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Steal Web Session Cookie T1539

An adversary may steal web application or service session cookies and use them to gain access to web applications or Internet services as an authenticated user without needing credentials. Web applications and services often use session cookies as an authentication token after a user has authenticated to a website.

Events covered

1 catalog event are tagged with this technique by at least one rule.

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon1Process creation

Authoring guide

Patterns shared across the 2 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 (3 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
Image2ends_with 2\sqlite3.exe, \sqlite.exe
CommandLine2match 2Cookies, \ChromiumViewer\, Web Data, cookies.sqlite, places.sqlite
Product2eq 2SQLite

Top indicator values (13 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
Imageends_with\sqlite.exe22
Imageends_with\sqlite3.exe22
ProducteqSQLite22
CommandLinematchBookmarks12
CommandLinematchCookies12
CommandLinematchLogin Data12
CommandLinematchWeb Data1
CommandLinematch\Opera Software\1
CommandLinematch\User Data\1
CommandLinematch\ChromiumViewer\1
CommandLinematchHistory12
CommandLinematchplaces.sqlite12
CommandLinematchcookies.sqlite12

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