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Driver as Command Parameter (Windows Event Log)
Adversaries may use signed drivers in order to take advantage of vulnerabilities in order to execute malicious code or establish persistence. This use case looks for when a driver file (.sys) has been passed as a command line parameter
MITRE ATT&CK coverage
| Tactic | Techniques |
|---|---|
| Privilege Escalation | |
| Stealth |
References
Telemetry coverage
| Provider | Record / event type |
|---|---|
| Security-Auditing | Event ID 4688: A new process has been created. |
Rule body
id: '6129.6614'
title: Driver as Command Parameter
description: 'Adversaries may use signed drivers in order to take advantage of vulnerabilities
in order to execute malicious code or establish persistence. This use case looks
for when a driver file (.sys) has been passed as a command line parameter. -- Threat
Actor Association: Bluebottle, Lancefly, Lazarus - Software Association: Cuba, DirtyMoe,
HermeticWiper - Atomics T1014 Test #3'
logic_format: Splunk
logic: '`get_endpoint_data` `get_endpoint_data_winevent` (TERM(EventCode=4688) OR
"<EventID>4688<" OR Type=Process) "sys" | regex process="(?i)\.sys"| table _time,
host, user, signature_id, process, process_*, parent_process_* | bin span=1s | stats
values(*) as * by _time, host '
techniques:
- defense-evasion:system binary proxy execution
- privilege-escalation:exploitation for privilege escalation
technique_id:
- T1218
- T1068
data_category:
- Windows event logs
- Process command-line parameters
references:
- https://zerosum0x0.blogspot.com/2017/07/puppet-strings-dirty-secret-for-free.html
- http://www.fuzzysecurity.com/tutorials/28.html
Stages and Predicates
Stage 1: search
`get_endpoint_data` `get_endpoint_data_winevent` (TERM(EventCode=4688) OR "<EventID>4688<" OR Type=Process) "sys"
Stage 2: regex
| regex process="(?i)\.sys"
Stage 3: table
| table _time, host, user, signature_id, process, process_*, parent_process_*
Stage 4: bucket
| bin span=1s
Stage 5: stats
| stats values(*) as * by _time, host
Indicators
These rows show field, operator, and value matches.
| Field | Kind | Values | Search |
|---|---|---|---|
EventCode | eq |
| field:"EventID" kind:eq value:"4688" |
process | regex_match |
| field:"CommandLine" kind:regex_match |
Search terms
These SPL tokens match against raw event text.
| Stage | Term |
|---|---|
| 1 | "<EventID>4688<" |
| 1 | "sys" |