HackTool - Typical HiveNightmare SAM File Export

Severity: high
Author: Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
Source: upstream

Detects files written by the different tools that exploit HiveNightmare

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Tactic	Techniques
Credential Access	`T1552.001` Unsecured Credentials: Credentials In Files

Event coverage

Provider	Event ID	Title
Sysmon	11	FileCreate

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: `selection`

or:
TargetFilename: 'C:\windows\temp\sam'
TargetFilename|contains: '\SAM-2021-'
TargetFilename|contains: '\SAM-2022-'
TargetFilename|contains: '\SAM-2023-'
TargetFilename|contains: '\SAM-haxx'
TargetFilename|contains: '\Sam.save'
TargetFilename|contains: '\hive_sam_'

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.