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Active Rule
Credential Manager Access By Uncommon Applications
Target Profile
Splunk
Splunk SPL & tstats data model queries
Format Mode
Default
Plain SPL queries
Conversion Output
Credential Manager Access By Uncommon Applications
Using Splunk · Default · sigma-cli 2.0.2
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BackendSplunkFormatDefaultVersion2.0.2
title: Credential Manager Access By Uncommon Applications
id: 407aecb1-e762-4acf-8c7b-d087bcff3bb6
status: test
description: |
Detects suspicious processes based on name and location that access the windows credential manager and vault.
Which can be a sign of credential stealing. Example case would be usage of mimikatz "dpapi::cred" function
references:
- https://hunter2.gitbook.io/darthsidious/privilege-escalation/mimikatz
- https://www.absolomb.com/2018-01-26-Windows-Privilege-Escalation-Guide/
author: Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
date: 2022-10-11
modified: 2024-07-29
tags:
- attack.t1003
- attack.credential-access
logsource:
category: file_access
product: windows
definition: 'Requirements: Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-File ETW provider'
detection:
selection:
FileName|contains:
- '\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Credentials\'
- '\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Credentials\'
- '\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Vault\'
- '\ProgramData\Microsoft\Vault\'
filter_system_folders:
Image|startswith:
- 'C:\Program Files\'
- 'C:\Program Files (x86)\'
- 'C:\Windows\system32\'
- 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\'
condition: selection and not 1 of filter_*
falsepositives:
- Legitimate software installed by the users for example in the "AppData" directory may access these files (for any reason).
# Increase level after false positives filters are good enough
level: medium
CLI command
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sigma convert --without-pipeline -t splunk -f default rules/windows/file/file_access/file_access_win_susp_credential_manager_access.yml