Password Dumper Remote Thread in LSASS

Status: stable
Severity: high
Log source: category create_remote_thread, product windows
Author: Thomas Patzke
Source: github.com/SigmaHQ/sigma

Detects password dumper activity by monitoring remote thread creation EventID 8 in combination with the lsass.exe process as TargetImage. The process in field Process is the malicious program. A single execution can lead to hundreds of events.

Known false positives

Antivirus products

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Tactic	Techniques
Credential Access	`T1003.001` OS Credential Dumping: LSASS Memory

Telemetry coverage

Provider	Record / event type
Sysmon	Event ID 8: CreateRemoteThread

Rule body

title: Password Dumper Remote Thread in LSASS
id: f239b326-2f41-4d6b-9dfa-c846a60ef505
status: stable
description: |
    Detects password dumper activity by monitoring remote thread creation EventID 8 in combination with the lsass.exe process as TargetImage.
    The process in field Process is the malicious program. A single execution can lead to hundreds of events.
references:
    - https://jpcertcc.github.io/ToolAnalysisResultSheet/details/WCE.htm
author: Thomas Patzke
date: 2017-02-19
modified: 2021-06-21
tags:
    - attack.credential-access
    - attack.s0005
    - attack.t1003.001
logsource:
    product: windows
    category: create_remote_thread
detection:
    selection:
        TargetImage|endswith: '\lsass.exe'
        StartModule: ''
    condition: selection
falsepositives:
    - Antivirus products
level: high

Stages and Predicates

Stage 0: `condition`

selection

Stage 1: `selection`

selection:
    TargetImage|endswith: '\lsass.exe'
    StartModule: ''

Indicators

These rows show field, operator, and value matches.

Field	Kind	Values	Search
`TargetImage`	ends_with	`\lsass.exe` corpus 16 (sigma 16)	`field:"TargetImage" kind:ends_with value:"\lsass.exe"`