Extracting Information with PowerShell

Adversaries may search local file systems and remote file shares for files containing insecurely stored credentials. These can be files created by users to store their own credentials, shared credential stores for a group of individuals, configuration files containing passwords for a system or service, or source code/binary files containing embedded passwords.

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 1title: Extracting Information with PowerShell
 2id: bd5971a7-626d-46ab-8176-ed643f694f68
 3status: test
 4description: |
 5    Adversaries may search local file systems and remote file shares for files containing insecurely stored credentials.
 6    These can be files created by users to store their own credentials, shared credential stores for a group of individuals,
 7    configuration files containing passwords for a system or service, or source code/binary files containing embedded passwords.    
 8references:
 9    - https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/f339e7da7d05f6057fdfcdd3742bfcf365fee2a9/atomics/T1552.001/T1552.001.md
10author: frack113
11date: 2021-12-19
12modified: 2022-12-25
13tags:
14    - attack.credential-access
15    - attack.t1552.001
16logsource:
17    product: windows
18    category: ps_script
19    definition: 'Requirements: Script Block Logging must be enabled'
20detection:
21    selection:
22        ScriptBlockText|contains|all:
23            - ls
24            - ' -R'
25            - 'select-string '
26            - '-Pattern '
27    condition: selection
28falsepositives:
29    - Unknown
30level: medium

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