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

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

Authoring guide

Patterns shared across the 3 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 (6 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
CommandLine3contains 2, wildcard 1"C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"..., "C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"..., "C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"..., \chromiumviewer\, \opera software\
Image2ends_with 2\sqlite.exe, \sqlite3.exe
Product2eq 2SQLite
event.type1eq 1start
process.args1eq 1, wildcard 1--remote-debugging-port=922?, --window-position=-*,-*
process_name1eq 1chrome.exe, msedge.exe

Top indicator values (25 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
Imageends_with
\sqlite.exe
22
Imageends_with
\sqlite3.exe
22
Producteq
SQLite
22
CommandLinecontains
\chromiumviewer\
1
CommandLinecontains
\opera software\
1
CommandLinecontains
\user data\
1
CommandLinecontains
bookmarks
12
CommandLinecontains
cookies
12
CommandLinecontains
cookies.sqlite
12
CommandLinecontains
history
12
CommandLinecontains
login data
12
CommandLinecontains
places.sqlite
12
CommandLinecontains
web data
1
CommandLinewildcard
"C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --headless
1
CommandLinewildcard
"C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --headless...
1
CommandLinewildcard
"C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --headless --log-level=3
1
CommandLinewildcard
"C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --headless...
1
CommandLinewildcard
"C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"...
1
CommandLinewildcard
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe
1
CommandLinewildcard
C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe
1
event.typeeq
start
1241
process.argseq
--remote-debugging-port=922?
1
process.argswildcard
--window-position=-*,-*
1
process_nameeq
chrome.exe
16
process_nameeq
msedge.exe
13

Exclusions (7 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
ParentImagewildcard
c:\program files (x86)\*.exe
1
ParentImagewildcard
c:\program files\*.exe
1
ParentImagewildcard
c:\windows\explorer.exe
1
ParentImagewildcard
c:\windows\system32\rdpinit.exe
1
ParentImagewildcard
c:\windows\system32\runtimebroker.exe
1
ParentImagewildcard
c:\windows\system32\secocl64.exe
1
ParentImagewildcard
c:\windows\system32\sihost.exe
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.

Sigma 2 rules

Elastic 1 rule