Lateral Movement Pssession

Description

Manually using PowerShell to start an interactive session on a remote endpoint leveraging the WinRM protocol for lateral movement and remote code execution.

MITRE ATT&CK Techniques

ID Technique Tactic
T1021.006 Windows Remote Management Lateral Movement

Environment Details

Field Value
Environment attack_range
Directory lateral_movement_pssession
Test Date 2021-11-18

Datasets

The following datasets were collected during this attack simulation:

Windows-Powershell-Xml

  • Path: /datasets/attack_techniques/T1021.006/lateral_movement_pssession/windows-powershell-xml.log
  • Sourcetype: XmlWinEventLog
  • Source: XmlWinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-PowerShell/Operational

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

Detection Name Type Source MITRE ATT&CK Analytic Story
Interactive Session on Remote Endpoint with PowerShell TTP Endpoint T1021.006 Active Directory Lateral Movement

Usage Instructions

Replay with Splunk Attack Data

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

1python replay.py --dataset /datasets/attack_techniques/T1021.006/lateral_movement_pssession/windows-powershell-xml.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

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


Source: GitHub | Version: 1.0