Resource Hijacking T1496
Tactic: Impact
Adversaries may leverage the resources of co-opted systems to complete resource-intensive tasks, which may impact system and/or hosted service availability.
Events covered
7 catalog events are tagged with this technique by at least one rule.
| Provider | Event | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sysmon | Event ID 1 | Process creation |
| Sysmon | Event ID 3 | Network connection |
| Sysmon | Event ID 22 | DNSEvent (DNS query) |
| Security-Auditing | Event ID 4688 | A new process has been created. |
| PowerShell | Event ID 4104 | Creating Scriptblock text (MessageNumber of MessageTotal). |
| Sysmon-for-Linux | Event ID 1 | Process Create |
| Sysmon-for-Linux | Event ID 3 | Network connection |
Authoring guide
These 62 rules share fields, values, and exclusions.
Fields filtered most (67 distinct)
These fields appear most often in rule filters.
Top indicator values (1649 distinct)
These values appear most often in rule predicates.
Exclusions (112 distinct)
These values appear most often in top-level exclusions.
Rules under this technique
These vendors publish rules tagged with this technique.
Sigma 13 rules
- Azure Container Registry Created or Deleted
- Azure Kubernetes Cluster Created or Deleted
- Azure Kubernetes Network Policy Change
- Azure Kubernetes RoleBinding/ClusterRoleBinding Modified and Deleted
- Azure Kubernetes Secret or Config Object Access
- Azure Kubernetes Sensitive Role Access
- Azure Kubernetes Service Account Modified or Deleted
- DNS Events Related To Mining Pools
- Linux Crypto Mining Indicators
- Linux Crypto Mining Pool Connections
- Monero Crypto Coin Mining Pool Lookup
- Network Communication With Crypto Mining Pool
- Potential Crypto Mining Activity
Elastic 18 rules
- AWS Bedrock Provisioned Model Throughput Tampering
- AWS Lambda Function High-Frequency Invocation by a Single Principal
- AWS Potential Cryptomining via ECS Task Definition Deployment
- AWS SNS Rare Protocol Subscription by User
- AWS SNS Topic Created by Rare User
- AWS SNS Topic Message Publish by Rare User
- DNS Request to Crypto Miner Service
- Memory Swap Modification
- MSR Write Access Enabled
- Newly Observed Process Exhibiting High CPU Usage
- Potential Coin Miner Execution
- Potential Coin Miner Execution via Shell
- Potential Crypto Mining Activity
- Potential Malware-Driven SSH Brute Force Attempt
- Potential Mining Pool Command Detection
- Potential Redis CONFIG SET Cron Directory Persistence (RedisRaider)
- Scripting or Unsigned Binary Performing DNS Lookups to Ethereum RPC Providers
- Suspicious Mining Process Creation Event
Splunk 3 rules
- Potential Cryptomining Commands (PowerShell)
- Potential Cryptomining Commands (Sysmon)
- Potential Cryptomining Commands (Windows Event Log)
Kusto 19 rules
- A host is potentially running a crypto miner (ASIM Web Session schema)
- AWSCloudTrail - Suspicious AWS EC2 Compute Resource Deployments
- Azure DevOps Personal Access Token (PAT) misuse
- Azure DevOps Service Connection Abuse
- Azure DevOps Service Connection Addition/Abuse - Historic allow list
- Azure Machine Learning Write Operations
- Chia_Crypto_Mining IOC - June 2021
- Cisco Cloud Security - Crypto Miner User-Agent Detected
- Detect CoreBackUp Deletion Activity from related Security Alerts
- DNS events related to mining pools
- DNS events related to mining pools (ASIM DNS Schema)
- F&O - Reverted bank account number modifications
- Medium severity malicious activity detected
- NRT DNS events related to mining pools
- OCI - Multiple instances launched
- Subscription moved to another tenant
- Suspicious number of resource creation or deployment activities
- Suspicious Resource deployment
- VMware ESXi - Unexpected disk image