "Monitor for and investigate activities that may be associated with a Windows privilege-escalation attack, including unusual processes running on endpoints, modified registry keys, and more.", "narrative": "Privilege escalation is a \"land-and-expand\" technique, wherein an adversary gains an initial foothold on a host and then exploits its weaknesses to increase his privileges. The motivation is simple: certain actions on a Windows machine--such as installing software--may require higher-level privileges than those the attacker initially acquired. By increasing his privilege level, the attacker can gain the control required to carry out his malicious ends. This Analytic Story provides searches to detect and investigate behaviors that attackers may use to elevate their privileges in your environment.", "references": ["https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0004/"], "tags": {"name": "Windows Privilege Escalation", "analytic_story": "Windows Privilege Escalation", "category": ["Adversary Tactics"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1204.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Malicious File", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT-C-36", "APT12", "APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT30", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT38", "APT39", "Ajax Security Team", "Andariel", "BRONZE BUTLER", "BlackTech", "Cobalt Group", "Dark Caracal", "DarkHydrus", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly 2.0", "Elderwood", "FIN4", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Ferocious Kitten", "Frankenstein", "Gallmaker", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Higaisa", "Inception", "IndigoZebra", "Indrik Spider", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Leviathan", "Machete", "Magic Hound", "Mofang", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Naikon", "Nomadic Octopus", "OilRig", "PLATINUM", "PROMETHIUM", "Patchwork", "RTM", "Rancor", "Sandworm Team", "Sharpshooter", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "TA459", "TA505", "TA551", "The White Company", "Tonto Team", "Transparent Tribe", "Tropic Trooper", "Whitefly", "Windshift", "Wizard Spider", "admin@338", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1547.014", "mitre_attack_technique": "Active Setup", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1547", "mitre_attack_technique": "Boot or Logon Autostart Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1546.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Change Default File Association", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Kimsuky"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1546", "mitre_attack_technique": "Event Triggered Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1562.006", "mitre_attack_technique": "Indicator Blocking", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1127", "mitre_attack_technique": "Trusted Developer Utilities Proxy Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1562", "mitre_attack_technique": "Impair Defenses", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1558", "mitre_attack_technique": "Steal or Forge Kerberos Tickets", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1558.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Kerberoasting", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential 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"Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1546.008", "mitre_attack_technique": "Accessibility Features", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "APT3", "APT41", "Axiom", "Deep Panda", "Fox Kitten"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1546.012", "mitre_attack_technique": "Image File Execution Options Injection", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["TEMP.Veles"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1134", "mitre_attack_technique": "Access Token Manipulation", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Blue Mockingbird", "FIN6"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1134.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Token Impersonation/Theft", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "FIN8"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1546.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Screensaver", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1547.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Time Providers", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1068", "mitre_attack_technique": "Exploitation for Privilege Escalation", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT32", "APT33", "Cobalt Group", "FIN6", "FIN8", "PLATINUM", "Threat Group-3390", "Tonto Team", "Turla", "Whitefly", "ZIRCONIUM"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1547.012", "mitre_attack_technique": "Print Processors", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access", "Defense Evasion", "Execution", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Uncommon Processes On Endpoint - Rule", "ESCU - Active Setup Registry Autostart - Rule", "ESCU - Change Default File Association - Rule", "ESCU - ETW Registry Disabled - Rule", "ESCU - Kerberoasting spn request with RC4 encryption - Rule", "ESCU - Logon Script Event Trigger Execution - Rule", "ESCU - MSI Module Loaded by Non-System Binary - Rule", "ESCU - Overwriting Accessibility Binaries - Rule", "ESCU - Registry