VSSAudit Security Event Source Registration

 1title: VSSAudit Security Event Source Registration
 2id: e9faba72-4974-4ab2-a4c5-46e25ad59e9b
 3status: test
 4description: Detects the registration of the security event source VSSAudit. It would usually trigger when volume shadow copy operations happen.
 5references:
 6    - https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/f339e7da7d05f6057fdfcdd3742bfcf365fee2a9/atomics/T1003.002/T1003.002.md#atomic-test-3---esentutlexe-sam-copy
 7author: Roberto Rodriguez @Cyb3rWard0g, Open Threat Research (OTR)
 8date: 2020-10-20
 9modified: 2022-04-28
10tags:
11    - attack.credential-access
12    - attack.t1003.002
13logsource:
14    product: windows
15    service: security
16detection:
17    selection:
18        AuditSourceName: VSSAudit
19        EventID:
20            - 4904
21            - 4905
22    condition: selection
23falsepositives:
24    - Legitimate use of VSSVC. Maybe backup operations. It would usually be done by C:\Windows\System32\VSSVC.exe.
25level: informational