Exploitation for Credential Access T1212
Tactic: Credential Access
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to collect credentials. Exploitation of a software vulnerability occurs when an adversary takes advantage of a programming error in a program, service, or within the operating system software or kernel itself to execute adversary-controlled code.
Events covered
10 catalog events are tagged with this technique by at least one rule.
Authoring guide
These 23 rules share fields, values, and exclusions.
Fields filtered most (32 distinct)
These fields appear most often in rule filters.
Top indicator values (203 distinct)
These values appear most often in rule predicates.
Rules under this technique
These vendors publish rules tagged with this technique.
Sigma 5 rules
- Audit CVE Event
- GALLIUM IOCs
- Guacamole Two Users Sharing Session Anomaly
- Kerberos Manipulation
- Suspicious NTLM Authentication on the Printer Spooler Service
Elastic 6 rules
- Manual Memory Dumping via Proc Filesystem
- Potential CertiGhost AD CS Machine Identity Mismatch (CVE-2026-54121)
- Potential Linux Credential Dumping via Proc Filesystem
- Potential Local NTLM Relay via HTTP
- Potential Memory Dumping via dd
- Segfault from Sensitive Process Detected
Splunk 3 rules
- Kubernetes Nginx Ingress LFI
- Kubernetes Nginx Ingress RFI
- Windows ConvertTo-AADIntBackdoor Execution Via PowerShell Script
Kusto 9 rules
- [AzureSubscription] Suspicious Azure VM Run Command Execution Detected
- Azure secure score block legacy authentication
- Azure VM Run Command operation executed during suspicious login window
- Dataverse - Login by a sensitive privileged user
- Detect device token stealing with WDAC
- GitHub Security Vulnerability in Repository
- Pure Failed Login
- Threats detected by Eset
- Unauthorized user access across AWS and Azure