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Microsoft IIS Service Account Password Dumped

Severity
high
Author
Tim Rauch, Janantha Marasinghe, Elastic (original idea)
Source
upstream

Detects the Internet Information Services (IIS) command-line tool, AppCmd, being used to list passwords

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Credential AccessT1003 OS Credential Dumping

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon1Process creation

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: all of selection_base_name

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

Stage 2: all of selection_base_list

CommandLine|contains: 'list '

Stage 3: selection_standalone

or:
CommandLine|contains: ' -config'
CommandLine|contains: ' -xml'
CommandLine|contains: ' /config'
CommandLine|contains: ' /xml'

Stage 4: all of selection_cmd_flags

or:
CommandLine|contains: ' -@t'
CommandLine|contains: ' -show'
CommandLine|contains: ' -text'
CommandLine|contains: ' /@t'
CommandLine|contains: ' /show'
CommandLine|contains: ' /text'

Stage 5: all of selection_cmd_grep

or:
CommandLine|contains: ':\*'
CommandLine|contains: password

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
  • -@t
  • -config
  • -show
  • -text
  • -xml
  • /@t
  • /config
  • /show
  • /text
  • /xml
  • :\*
  • list
  • password
Imageends_with
  • \appcmd.exe corpus 4 (sigma 4)
OriginalFileNameeq
  • appcmd.exe corpus 4 (sigma 4)