Detection rules › Sigma

PUA - WebBrowserPassView Execution

Severity
medium
Author
frack113
Source
upstream

Detects the execution of WebBrowserPassView.exe. A password recovery tool that reveals the passwords stored by the following Web browsers, Internet Explorer (Version 4.0 - 11.0), Mozilla Firefox (All Versions), Google Chrome, Safari, and Opera

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Credential AccessT1555.003 Credentials from Password Stores: Credentials from Web Browsers

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon1Process creation

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

or:
Description: 'Web Browser Password Viewer'
Image|endswith: '\WebBrowserPassView.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.

FieldKindValues
Descriptioneq
  • Web Browser Password Viewer
Imageends_with
  • \WebBrowserPassView.exe