Keys Used For Privilege Escalation - Rule", "ESCU - Runas Execution in CommandLine - Rule", "ESCU - Screensaver Event Trigger Execution - Rule", "ESCU - Time Provider Persistence Registry - Rule", "ESCU - Child Processes of Spoolsv exe - Rule", "ESCU - Print Processor Registry Autostart - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Parent Process Info - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Info - Response Task"], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "David Dorsey"}, {"name": "Windows Registry Abuse", "id": "78df1df1-25f1-4387-90f9-c4ea31ce6b75", "version": 1, "date": "2022-03-17", "author": "Teoderick Contreras, Splunk", "description": "Windows services are often used by attackers for persistence, privilege escalation, lateral movement, defense evasion, collection of data, a tool for recon, credential dumping and payload impact. This Analytic Story helps you monitor your environment for indications that Windows registry are being modified or created in a suspicious manner.", "narrative": "Windows Registry is one of the powerful and yet still mysterious Windows features that can tweak or manipulate Windows policies and low-level configuration settings. Because of this capability,  most malware, adversaries or threat actors abuse this hierarchical database to do their malicious intent on a targeted host or network environment. In these cases, attackers often use tools to create or modify registry in ways that are not typical for most environments, providing opportunities for detection.", "references": ["https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1112/", "https://redcanary.com/blog/windows-registry-attacks-threat-detection/"], "tags": {"name": "Windows Registry Abuse", "analytic_story": "Windows Registry Abuse", "category": ["Malware"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1021.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Remote Desktop Protocol", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Lateral Movement"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT3", "APT39", "APT41", "Axiom", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "FIN8", "Fox Kitten", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Leviathan", "OilRig", "Patchwork", "Silence", "TEMP.Veles", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1021", "mitre_attack_technique": "Remote Services", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Lateral Movement"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1548", "mitre_attack_technique": "Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1003.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Security Account Manager", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Dragonfly 2.0", "GALLIUM", "Ke3chang", "Night Dragon", "Threat Group-3390", "Wizard Spider", "menuPass"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1003", "mitre_attack_technique": "OS Credential Dumping", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT28", "APT32", "APT39", "Axiom", "Frankenstein", "Leviathan", "Poseidon Group", "Sowbug", "Suckfly", "Tonto Team"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1552.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Credentials in Registry", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1552", "mitre_attack_technique": "Unsecured Credentials", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1546.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Change Default File Association", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["Kimsuky"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1546", "mitre_attack_technique": "Event Triggered Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1562.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Disable or Modify Tools", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "BRONZE BUTLER", "FIN6", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Indrik Spider", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "MuddyWater", "Night Dragon", "Putter Panda", "Rocke", "TeamTNT", "Turla", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1562", "mitre_attack_technique": "Impair 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"Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "APT37", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Cobalt Group", "Evilnum", "Honeybee", "MuddyWater", "Patchwork", "Threat Group-3390"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1490", "mitre_attack_technique": "Inhibit System Recovery", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Impact"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1562.006", "mitre_attack_technique": "Indicator Blocking", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1127", "mitre_attack_technique": "Trusted Developer Utilities Proxy Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1491", "mitre_attack_technique": "Defacement", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Impact"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1547.010", "mitre_attack_technique": "Port Monitors", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1547", "mitre_attack_technique": "Boot or Logon Autostart Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1546.011", "mitre_attack_technique": "Application Shimming", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["FIN7"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1547.