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Copy From VolumeShadowCopy Via Cmd.EXE

Severity
high
Author
Max Altgelt (Nextron Systems), Tobias Michalski (Nextron Systems)
Source
upstream

Detects the execution of the builtin "copy" command that targets a shadow copy (sometimes used to copy registry hives that are in use)

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
ImpactT1490 Inhibit System Recovery

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon1Process creation
Security-Auditing4688A new process has been created.

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

CommandLine|contains: '\\\\\?\\GLOBALROOT\\Device\\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy'
CommandLine|contains: 'copy '

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
CommandLinematch
  • \\\\\?\\GLOBALROOT\\Device\\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy corpus 2 (sigma 2)
  • copy corpus 11 (sigma 11)

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