Data from Information Repositories T1213

Adversaries may leverage information repositories to mine valuable information. Information repositories are tools that allow for storage of information, typically to facilitate collaboration or information sharing between users, and can store a wide variety of data that may aid adversaries in further objectives, such as Credential Access, Lateral Movement, or Defense Evasion, or direct access to the target information. Adversaries may also abuse external sharing features to share sensitive documents with recipients outside of the organization (i.e., Transfer Data to Cloud Account).

Events covered

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

Authoring guide

Patterns shared across the 2 rules above: which fields they filter on, what specific values they look for, and what they exclude. The catalog normalizes field names 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 (5 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
OriginalFileName1eq 1sqlcmd.exe
Properties1contains 1612cb747-c0e8-4f92-9221-fdd5f15b550d, b3f93023-9239-4f7c-b99c-6745d87adbc2, b7ff5a38-0818-42b0-8110-d3d154c97f24
event.type1eq 1start
process.args1eq 1, match 1Invoke-DbaQuery, Invoke-SqlExecute, Invoke-SqlQuery
process_name1eq 1sqlcmd.exe

Top indicator values (12 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. Click a value to expand the rules under this technique that use it.

FieldKindValueRules (here)Corpus reach
OriginalFileNameeq
sqlcmd.exe
12
Propertiescontains
612cb747-c0e8-4f92-9221-fdd5f15b550d
1
Propertiescontains
b3f93023-9239-4f7c-b99c-6745d87adbc2
1
Propertiescontains
b7ff5a38-0818-42b0-8110-d3d154c97f24
1
Propertiescontains
b8dfa744-31dc-4ef1-ac7c-84baf7ef9da7
1
event.typeeq
start
1241
process.argseq
Invoke-DbaQuery
1
process.argseq
Invoke-SqlExecute
1
process.argseq
Invoke-SqlQuery
1
process.argseq
Invoke-Sqlcmd
1
process.argsmatch
[VeeamBackup].[dbo].[Credentials]
1
process_nameeq
sqlcmd.exe
12

Exclusions (3 distinct)

Field/operator/value combinations excluded by rules under this technique (top-level not() clauses), sorted by how many rules exclude each. 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. Click a value to expand the rules under this technique that exclude it.

FieldKindValueRules excluding
AccessMaskin
0x0
1
AccessMaskin
0x100
1
SubjectUserSideq
S-1-5-18
1

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.

Elastic 2 rules