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Screen Capture T1113

Adversaries may attempt to take screen captures of the desktop to gather information over the course of an operation. Screen capturing functionality may be included as a feature of a remote access tool used in post-compromise operations. Taking a screenshot is also typically possible through native utilities or API calls, such as <code>CopyFromScreen</code>, <code>xwd</code>, or <code>screencapture</code>.

Events covered

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

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon1Process creation
Sysmon11FileCreate
Sysmon13RegistryEvent (Value Set)
Sysmon14RegistryEvent (Key and Value Rename)
Security-Auditing4688A new process has been created.
PowerShell4104Creating Scriptblock text (MessageNumber of MessageTotal).

Authoring guide

Patterns shared across the 12 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 (11 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
Image4ends_with 2, eq 2"*\\appdata\\Roaming\\*", \Psr.exe, \reg.exe
file_name4eq 2, in 2"*.dat", "*.png", "*.tiff", "*.bmp", "*.wav"
TargetFilename4eq 4"*\\appdata\\Roaming\\*", "*\\remcos\\*", "*\\temp\\*"
TargetObject3ends_with 3\Control\Session Manager\Configuration..., \Microsoft\Windows\WindowsAI\DisableAIDataAnalysis, \Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsAI\DisableAID...
Details2eq 2DWORD (0x00000001), DWORD (0x00000000)
CommandLine2match 2/start, -start, Microsoft\Windows\WindowsAI, DisableAIDataAnalysis, add
ScriptBlockText2match 1, in 1, eq 1.CopyFromScreen, "*Drawing.Bitmap*", "*[Drawing.Graphics]::FromImage*", "*Graphics.FromImage*"
process_name2eq 2*.exe
EventType1eq 1DeleteValue
OriginalFileName1eq 1reg.exe
EventID1eq 14104

Top indicator values (37 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
process_nameeq*.exe22
Imageeq"*\\appdata\\Roaming\\*"22
TargetFilenameeq"*\\appdata\\Roaming\\*"22
DetailseqDWORD (0x00000001)137
TargetObjectends_with\Control\Session Manager\Configuration Manager\EnablePeriodicBackup1
CommandLinematch/start1
Imageends_with\Psr.exe1
CommandLinematch-start1
TargetObjectends_with\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsAI\DisableAIDataAnalysis1
EventTypeeqDeleteValue15
DetailseqDWORD (0x00000000)138
TargetObjectends_with\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsAI\DisableAIDataAnalysis1
CommandLinematchdelete17
OriginalFileNameeqreg.exe129
CommandLinematchDisableAIDataAnalysis1
Imageends_with\reg.exe146
CommandLinematch014
CommandLinematchadd116
CommandLinematchMicrosoft\Windows\WindowsAI1
ScriptBlockTextmatch.CopyFromScreen1

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 6 rules

Splunk 5 rules

Kusto Query Language 1 rule