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Potential Russian APT Credential Theft Activity

Status
stable
Severity
critical
Log source
product windows, category process_creation
Author
Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
Source
github.com/SigmaHQ/sigma

Detects Russian group activity as described in Global Threat Report 2019 by Crowdstrike

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Event coverage

Rule body yaml

title: Potential Russian APT Credential Theft Activity
id: b83f5166-9237-4b5e-9cd4-7b5d52f4d8ee
status: stable
description: Detects Russian group activity as described in Global Threat Report 2019 by Crowdstrike
references:
    - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5743766-Global-Threat-Report-2019.html
author: Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
date: 2019-02-21
modified: 2023-03-08
tags:
    - attack.credential-access
    - attack.t1552.001
    - attack.t1003.003
    - detection.emerging-threats
logsource:
    category: process_creation
    product: windows
detection:
    selection_xcopy:
        CommandLine|contains|all:
            - 'xcopy /S /E /C /Q /H \\\\'
            - '\sysvol\'
    selection_adexplorer:
        CommandLine|contains|all:
            - 'adexplorer -snapshot "" c:\users\'
            - '\downloads\'
            - '.snp'
    condition: 1 of selection_*
falsepositives:
    - Unlikely
level: critical

Stages and Predicates

Stage 0: condition

1 of selection_*

Stage 1: selection_xcopy

selection_xcopy:
    CommandLine|contains|all:
        - 'xcopy /S /E /C /Q /H \\\\'
        - '\sysvol\'

Stage 2: selection_adexplorer

selection_adexplorer:
    CommandLine|contains|all:
        - 'adexplorer -snapshot "" c:\users\'
        - '\downloads\'
        - '.snp'

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
CommandLinematch
  • .snp
  • \downloads\ corpus 14 (sigma 14)
  • \sysvol\ corpus 4 (sigma 4)
  • adexplorer -snapshot "" c:\users\
  • xcopy /S /E /C /Q /H \\\\