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Suspicious reCAPTCHA Command Line (PowerShell)

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

This use case detects commonly abused LOLBAS utilities referencing reCAPTCHA in the command line.

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

References

Telemetry coverage

Rule body

id: '41487.76910'
title: Suspicious reCAPTCHA Command Line
description: This use case detects commonly abused LOLBAS utilities referencing reCAPTCHA
  in the command line.
logic_format: Splunk
logic: '`get_endpoint_data` `get_endpoint_data_powershell` (TERM(EventCode=4103) OR
  "<EventID>4103<" OR (TERM(EventCode=4104) OR "<EventID>4104<")) (TERM(reCAPTCHA)
  OR TERM(robot) OR TERM(human)) | where match(process, "(?i)\sreCAPTCHA\s|I\s+am\s+not\s+a\s+robot|Verify\s+you\s+are\s+human")
  | table _time, host, user parent_*, process_*, process| bin span=1s | stats values(*)
  as * by _time, host '
techniques:
- defense-evasion:system binary proxy execution
- execution:command and scripting interpreter
technique_id: 
- T1218
- T1059
data_category:
- PowerShell logs
references:
- https://www.reliaquest.com/blog/using-captcha-for-compromise/
- https://www.netskope.com/blog/lumma-stealer-fake-captchas-new-techniques-to-evade-detection

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: search

`get_endpoint_data` `get_endpoint_data_powershell` (TERM(EventCode=4103) OR "<EventID>4103<" OR (TERM(EventCode=4104) OR "<EventID>4104<")) (TERM(reCAPTCHA) OR TERM(robot) OR TERM(human))

Stage 2: where

| where match(process, "(?i)\sreCAPTCHA\s|I\s+am\s+not\s+a\s+robot|Verify\s+you\s+are\s+human")

Stage 3: table

| table _time, host, user parent_*, process_*, 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.

FieldKindValuesSearch
EventCodeeq
  • 4103 corpus 105 (splunk 105)
  • 4104 corpus 269 (splunk 269)
field:"EventID" kind:eq
processregex_match
    • "(?i)\sreCAPTCHA\s
    • I\s+am\s+not\s+a\s+robot
    • Verify\s+you\s+are\s+human"
    corpus 2 (splunk 2)
field:"CommandLine" kind:regex_match

Search terms

These SPL tokens match against raw event text.

StageTerm
1"<EventID>4103<"
1"<EventID>4104<"
1reCAPTCHA
1robot
1human