Remote Thread Creation In Mstsc.Exe From Suspicious Location

 1title: Remote Thread Creation In Mstsc.Exe From Suspicious Location
 2id: c0aac16a-b1e7-4330-bab0-3c27bb4987c7
 3status: experimental
 4description: |
 5    Detects remote thread creation in the "mstsc.exe" process by a process located in a potentially suspicious location.
 6    This technique is often used by attackers in order to hook some APIs used by DLLs loaded by "mstsc.exe" during RDP authentications in order to steal credentials.    
 7references:
 8    - https://github.com/S12cybersecurity/RDPCredentialStealer/blob/1b8947cdd065a06c1b62e80967d3c7af895fcfed/APIHookInjectorBin/APIHookInjectorBin/Inject.h#L25
 9author: Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
10date: 2023/07/28
11modified: 2024/01/22
12tags:
13    - attack.credential_access
14logsource:
15    product: windows
16    category: create_remote_thread
17detection:
18    selection:
19        TargetImage|endswith: '\mstsc.exe'
20        SourceImage|contains:
21            - ':\Temp\'
22            - ':\Users\Public\'
23            - ':\Windows\PerfLogs\'
24            - ':\Windows\Tasks\'
25            - ':\Windows\Temp\'
26            - '\AppData\Local\Temp\'
27    condition: selection
28falsepositives:
29    - Unknown
30level: high