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Extracting Information with PowerShell

Status
test
Severity
medium
Log source
product windows, category ps_script
Author
frack113
Source
github.com/SigmaHQ/sigma

Adversaries may search local file systems and remote file shares for files containing insecurely stored credentials. These can be files created by users to store their own credentials, shared credential stores for a group of individuals, configuration files containing passwords for a system or service, or source code/binary files containing embedded passwords.

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Credential AccessT1552.001 Unsecured Credentials: Credentials In Files

Event coverage

ProviderEventTitle
PowerShellEvent ID 4104Creating Scriptblock text (MessageNumber of MessageTotal).

Rule body yaml

title: Extracting Information with PowerShell
id: bd5971a7-626d-46ab-8176-ed643f694f68
status: test
description: |
    Adversaries may search local file systems and remote file shares for files containing insecurely stored credentials.
    These can be files created by users to store their own credentials, shared credential stores for a group of individuals,
    configuration files containing passwords for a system or service, or source code/binary files containing embedded passwords.
references:
    - https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/f339e7da7d05f6057fdfcdd3742bfcf365fee2a9/atomics/T1552.001/T1552.001.md
author: frack113
date: 2021-12-19
modified: 2022-12-25
tags:
    - attack.credential-access
    - attack.t1552.001
logsource:
    product: windows
    category: ps_script
    definition: 'Requirements: Script Block Logging must be enabled'
detection:
    selection:
        ScriptBlockText|contains|all:
            - ls
            - ' -R'
            - 'select-string '
            - '-Pattern '
    condition: selection
falsepositives:
    - Unknown
level: medium

Stages and Predicates

Stage 0: condition

selection

Stage 1: selection

selection:
    ScriptBlockText|contains|all:
        - ls
        - ' -R'
        - 'select-string '
        - '-Pattern '

Indicators

Each row is a field, operator, and value that the rule matches. The corpus column counts how many other rules in the catalog look for the same combination: high numbers point to widely-used, community-vetted indicators. Blank or 1 shows that the indicator is specific to this rule.

FieldKindValues
ScriptBlockTextmatch
  • -R
  • -Pattern
  • ls corpus 2 (sigma 2)
  • select-string