PUA - Adidnsdump Execution

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

This tool enables enumeration and exporting of all DNS records in the zone for recon purposes of internal networks Python 3 and python.exe must be installed, Usee to Query/modify DNS records for Active Directory integrated DNS via LDAP

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Tactic	Techniques
Discovery	`T1018` Remote System Discovery

Telemetry coverage

Provider	Record / event type
Sysmon	Event ID 1: Process creation
Security-Auditing	Event ID 4688: A new process has been created.

Rule body

title: PUA - Adidnsdump Execution
id: 26d3f0a2-f514-4a3f-a8a7-e7e48a8d9160
status: test
description: |
    This tool enables enumeration and exporting of all DNS records in the zone for recon purposes of internal networks Python 3 and python.exe must be installed,
    Usee to Query/modify DNS records for Active Directory integrated DNS via LDAP
references:
    - https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/f339e7da7d05f6057fdfcdd3742bfcf365fee2a9/atomics/T1018/T1018.md#atomic-test-9---remote-system-discovery---adidnsdump
author: frack113
date: 2022-01-01
modified: 2023-02-21
tags:
    - attack.discovery
    - attack.t1018
logsource:
    category: process_creation
    product: windows
detection:
    selection:
        Image|endswith: '\python.exe'
        CommandLine|contains: 'adidnsdump'
    condition: selection
falsepositives:
    - Unknown
level: low

Stages and Predicates

Stage 0: `condition`

selection

Stage 1: `selection`

selection:
    Image|endswith: '\python.exe'
    CommandLine|contains: 'adidnsdump'

Indicators

These rows show field, operator, and value matches.

Field	Kind	Values	Search
`CommandLine`	match	`adidnsdump`	`field:"CommandLine" kind:match value:"adidnsdump"`
`Image`	ends_with	`\python.exe` corpus 4 (sigma 4)	`field:"Image" kind:ends_with value:"\python.exe"`