Potential Credential Dumping Via LSASS Process Clone

Severity: critical
Author: Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), Samir Bousseaden
Source: upstream

Detects a suspicious LSASS process process clone that could be a sign of credential dumping activity

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Tactic	Techniques
Credential Access	`T1003` OS Credential Dumping, `T1003.001` OS Credential Dumping: LSASS Memory

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`

Image|endswith: '\Windows\System32\lsass.exe'
ParentImage|endswith: '\Windows\System32\lsass.exe'

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.