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Input Capture: GUI Input Capture T1056.002

Adversaries may mimic common operating system GUI components to prompt users for credentials with a seemingly legitimate prompt. When programs are executed that need additional privileges than are present in the current user context, it is common for the operating system to prompt the user for proper credentials to authorize the elevated privileges for the task (ex: Bypass User Account Control).

Events covered

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

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon1Process creation
Sysmon7Image loaded

Authoring guide

Patterns shared across the 3 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 (7 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
OriginalFileName2eq 2credui.dll, wincredui.dll, "credui.dll", "wincredui.dll"
ImageLoaded2ends_with 1, eq 1\wincredui.dll, \credui.dll, "*\\credui.dll", "*\\wincredui.dll"
Image1eq 1, ends_with 1, match 1, starts_with 1\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OneDrive\, \opera_autoupdate.exe, C:\Windows\SystemApps\
CommandLine1match 1Mouse Lock_
Company1match 1Misc314
Product1match 1Mouse Lock
EventID1eq 17

Top indicator values (27 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
ImageeqC:\Windows\regedit.exe1
Imagestarts_withC:\Windows\SysWOW64\116
ImageLoadedends_with\wincredui.dll1
OriginalFileNameeqcredui.dll1
Imagematch\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OneDrive\14
ImageeqC:\Windows\ImmersiveControlPanel\SystemSettings.exe14
Imageends_with\procexp.exe16
Imagestarts_withC:\Program Files (x86)\114
Imagestarts_withC:\Windows\SystemApps\12
OriginalFileNameeqwincredui.dll1
Imageends_with\procexp64.exe16
Imagestarts_withC:\Windows\System32\116
Imagestarts_withC:\Program Files\115
ImageLoadedends_with\credui.dll12
Imagestarts_withC:\Users\17
ImageeqC:\Windows\explorer.exe19
Imagematch\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Teams\1
Imageends_with\Teams.exe14
Imageends_with\opera_autoupdate.exe1
CompanymatchMisc3141

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 2 rules

Splunk 1 rule