Detection rules › Sigma

Unsigned or Unencrypted SMB Connection to Share Established

Severity
medium
Author
Mohamed Abdelghani
Source
upstream

Detects SMB server connections to shares without signing or encryption enabled. This could indicate potential lateral movement activity using unsecured SMB shares.

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Lateral MovementT1021.002 Remote Services: SMB/Windows Admin Shares

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
SMBServer4000

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: all of selection_shares

or:
ShareName|contains: 'ADMIN$'
ShareName|contains: 'C$'
ShareName|contains: 'IPC$'

Stage 2: all of selection_status

or:
EncyptionUsed: false
SigningUsed: false

Stage 3: not 1 of filter_main_local_ips

or:
ClientAddress|cidr: '127.0.0.0/8'
ClientAddress|cidr: '169.254.0.0/16'
ClientAddress|cidr: '::1/128'
ClientAddress|cidr: 'fc00::/7'
ClientAddress|cidr: 'fe80::/10'
ClientAddress|contains: 00000000000000000000000000000001
ClientAddress|contains: '0200????7F'
ClientAddress|contains: '0200????A9FE'
ClientAddress|contains: FC00000000000000
ClientAddress|contains: FE80000000000000

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
ClientAddresscidr_match
  • 127.0.0.0/8 corpus 4 (sigma 4)
  • 169.254.0.0/16 corpus 4 (sigma 4)
  • ::1/128 corpus 4 (sigma 4)
  • fc00::/7 corpus 4 (sigma 4)
  • fe80::/10 corpus 4 (sigma 4)
ClientAddressmatch
  • 00000000000000000000000000000001
  • 0200????7F
  • 0200????A9FE
  • FC00000000000000
  • FE80000000000000
EncyptionUsedeq
  • false
ShareNamematch
  • ADMIN$
  • C$
  • IPC$
SigningUsedeq
  • false