SMB over QUIC Via Net.EXE

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

Detects the mounting of Windows SMB shares over QUIC, which can be an unexpected event in some enterprise environments.

Known false positives

Administrative activity

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Tactic	Techniques
Lateral Movement	`T1570` Lateral Tool Transfer

Telemetry coverage

Provider	Record / event type
Sysmon	Event ID 1: Process creation

Rule body

title: SMB over QUIC Via Net.EXE
id: 2238d337-42fb-4971-9a68-63570f2aede4
related:
    - id: 6df07c3b-8456-4f8b-87bb-fe31ec964cae
      type: similar
status: test
description: Detects the mounting of Windows SMB shares over QUIC, which can be an unexpected event in some enterprise environments.
references:
    - https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/74438b0237d141ee9c99747976447dc884cb1a39/atomics/T1570/T1570.md
    - https://www.trustedsec.com/blog/making-smb-accessible-with-ntlmquic/
author: frack113
date: 2023-07-21
tags:
    - attack.lateral-movement
    - attack.t1570
    - detection.threat-hunting
logsource:
    category: process_creation
    product: windows
detection:
    selection_img:
        - Image|endswith:
              - '\net.exe'
              - '\net1.exe'
        - OriginalFileName:
              - 'net.exe'
              - 'net1.exe'
    selection_cli:
        CommandLine|contains: '/TRANSPORT:QUIC'
    condition: all of selection_*
falsepositives:
    - Administrative activity
level: medium

Stages and Predicates

Stage 0: `condition`

all of selection_*

Stage 1: `selection_img`

selection_img:
    - Image|endswith:
          - '\net.exe'
          - '\net1.exe'
    - OriginalFileName:
          - 'net.exe'
          - 'net1.exe'

Stage 2: `selection_cli`

selection_cli:
    CommandLine|contains: '/TRANSPORT:QUIC'

Indicators

These rows show field, operator, and value matches.

Field	Kind	Values	Search
`CommandLine`	match	`/TRANSPORT:QUIC`	`field:"CommandLine" kind:match value:"/TRANSPORT:QUIC"`
`Image`	ends_with	`\net.exe` corpus 49 (sigma 49) `\net1.exe` corpus 47 (sigma 47)	`field:"Image" kind:ends_with`
`OriginalFileName`	eq	`net.exe` corpus 31 (sigma 19, elastic 10, splunk 2) `net1.exe` corpus 44 (sigma 19, splunk 19, elastic 6)	`field:"OriginalFileName" kind:eq`

SMB over QUIC Via Net.EXE

Known false positives

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Telemetry coverage

Rule body

Stages and Predicates

Stage 0: condition

Stage 1: selection_img

Stage 2: selection_cli

Indicators

Stage 0: `condition`

Stage 1: `selection_img`

Stage 2: `selection_cli`