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Suspicious LSASS Access via MalSecLogon

Author
Elastic
Source
upstream

Identifies suspicious access to LSASS handle from a call trace pointing to seclogon.dll and with a suspicious access rights value. This may indicate an attempt to leak an LSASS handle via abusing the Secondary Logon service in preparation for credential access.

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Credential AccessT1003 OS Credential Dumping, T1003.001 OS Credential Dumping: LSASS Memory

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon10ProcessAccess

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: eql:process

process.name:"svchost.exe" and winlog.event_data.CallTrace:"seclogon.dll" and winlog.event_data.GrantedAccess:0x14c0 and winlog.event_data.TargetImage:"?:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\lsass.exe"

Indicators

Each row is a field, operator, and value that the rule matches. The corpus column counts how many other rules in the catalog look for the same combination: high numbers point to widely-used, community-vetted indicators. Blank or 1 shows that the indicator is specific to this rule.

FieldKindValues
process.namewildcard
  • svchost.exe
winlog.event_data.CallTracewildcard
  • *seclogon.dll*
winlog.event_data.GrantedAccesseq
  • 0x14c0 corpus 2 (sigma 1, elastic 1)
winlog.event_data.TargetImagewildcard
  • ?:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe corpus 4 (elastic 4)