HackTool - Pypykatz Credentials Dumping Activity

Severity: high
Author: frack113
Source: upstream

Detects the usage of "pypykatz" to obtain stored credentials. Adversaries may attempt to extract credential material from the Security Account Manager (SAM) database through Windows registry where the SAM database is stored

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Tactic	Techniques
Credential Access	`T1003.002` OS Credential Dumping: Security Account Manager

Event coverage

Provider	Event ID	Title
Sysmon	1	Process creation
Security-Auditing	4688	A new process has been created.

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: `selection`

or:
Image|endswith: '\pypykatz.exe'
Image|endswith: '\python.exe'
CommandLine|contains: live
CommandLine|contains: registry

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.