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT18", "APT19", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "Cobalt Group", "Dark Caracal", "Darkhotel", "Dragonfly 2.0", "FIN10", "FIN6", "FIN7", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Higaisa", "Honeybee", "Inception", "Ke3chang", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "Leviathan", "Magic Hound", "Molerats", "MuddyWater", "Mustang Panda", "Naikon", "PROMETHIUM", "Patchwork", "Putter Panda", "RTM", "Rocke", "Sharpshooter", "Sidewinder", "Silence", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "Turla", "Windshift", "Wizard Spider", "ZIRCONIUM"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1546.012", "mitre_attack_technique": "Image File Execution Options Injection", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["TEMP.Veles"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1546.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Screensaver", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1547.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Time Providers", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1485", "mitre_attack_technique": "Data Destruction", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Impact"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT38", "Lazarus Group", "Sandworm Team"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1574.011", "mitre_attack_technique": "Services Registry Permissions Weakness", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Credential Access", "Defense Evasion", "Impact", "Lateral Movement", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Delivery", "Exploitation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Allow Inbound Traffic By Firewall Rule Registry - Rule", "ESCU - Allow Operation with Consent Admin - Rule", "ESCU - Attempted Credential Dump From Registry via Reg exe - Rule", "ESCU - Auto Admin Logon Registry Entry - Rule", "ESCU - Change Default File Association - Rule", "ESCU - Disable AMSI Through Registry - Rule", "ESCU - Disable Defender AntiVirus Registry - Rule", "ESCU - Disable Defender BlockAtFirstSeen Feature - Rule", "ESCU - Disable Defender Enhanced Notification - Rule", "ESCU - Disable Defender MpEngine Registry - Rule", "ESCU - Disable Defender Spynet Reporting - Rule", "ESCU - Disable Defender Submit Samples Consent Feature - Rule", "ESCU - Disable ETW 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Modification Of Wallpaper - Rule", "ESCU - Monitor Registry Keys for Print Monitors - Rule", "ESCU - Registry Keys for Creating SHIM Databases - Rule", "ESCU - Registry Keys Used For Persistence - Rule", "ESCU - Registry Keys Used For Privilege Escalation - Rule", "ESCU - Remcos client registry install entry - Rule", "ESCU - Revil Registry Entry - Rule", "ESCU - Screensaver Event Trigger Execution - Rule", "ESCU - Sdclt UAC Bypass - Rule", "ESCU - SilentCleanup UAC Bypass - Rule", "ESCU - Time Provider Persistence Registry - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Disable Lock Workstation Feature Through Registry - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Disable LogOff Button Through Registry - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Disable Memory Crash Dump - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Disable Notification Center - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Disable Shutdown Button Through Registry - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Disable Windows Group Policy Features Through Registry - Rule", "ESCU - Windows DisableAntiSpyware Registry - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Hide Notification Features Through Registry - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Modify Show Compress Color And Info Tip Registry - Rule", "ESCU - Windows Service Creation Using Registry Entry - Rule", "ESCU - WSReset UAC Bypass - Rule"], "investigation_names": [], "baseline_names": [], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Teoderick Contreras"}, {"name": "Windows Service Abuse", "id": "6dbd810e-f66d-414b-8dfc-e46de55cbfe2", "version": 3, "date": "2017-11-02", "author": "Rico Valdez, Splunk", "description": "Windows services are often used by attackers for persistence and the ability to load drivers or otherwise interact with the Windows kernel. This Analytic Story helps you monitor your environment for indications that Windows services are being modified or created in a suspicious manner.", "narrative": "The Windows operating system uses a services architecture to allow for running code in the background, similar to a UNIX daemon. Attackers will often leverage Windows services for persistence, hiding in plain sight, seeking the ability to run privileged code that can interact with the kernel. In many cases, attackers will create a new service to host their malicious code. Attackers have also been observed modifying unnecessary or unused services to point to their own code, as opposed to what was intended. In these cases, attackers often use tools to create or modify services in ways that are not typical for most environments, providing opportunities for detection.", "references": ["https://attack.mitre.org/wiki/Technique/T1050", "https://attack.mitre.org/wiki/Technique/T1031"], "tags": {"name": "Windows Service Abuse", "analytic_story": "Windows Service Abuse", "category": ["Malware"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1574.011", "mitre_attack_technique": "Services Registry Permissions