Clipboard Data T1115

Tactic: Collection

Adversaries may collect data stored in the clipboard from users copying information within or between applications.

Events covered

8 catalog events are tagged with this technique by at least one rule.

Authoring guide

These 21 rules share fields, values, and exclusions.

Fields filtered most (31 distinct)

These fields appear most often in rule filters.

FieldRulesHowSample values
CommandLine5contains 4, in 1 -e , *-o *, *-sel *, *-selection *, -encodedcommand
EventID5eq 54104, 4688, 1, 4103
process_name5eq 4, in 1pbpaste, clipman, copyq, launchd, wl-clipboard
EventType4eq 3, in 1exec, exec_event, executed, fork
Image4ends_with 3, contains 1/osascript, /pbpaste, \clip.exe, xclip
event.type4eq 4start
host.os.type3eq 3
ScriptBlockText2contains 1, eq 1, in 1get-clipboard, .paste(), ]::gettext
a02eq 2xclip
a12eq 2-sel, -selection
a22eq 2clip, clipboard
a32eq 2-o, -t
event.category2eq 2process
process.args_count2eq 21, 2
type2eq 2execve

Top indicator values (82 distinct)

These values appear most often in rule predicates.

FieldKindValueRules (here)Corpus reach
event.typeeq
start
41078
EventTypeeq
exec
3576
EventIDeq
4104
2269
EventIDeq
4688
2317
a0eq
xclip
22
a1eq
-sel
22
a1eq
-selection
22
a2eq
clip
22
a2eq
clipboard
22
event.categoryeq
process
2142
process_nameeq
pbpaste
22
typeeq
execve
237
All_Risk.analyticstoriescontains
windows post-exploitation
1
CommandLinecontains
-e
117
CommandLinecontains
-encodedcommand
14
CommandLinecontains
-o
13
CommandLinecontains
-sel
1
CommandLinecontains
clip
1
CommandLinecontains
clipboard
12
CommandLinecontains
get-clipboard
1
CommandLinecontains
osascript
12
CommandLinecontains
set fileref
1
CommandLinecontains
set imagedata to the clipboard
1
CommandLinein
*-o *
13
CommandLinein
*-sel *
1
CommandLinein
*-selection *
1
CommandLinein
*clip *
1
CommandLinein
*clipboard*
1
EfectiveCommandregex_match
regexEmpire
1
EventDatacontains
-encodedcommand
1

Exclusions (22 distinct)

These values appear most often in top-level exclusions.

FieldKindValueRules excluding
CommandLinecontains
-e
1
CommandLinecontains
osascript
1
CommandLinecontains
set fileref
1
CommandLinecontains
set imagedata to the clipboard
1
EventDatacontains
gc_service.exe
1
EventDatacontains
gc_worker.exe
1
ParentImagecontains
gc_service.exe
1
ParentImagecontains
gc_worker.exe
1
ParentImageends_with
opencode
1
ParentImagewildcard
/users/*/.pyenv/versions/*/bin/python3*
1
ScriptBlockTexteq
powersploitindicators
1
ScriptBlockTexteq
sentinelbreakpoints
1
ScriptBlockTexteq
set-psbreakpoint
1
ScriptBlockTextin
[windows.clipboard]::settext($colorizedtext
1
ScriptBlockTextin
eefcb906-b326-4e99-9f54-8b4bb6ef3c6d
1

Rules under this technique

These vendors publish rules tagged with this technique.

Domain: Endpoint

Platform (all)

Sigma 8 rules

Elastic 5 rules

Splunk 7 rules

Kusto 1 rule