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Credential Dumping Tools Service Execution - System

Status
test
Severity
high
Log source
product windows, service system
Author
Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), Teymur Kheirkhabarov, Daniil Yugoslavskiy, oscd.community
Source
github.com/SigmaHQ/sigma

Detects well-known credential dumping tools execution via service execution events

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Event coverage

Rule body yaml

title: Credential Dumping Tools Service Execution - System
id: 4976aa50-8f41-45c6-8b15-ab3fc10e79ed
status: test
description: Detects well-known credential dumping tools execution via service execution events
references:
    - https://www.slideshare.net/heirhabarov/hunting-for-credentials-dumping-in-windows-environment
author: Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), Teymur Kheirkhabarov, Daniil Yugoslavskiy, oscd.community
date: 2017-03-05
modified: 2022-11-29
tags:
    - attack.credential-access
    - attack.execution
    - attack.t1003.001
    - attack.t1003.002
    - attack.t1003.004
    - attack.t1003.005
    - attack.t1003.006
    - attack.t1569.002
    - attack.s0005
logsource:
    product: windows
    service: system
detection:
    selection:
        Provider_Name: 'Service Control Manager'
        EventID: 7045
        ImagePath|contains:
            - 'cachedump'
            - 'dumpsvc'
            - 'fgexec'
            - 'gsecdump'
            - 'mimidrv'
            - 'pwdump'
            - 'servpw'
    condition: selection
falsepositives:
    - Legitimate Administrator using credential dumping tool for password recovery
level: high

Stages and Predicates

Stage 0: condition

selection

Stage 1: selection

selection:
    Provider_Name: 'Service Control Manager'
    EventID: 7045
    ImagePath|contains:
        - 'cachedump'
        - 'dumpsvc'
        - 'fgexec'
        - 'gsecdump'
        - 'mimidrv'
        - 'pwdump'
        - 'servpw'

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
ImagePathmatch
  • cachedump corpus 2 (sigma 1, kusto 1)
  • dumpsvc
  • fgexec corpus 2 (sigma 1, kusto 1)
  • gsecdump
  • mimidrv corpus 2 (sigma 1, kusto 1)
  • pwdump corpus 2 (sigma 1, kusto 1)
  • servpw
Provider_Nameeq
  • Service Control Manager corpus 50 (sigma 50)