Detection rules › Sigma

Copying Sensitive Files with Credential Data

Severity
high
Author
Teymur Kheirkhabarov, Daniil Yugoslavskiy, oscd.community
Source
upstream

Files with well-known filenames (sensitive files with credential data) copying

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Credential AccessT1003.002 OS Credential Dumping: Security Account Manager, T1003.003 OS Credential Dumping: NTDS

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon1Process creation

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: all of selection_esent_img

or:
Image|endswith: '\esentutl.exe'
OriginalFileName: '\esentutl.exe'

Stage 2: all of selection_esent_cli

or:
CommandLine|contains: ' /m '
CommandLine|contains: ' /y '
CommandLine|contains: vss

Stage 3: selection_susp_paths

or:
CommandLine|contains: '\config\RegBack\sam'
CommandLine|contains: '\config\RegBack\security'
CommandLine|contains: '\config\RegBack\system'
CommandLine|contains: '\config\sam'
CommandLine|contains: '\config\security'
CommandLine|contains: '\config\system '
CommandLine|contains: '\repair\sam'
CommandLine|contains: '\repair\security'
CommandLine|contains: '\repair\system'
CommandLine|contains: '\windows\ntds\ntds.dit'

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
  • /m
  • /y corpus 2 (sigma 2)
  • \config\RegBack\sam
  • \config\RegBack\security
  • \config\RegBack\system
  • \config\sam
  • \config\security
  • \config\system
  • \repair\sam
  • \repair\security
  • \repair\system
  • \windows\ntds\ntds.dit corpus 2 (sigma 2)
  • vss
Imageends_with
  • \esentutl.exe corpus 8 (sigma 8)
OriginalFileNameeq
  • \esentutl.exe