Atomic Red Team

Description

Atomic Red Team test results of T1140, certutil.exe decode. Also included Invoke-CertUtil decoding files.

MITRE ATT&CK Techniques

ID Technique Tactic
T1140 Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information Defense Evasion

Environment Details

Field Value
Environment attack_range
Directory atomic_red_team
Test Date 2021-03-25

Datasets

The following datasets were collected during this attack simulation:

Windows-Sysmon

  • Path: /datasets/attack_techniques/T1140/atomic_red_team/windows-sysmon.log
  • Sourcetype: XmlWinEventLog
  • Source: XmlWinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational

Expand_windows-Sysmon

  • Path: /datasets/attack_techniques/T1140/atomic_red_team/expand_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 Cabinet File Extraction Via Expand TTP Endpoint T1105 APT37 Rustonotto and FadeStealer
CertUtil With Decode Argument TTP Endpoint T1140 Deobfuscate-Decode Files or Information, Living Off The Land, Forest Blizzard, APT29 Diplomatic Deceptions with WINELOADER, Storm-2460 CLFS Zero Day Exploitation, GhostRedirector IIS Module and Rungan Backdoor

Usage Instructions

Replay with Splunk Attack Data

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

1python replay.py --dataset /datasets/attack_techniques/T1140/atomic_red_team/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

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


Source: GitHub | Version: 1.0