Analytics Story: Credential Dumping

Date: 2020-02-04 ID: 854d78bf-d0e2-4f4e-b05c-640905f86d7a Author: Rico Valdez, Splunk Product: Splunk Enterprise Security

Description

Uncover activity consistent with credential dumping, a technique wherein attackers compromise systems and attempt to obtain and exfiltrate passwords. The threat actors use these pilfered credentials to further escalate privileges and spread throughout a target environment. The included searches in this Analytic Story are designed to identify attempts to credential dumping.

Why it matters

Credential dumpinggathering credentials from a target system, often hashed or encryptedis a common attack technique. Even though the credentials may not be in plain text, an attacker can still exfiltrate the data and set to cracking it offline, on their own systems. The threat actors target a variety of sources to extract them, including the Security Accounts Manager (SAM), Local Security Authority (LSA), NTDS from Domain Controllers, or the Group Policy Preference (GPP) files. Once attackers obtain valid credentials, they use them to move throughout a target network with ease, discovering new systems and identifying assets of interest. Credentials obtained in this manner typically include those of privileged users, which may provide access to more sensitive information and system operations. The detection searches in this Analytic Story monitor access to the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) process, the usage of shadowcopies for credential dumping and some other techniques for credential dumping.

Detections

Name ▲▼	Technique ▲▼	Type ▲▼
Access LSASS Memory for Dump Creation	LSASS Memory	TTP
Create Remote Thread into LSASS	LSASS Memory	TTP
Creation of lsass Dump with Taskmgr	LSASS Memory	TTP
Creation of Shadow Copy	NTDS	TTP
Creation of Shadow Copy with wmic and powershell	NTDS	TTP
Credential Dumping via Copy Command from Shadow Copy	NTDS	TTP
Credential Dumping via Symlink to Shadow Copy	NTDS	TTP
Detect Copy of ShadowCopy with Script Block Logging	Security Account Manager	TTP
Detect Credential Dumping through LSASS access	LSASS Memory	TTP
Dump LSASS via comsvcs DLL	LSASS Memory	TTP
Dump LSASS via procdump	LSASS Memory	TTP
Enable WDigest UseLogonCredential Registry	Modify Registry, OS Credential Dumping	TTP
Esentutl SAM Copy	Security Account Manager	Hunting
Ntdsutil Export NTDS	NTDS	TTP
Potential password in username	Local Accounts, Credentials In Files	Hunting
SAM Database File Access Attempt	Security Account Manager	Hunting
SecretDumps Offline NTDS Dumping Tool	NTDS	TTP
Set Default PowerShell Execution Policy To Unrestricted or Bypass	PowerShell	TTP
Windows AD Replication Request Initiated by User Account	DCSync	TTP
Windows AD Replication Request Initiated from Unsanctioned Location	DCSync	TTP
Windows Credential Dumping LSASS Memory Createdump	LSASS Memory	TTP
Windows Hunting System Account Targeting Lsass	LSASS Memory	Hunting
Windows Mimikatz Binary Execution	OS Credential Dumping	TTP
Windows Non-System Account Targeting Lsass	LSASS Memory	TTP
Windows Possible Credential Dumping	LSASS Memory	TTP
Windows Sensitive Registry Hive Dump Via CommandLine	Security Account Manager	TTP

Data Sources

Name ▲▼	Platform ▲▼	Sourcetype ▲▼	Source ▲▼
CrowdStrike ProcessRollup2	N/A	`crowdstrike:events:sensor`	`crowdstrike`
Linux Secure	Linux	`linux_secure`	`/var/log/secure`
Powershell Script Block Logging 4104	Windows	`xmlwineventlog`	`XmlWinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-PowerShell/Operational`
Sysmon EventID 1	Windows	`xmlwineventlog`	`XmlWinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational`
Sysmon EventID 10	Windows	`xmlwineventlog`	`XmlWinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational`
Sysmon EventID 11	Windows	`xmlwineventlog`	`XmlWinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational`
Sysmon EventID 12	Windows	`xmlwineventlog`	`XmlWinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational`
Sysmon EventID 13	Windows	`xmlwineventlog`	`XmlWinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational`
Sysmon EventID 8	Windows	`xmlwineventlog`	`XmlWinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational`
Windows Event Log Security 4624	Windows	`xmlwineventlog`	`XmlWinEventLog:Security`
Windows Event Log Security 4662	Windows	`xmlwineventlog`	`XmlWinEventLog:Security`
Windows Event Log Security 4663	Windows	`xmlwineventlog`	`XmlWinEventLog:Security`
Windows Event Log Security 4688	Windows	`xmlwineventlog`	`XmlWinEventLog:Security`

References

Source: GitHub | Version: 3