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Potential LSASS Memory Dump via PssCaptureSnapShot

Author
Elastic
Source
upstream

Identifies suspicious access to an LSASS handle via PssCaptureSnapShot where two successive process accesses are performed by the same process and target two different instances of LSASS. This may indicate an attempt to evade detection and dump LSASS memory 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: threshold:kuery

event.category:"process" and winlog.event_data.TargetImage:("C:\\Windows\\system32\\lsass.exe" or "c:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe" or "c:\\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
event.categoryeq
  • process corpus 2 (elastic 2)
winlog.event_data.TargetImagein
  • C:\Windows\system32\lsass.exe
  • c:\Windows\System32\lsass.exe
  • c:\Windows\system32\lsass.exe