Browser Session Hijacking T1185
Tactic: Collection
Adversaries may take advantage of security vulnerabilities and inherent functionality in browser software to change content, modify user-behaviors, and intercept information as part of various browser session hijacking techniques.
Events covered
6 catalog events are tagged with this technique by at least one rule.
| Provider | Event | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sysmon | Event ID 1 | Process creation |
| Sysmon | Event ID 13 | RegistryEvent (Value Set) |
| Security-Auditing | Event ID 4688 | A new process has been created. |
| ESF | exec | Process Execution |
| PowerShell | Event ID 4103 | Payload Context: ContextInfo User Data: UserData. |
| PowerShell | Event ID 4104 | Creating Scriptblock text (MessageNumber of MessageTotal). |
Authoring guide
These 17 rules share fields, values, and exclusions.
Fields filtered most (26 distinct)
These fields appear most often in rule filters.
Top indicator values (65 distinct)
These values appear most often in rule predicates.
Exclusions (21 distinct)
These values appear most often in top-level exclusions.
Rules under this technique
These vendors publish rules tagged with this technique.
Sigma 2 rules
Elastic 2 rules
Splunk 12 rules
- ASL AWS Concurrent Sessions From Different Ips
- AWS Concurrent Sessions From Different Ips
- Azure AD Concurrent Sessions From Different Ips
- Browser Started with Remote Debugging - Windows (PowerShell)
- Browser Started with Remote Debugging - Windows (Sysmon)
- Browser Started with Remote Debugging - Windows (Windows Event Log)
- O365 Concurrent Sessions From Different Ips
- Windows Browser Process Launched with Unusual Flags
- Windows Chrome Auto-Update Disabled via Registry
- Windows Chrome Enable Extension Loading via Command-Line
- Windows Chrome Extension Allowed Registry Modification
- Windows Chromium Process Loaded Extension via Command-Line