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Suspicious Key Manager Access

Severity
high
Author
Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
Source
upstream

Detects the invocation of the Stored User Names and Passwords dialogue (Key Manager)

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Credential AccessT1555.004 Credentials from Password Stores: Windows Credential Manager

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon1Process creation

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: all of selection_img

or:
Image|endswith: '\rundll32.exe'
OriginalFileName: RUNDLL32.EXE

Stage 2: all of selection_cli

CommandLine|contains: KRShowKeyMgr
CommandLine|contains: keymgr

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
  • KRShowKeyMgr
  • keymgr
Imageends_with
  • \rundll32.exe corpus 76 (sigma 76)
OriginalFileNameeq
  • RUNDLL32.EXE corpus 28 (sigma 25, splunk 3)