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HackTool - HandleKatz Duplicating LSASS Handle

Severity
high
Author
Bhabesh Raj (rule), @thefLinkk
Source
upstream

Detects HandleKatz opening LSASS to duplicate its handle to later dump the memory without opening any new handles

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
ExecutionT1106 Native API
Credential AccessT1003.001 OS Credential Dumping: LSASS Memory

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon10ProcessAccess

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

CallTrace|endswith: ')'
CallTrace|contains: '|UNKNOWN('
CallTrace|startswith: 'C:\Windows\System32\ntdll.dll+'
GrantedAccess: 0x1440
TargetImage|endswith: '\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
CallTraceends_with
  • )
CallTracematch
  • |UNKNOWN( corpus 2 (sigma 2)
CallTracestarts_with
  • C:\Windows\System32\ntdll.dll+
GrantedAccesseq
  • 0x1440
TargetImageends_with
  • \lsass.exe corpus 13 (sigma 13)

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