Atomic Red Team

Description

Invoked T1218.002 From Atomic Red Team simulating control.exe behavior

MITRE ATT&CK Techniques

ID Technique Tactic
T1218.002 Control Panel Defense Evasion

Environment Details

Field Value
Environment attack_range
Directory atomic_red_team
Test Date 2021-09-08

Datasets

The following datasets were collected during this attack simulation:

Windows-Sysmon

  • Path: /datasets/attack_techniques/T1218.002/atomic_red_team/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
Rundll32 Control RunDLL Hunt Hunting Endpoint T1218.011 Suspicious Rundll32 Activity, Microsoft MSHTML Remote Code Execution CVE-2021-40444, Living Off The Land
Control Loading from World Writable Directory TTP Endpoint T1218.002 Microsoft MSHTML Remote Code Execution CVE-2021-40444, Living Off The Land, Compromised Windows Host
Rundll32 Control RunDLL World Writable Directory TTP Endpoint T1218.011 Microsoft MSHTML Remote Code Execution CVE-2021-40444, Suspicious Rundll32 Activity, Living Off The Land, Compromised Windows Host

Usage Instructions

Replay with Splunk Attack Data

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

1python replay.py --dataset /datasets/attack_techniques/T1218.002/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