Process Connection to Mega - Windows (Windows Event Log)

Group by: _time, host
Source: github.com/anvilogic-forge/armory

Mega is a cloud storage service used by many threat actors due to its use of end-to-end encryption and semi-anonymous payment options. The client application MEGAsync.exe and command-line interface utility MegaCMD allow threat actors to exfiltrate large amounts of data. This use case detects network connections involving MEGASync.exe or MegaCMD or network connections to mega.co.nz or mega.nz (Sysmon only).

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Tactic	Techniques
Exfiltration	`T1567` Exfiltration Over Web Service

References

https://redcanary.com/blog/threat-detection/rclone-mega-extortion/

Telemetry coverage

Provider	Record / event type
Security-Auditing	Event ID 5156: The Windows Filtering Platform has permitted a connection.

Rule body

id: '35864.62857'
title: Process Connection to Mega - Windows
description: Mega is a cloud storage service used by many threat actors due to its
  use of end-to-end encryption and semi-anonymous payment options. The client application
  MEGAsync.exe and command-line interface utility MegaCMD allow threat actors to exfiltrate
  large amounts of data. This use case detects network connections involving MEGASync.exe
  or MegaCMD or network connections to mega.co.nz or mega.nz (Sysmon only).
logic_format: Splunk
logic: '`get_endpoint_data` `get_endpoint_data_winevent` (TERM(EventCode=5156) OR
  "<EventID>5156<") "Megasync.exe" OR "megacmd" | where match(process_name, "(?i)mega(sync|cmd)")
  | table _time, host, user, process, process_*, parent_process_*, dest_host | bin
  span=300s | stats values(*) as * by _time, host '
techniques:
- exfiltration:exfiltration over web service
technique_id: 
- T1567
data_category:
- Windows event logs
- Process use of network
references:
- https://redcanary.com/blog/threat-detection/rclone-mega-extortion/

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: `search`

`get_endpoint_data` `get_endpoint_data_winevent` (TERM(EventCode=5156) OR "<EventID>5156<") "Megasync.exe" OR "megacmd"

Stage 2: `where`

| where match(process_name, "(?i)mega(sync|cmd)")

Stage 3: `table`

| table _time, host, user, process, process_*, parent_process_*, dest_host

Stage 4: `bucket`

| bin span=300s

Stage 5: `stats`

| stats values(*) as * by _time, host

Indicators

These rows show field, operator, and value matches.

Field	Kind	Values	Search
`EventCode`	eq	`5156` corpus 15 (splunk 13, kusto 2)	`field:"EventID" kind:eq value:"5156"`
`process_name`	regex_match	`"(?i)mega(sync\|cmd)"` corpus 2 (splunk 2)	`field:"process_name" kind:regex_match`

Search terms

These SPL tokens match against raw event text.

Stage	Term
1	`"<EventID>5156<"`
1	`"Megasync.exe"`
1	`"megacmd"`