Detection rules › Sigma

Remote LSASS Process Access Through Windows Remote Management

Severity
high
Author
Patryk Prauze - ING Tech
Source
upstream

Detects remote access to the LSASS process via WinRM. This could be a sign of credential dumping from tools like mimikatz.

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
ExecutionT1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
Credential AccessT1003.001 OS Credential Dumping: LSASS Memory
Lateral MovementT1021.006 Remote Services: Windows Remote Management

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon10ProcessAccess

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

SourceImage|endswith: ':\Windows\system32\wsmprovhost.exe'
TargetImage|endswith: '\lsass.exe'

Stage 2: not 1 of filter_main_access

GrantedAccess: 0x80000000

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
GrantedAccesseq
  • 0x80000000
SourceImageends_with
  • :\Windows\system32\wsmprovhost.exe
TargetImageends_with
  • \lsass.exe corpus 13 (sigma 13)

Neighbors

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