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Atomic Red Team

Date: 2021-03-01 ID: cc9b2647-efc9-11eb-926b-550bf0943fbb Author: Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell Environment: attack_range Directory: atomic_red_team

Description

Invoke-atomictest T1059.001 of all Atomic Red Team T1059.001 PowerShell tests.

MITRE ATT&CK Techniques

ID Technique Tactic
T1059.001 PowerShell Execution

Environment Details

Field Value
Environment attack_range
Directory atomic_red_team
Test Date 2021-03-01

Datasets

The following datasets were collected during this attack simulation:

Captcha_windows-Sysmon

  • Path: /datasets/attack_techniques/T1059.001/atomic_red_team/captcha_windows-sysmon.log
  • Sourcetype: XmlWinEventLog
  • Source: XmlWinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational

Get_ciminstance_windows-Powershell

  • Path: /datasets/attack_techniques/T1059.001/atomic_red_team/get_ciminstance_windows-powershell.log
  • Sourcetype: XmlWinEventLog
  • Source: XmlWinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-PowerShell/Operational

Start_stop_service_windows-Powershell

  • Path: /datasets/attack_techniques/T1059.001/atomic_red_team/start_stop_service_windows-powershell.log
  • Sourcetype: XmlWinEventLog
  • Source: XmlWinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-PowerShell/Operational

Windows-Security-2

  • Path: /datasets/attack_techniques/T1059.001/atomic_red_team/windows-security-2.log
  • Sourcetype: XmlWinEventLog
  • Source: XmlWinEventLog:Security

4104-Psremoting-Windows-Powershell

  • Path: /datasets/attack_techniques/T1059.001/atomic_red_team/4104-psremoting-windows-powershell.log
  • Sourcetype: XmlWinEventLog
  • Source: XmlWinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-PowerShell/Operational

Win32_scheduledjob_windows-Powershell

  • Path: /datasets/attack_techniques/T1059.001/atomic_red_team/win32_scheduledjob_windows-powershell.log
  • Sourcetype: XmlWinEventLog
  • Source: XmlWinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-PowerShell/Operational

Enableat_windows-Sysmon

  • Path: /datasets/attack_techniques/T1059.001/atomic_red_team/enableat_windows-sysmon.log
  • Sourcetype: XmlWinEventLog
  • Source: XmlWinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational

Windows-Sysmon

  • Path: /datasets/attack_techniques/T1059.001/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
Windows PowerShell WMI Win32 ScheduledJob TTP Endpoint T1059.001 Active Directory Lateral Movement
Windows PowerShell FakeCAPTCHA Clipboard Execution TTP Endpoint T1059.001, T1204.001, T1059.003 Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters, Fake CAPTCHA Campaigns, Cisco Network Visibility Module Analytics, Interlock Ransomware, NetSupport RMM Tool Abuse
PowerShell Enable PowerShell Remoting Anomaly Endpoint T1059.001 Malicious PowerShell
Windows Enable Win32 ScheduledJob via Registry Anomaly Endpoint T1053.005 Active Directory Lateral Movement, Scheduled Tasks
Windows PowerShell Invoke-RestMethod IP Information Collection Anomaly Endpoint T1082, T1016, T1059.001 Water Gamayun
Windows PowerShell Get CIMInstance Remote Computer Anomaly Endpoint T1059.001 Active Directory Lateral Movement
Windows File Download Via PowerShell Anomaly Endpoint T1059.001, T1105 APT37 Rustonotto and FadeStealer, Cisco Network Visibility Module Analytics, Data Destruction, GhostRedirector IIS Module and Rungan Backdoor, HAFNIUM Group, Hermetic Wiper, IcedID, Ingress Tool Transfer, Malicious PowerShell, Microsoft WSUS CVE-2025-59287, NetSupport RMM Tool Abuse, NPM Supply Chain Compromise, Phemedrone Stealer, PHP-CGI RCE Attack on Japanese Organizations, SysAid On-Prem Software CVE-2023-47246 Vulnerability, Winter Vivern, XWorm, Tuoni
Nishang PowershellTCPOneLine TTP Endpoint T1059.001 HAFNIUM Group, Cleo File Transfer Software
PowerShell Start or Stop Service Anomaly Endpoint T1059.001 Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters, 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/T1059.001/atomic_red_team/captcha_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