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Lateral Movement

Date: 2021-11-12 ID: 1ccc911f-a49b-4dc9-903a-0ae2c67b0475 Author: Mauricio Velazco Environment: attack_range Directory: lateral_movement

Description

Manually using the sc.exe binary to create and start a Windows Service on a remote endpoint for lateral movement and remote code execution.

MITRE ATT&CK Techniques

ID Technique Tactic
T1543.003 Windows Service Persistence, Privilege Escalation

Environment Details

Field Value
Environment attack_range
Directory lateral_movement
Test Date 2021-11-12

Datasets

The following datasets were collected during this attack simulation:

Windows-Sysmon

  • Path: /datasets/attack_techniques/T1543.003/lateral_movement/windows-sysmon.log
  • Sourcetype: XmlWinEventLog
  • Source: XmlWinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational

The following detections in our security content repository use this attack data for testing:

Detection Name Type Source MITRE ATT&CK Analytic Story
Windows Service Creation on Remote Endpoint TTP Endpoint T1543.003 China-Nexus Threat Activity, CISA AA23-347A, SnappyBee, Salt Typhoon, Active Directory Lateral Movement
Windows Service Initiation on Remote Endpoint TTP Endpoint T1543.003 Active Directory Lateral Movement, CISA AA23-347A

Usage Instructions

Replay with Splunk Attack Data

Replay attack data with replay.py from Splunk Attack Data.

1python replay.py --dataset /datasets/attack_techniques/T1543.003/lateral_movement/windows-sysmon.log --index attack_data

Manual Import

  1. Download the dataset files from the paths listed above
  2. Configure your Splunk instance with the appropriate sourcetypes
  3. Import the logs using the Splunk Add Data wizard

Related Content

Find more detections and analytics for this attack technique in our security content repository.

Source: GitHub | Version: 1.0