Weakness", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1574", "mitre_attack_technique": "Hijack Execution Flow", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1543.003", "mitre_attack_technique": "Windows Service", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT19", "APT3", "APT32", "APT38", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Carbanak", "Cobalt Group", "DarkVishnya", "FIN7", "Honeybee", "Ke3chang", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "PROMETHIUM", "TeamTNT", "Threat Group-3390", "Tropic Trooper", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1543", "mitre_attack_technique": "Create or Modify System Process", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1569", "mitre_attack_technique": "System Services", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1569.002", "mitre_attack_technique": "Service Execution", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Execution"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT32", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "Blue Mockingbird", "Chimera", "FIN6", "Honeybee", "Ke3chang", "Operation Wocao", "Silence", "Wizard Spider"]}], "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion", "Execution", "Persistence", "Privilege Escalation"], "datamodels": ["Endpoint"], "kill_chain_phases": ["Actions on Objectives", "Installation"]}, "detection_names": ["ESCU - Reg exe Manipulating Windows Services Registry Keys - Rule", "ESCU - Sc exe Manipulating Windows Services - Rule", "ESCU - First Time Seen Running Windows Service - Rule"], "investigation_names": ["ESCU - Get Notable History - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Parent Process Info - Response Task", "ESCU - Get Process Info - Response Task"], "baseline_names": ["ESCU - Previously Seen Running Windows Services - Initial", "ESCU - Previously Seen Running Windows Services - Update"], "author_company": "Splunk", "author_name": "Rico Valdez"}, {"name": "XMRig", "id": "06723e6a-6bd8-4817-ace2-5fb8a7b06628", "version": 1, "date": "2021-05-07", "author": "Teoderick Contreras, Rod Soto Splunk", "description": "Leverage searches that allow you to detect and investigate unusual activities that might relate to the xmrig monero, including looking for file writes associated with its payload, process command-line, defense evasion (killing services, deleting users, modifying files or folder permission, killing other malware or other coin miner) and hacking tools including Telegram as mean of command and control (C2) to download other files. Adversaries may leverage the resources of co-opted systems in order to solve resource intensive problems which may impact system and/or hosted service availability. One common purpose for Resource Hijacking is to validate transactions of cryptocurrency networks and earn virtual currency. Adversaries may consume enough system resources to negatively impact and/or cause affected machines to become unresponsive. (1) Servers and cloud-based (2) systems are common targets because of the high potential for available resources, but user endpoint systems may also be compromised and used for Resource Hijacking and cryptocurrency mining.", "narrative": "XMRig is a high performance, open source, cross platform RandomX, KawPow, CryptoNight and AstroBWT unified CPU/GPU miner. This monero is seen in the wild on May 2017.", "references": ["https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig", "https://www.getmonero.org/resources/user-guides/mine-to-pool.html", "https://thedfirreport.com/2020/04/20/sqlserver-or-the-miner-in-the-basement/", "https://blog.checkpoint.com/2021/03/11/february-2021s-most-wanted-malware-trickbot-takes-over-following-emotet-shutdown/"], "tags": {"name": "XMRig", "analytic_story": "XMRig", "category": ["Malware"], "product": ["Splunk Enterprise", "Splunk Enterprise Security", "Splunk Cloud"], "usecase": "Advanced Threat Detection", "mitre_attack_enrichments": [{"mitre_attack_id": "T1036.005", "mitre_attack_technique": "Match Legitimate Name or Location", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT1", "APT28", "APT29", "APT32", "APT39", "APT41", "BRONZE BUTLER", "BackdoorDiplomacy", "Blue Mockingbird", "Carbanak", "Chimera", "Darkhotel", "FIN7", "Ferocious Kitten", "Fox Kitten", "Indrik Spider", "Lazarus Group", "Machete", 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"mitre_attack_technique": "Account Access Removal", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Impact"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1562.001", "mitre_attack_technique": "Disable or Modify Tools", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT29", "BRONZE BUTLER", "FIN6", "Gamaredon Group", "Gorgon Group", "Indrik Spider", "Kimsuky", "Lazarus Group", "MuddyWater", "Night Dragon", "Putter Panda", "Rocke", "TeamTNT", "Turla", "Wizard Spider"]}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1562", "mitre_attack_technique": "Impair Defenses", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Defense Evasion"], "mitre_attack_groups": []}, {"mitre_attack_id": "T1105", "mitre_attack_technique": "Ingress Tool Transfer", "mitre_attack_tactics": ["Command And Control"], "mitre_attack_groups": ["APT-C-36", "APT18", "APT28", "APT29", "APT3", "APT32", "APT33", "APT37", "APT38", "APT39", "APT41", "Ajax Security Team", "Andariel", "BRONZE BUTLER", "BackdoorDiplomacy", "Chimera", "Cobalt Group", "Darkhotel", 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