Detection rules › Sigma

Harvesting Of Wifi Credentials Via Netsh.EXE

Severity
medium
Author
Andreas Hunkeler (@Karneades), oscd.community
Source
upstream

Detect the harvesting of wifi credentials using netsh.exe

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Credential AccessT1040 Network Sniffing
DiscoveryT1040 Network Sniffing

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon1Process creation

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: all of selection_img

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

Stage 2: all of selection_cli

CommandLine|contains: ' k'
CommandLine|contains: ' p'
CommandLine|contains: ' s'
CommandLine|contains: '=clear'
CommandLine|contains: wlan

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
  • k
  • p corpus 2 (sigma 2)
  • s
  • =clear
  • wlan
Imageends_with
  • \netsh.exe corpus 16 (sigma 16)
OriginalFileNameeq
  • netsh.exe corpus 14 (sigma 14)