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Data from Local System T1005

Adversaries may search local system sources, such as file systems, configuration files, local databases, virtual machine files, or process memory, to find files of interest and sensitive data prior to Exfiltration.

Events covered

12 catalog events are tagged with this technique by at least one rule.

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon1Process creation
Sysmon3Network connection
Sysmon11FileCreate
Sysmon17PipeEvent (Pipe Created)
Sysmon18PipeEvent (Pipe Connected)
Security-Auditing4656A handle to an object was requested.
Security-Auditing4662An operation was performed on an object.
Security-Auditing4663An attempt was made to access an object.
Security-Auditing4688A new process has been created.
Security-Auditing5156The Windows Filtering Platform has permitted a connection.
Defender-DeviceEvents9007003AMSI script content captured
Windows-Error-Reporting1001Fault bucket , type.

Authoring guide

Patterns shared across the 16 rules above: which fields they filter on, what specific values they look for, and what they exclude. Field names are normalized across vendors so Sigma's Image, Elastic's process.name, and Splunk's process_name collapse into one row. Each rule contributes at most once per row.

Fields filtered most (16 distinct)

The fields most rules look at when detecting this technique. The How column shows the operators authors use (eq, wildcard, regex_match, match) and how often each appears. Sample values are concrete examples to start from, not an exhaustive list.

FieldRulesHowSample values
CommandLine7match 6, eq 1System, \Windows\WebCache, -r, gitleaks, trufflehog
Image7ends_with 7\sqlite3.exe, \sqlite.exe, \sqlcmd.exe, \Microsoft.Tri.Sensor.exe, \tssdis.exe
EventID4eq 4412, 3, 18, 11
Computer3eq 3ADFS_Servers
Source2eq 2Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon
PipeName2eq 2\\MICROSOFT##WID\\tsql\\query, \MICROSOFT##WID\tsql\query
Product2eq 2SQLite
Initiated1eq 1false
DestinationPort1eq 180
AdditionalFields1ends_with 1[mArS.deiMos]::inteRaCt()"}
ActionType1eq 1AmsiScriptContent
InitiatingProcessFileName1eq 1powershell.exe
Provider_Name1eq 1Microsoft-Windows-WER-SystemErrorReporting
OriginalFileName1eq 1esentutl.exe
ParentImage1ends_with 1\node.exe, \bun.exe

Top indicator values (66 distinct)

Specific (field, operator, value) combinations the rules check for, ranked by how many rules under this technique use each one. The Corpus reach column counts how many rules across the entire catalog (any technique) check the same combination. High numbers point to widely-used indicators that are likely noisy on their own; combine them with another condition for useful signal. Blank means the combination is specific to rules under this technique.

FieldKindValueRules (here)Corpus reach
ComputereqADFS_Servers3
SourceeqMicrosoft-Windows-Sysmon2
Imageends_with\sqlite.exe22
Imageends_with\sqlite3.exe22
ProducteqSQLite22
Imageends_with\sqlcmd.exe22
EventIDeq4121
Initiatedeqfalse1
EventIDeq314
DestinationPorteq8016
CommandLineeqSystem1
PipeNameeq\\MICROSOFT##WID\\tsql\\query1
EventIDeq1813
ActionTypeeqAmsiScriptContent1
AdditionalFieldsends_with[mArS.deiMos]::inteRaCt()"}1
InitiatingProcessFileNameeqpowershell.exe1
Imageends_with:\Windows\System32\mmc.exe13
Imageends_with:\Windows\WID\Binn\sqlwriter.exe1
Imageends_with\sqlservr.exe1
Imageends_with:\Windows\SysWOW64\mmc.exe1

Common exclusions (9 distinct)

Field/operator/value combinations that rules under this technique routinely exclude (top-level not() clauses). These are the false-positive paths the community has learned to filter out. A new rule that ignores the high-count entries here will likely fire on the same noisy paths.

FieldKindValueRules excluding
dest_ipin::11
dest_ipin0:0:0:0:0:0:0:11
CommandLineinAzureADConnect.exe1
CommandLineinMicrosoft.IdentityServer.ServiceHost.exe1
CommandLineinmmc.exe1
CommandLineinsqlservr.exe1
CommandLineinwsmprovhost.exe1
CommandLineinMicrosoft.Tri.Sensor.exe1
CommandLineinMicrosoft.Identity.Health.Adfs.PshSurrogate.exe1

Rules under this technique

Every rule in the catalog tagged with this technique, grouped by vendor. Click a rule title for its full predicates, exclusions, and indicators.

Sigma 8 rules

Splunk 1 rule

Kusto Query Language 7 rules