HackTool - Generic Process Access

  1title: HackTool - Generic Process Access
  2id: d0d2f720-d14f-448d-8242-51ff396a334e
  3status: experimental
  4description: Detects process access requests from hacktool processes based on their default image name
  5references:
  6    - https://jsecurity101.medium.com/bypassing-access-mask-auditing-strategies-480fb641c158
  7    - https://www.splunk.com/en_us/blog/security/you-bet-your-lsass-hunting-lsass-access.html
  8author: Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems), Swachchhanda Shrawan Poudel
  9date: 2023/11/27
 10tags:
 11    - attack.credential_access
 12    - attack.t1003.001
 13    - attack.s0002
 14logsource:
 15    category: process_access
 16    product: windows
 17detection:
 18    selection:
 19        - SourceImage|endswith:
 20              - '\Akagi.exe'
 21              - '\Akagi64.exe'
 22              - '\atexec_windows.exe'
 23              - '\Certify.exe'
 24              - '\Certipy.exe'
 25              - '\CoercedPotato.exe'
 26              - '\crackmapexec.exe'
 27              - '\CreateMiniDump.exe'
 28              - '\dcomexec_windows.exe'
 29              - '\dpapi_windows.exe'
 30              - '\findDelegation_windows.exe'
 31              - '\GetADUsers_windows.exe'
 32              - '\GetNPUsers_windows.exe'
 33              - '\getPac_windows.exe'
 34              - '\getST_windows.exe'
 35              - '\getTGT_windows.exe'
 36              - '\GetUserSPNs_windows.exe'
 37              - '\gmer.exe'
 38              - '\hashcat.exe'
 39              - '\htran.exe'
 40              - '\ifmap_windows.exe'
 41              - '\impersonate.exe'
 42              - '\Inveigh.exe'
 43              - '\LocalPotato.exe'
 44              - '\mimikatz_windows.exe'
 45              - '\mimikatz.exe'
 46              - '\netview_windows.exe'
 47              - '\nmapAnswerMachine_windows.exe'
 48              - '\opdump_windows.exe'
 49              - '\PasswordDump.exe'
 50              - '\Potato.exe'
 51              - '\PowerTool.exe'
 52              - '\PowerTool64.exe'
 53              - '\psexec_windows.exe'
 54              - '\PurpleSharp.exe'
 55              - '\pypykatz.exe'
 56              - '\QuarksPwDump.exe'
 57              - '\rdp_check_windows.exe'
 58              - '\Rubeus.exe'
 59              - '\SafetyKatz.exe'
 60              - '\sambaPipe_windows.exe'
 61              - '\SelectMyParent.exe'
 62              - '\SharpChisel.exe'
 63              - '\SharPersist.exe'
 64              - '\SharpEvtMute.exe'
 65              - '\SharpImpersonation.exe'
 66              - '\SharpLDAPmonitor.exe'
 67              - '\SharpLdapWhoami.exe'
 68              - '\SharpUp.exe'
 69              - '\SharpView.exe'
 70              - '\smbclient_windows.exe'
 71              - '\smbserver_windows.exe'
 72              - '\sniff_windows.exe'
 73              - '\sniffer_windows.exe'
 74              - '\split_windows.exe'
 75              - '\SpoolSample.exe'
 76              - '\Stracciatella.exe'
 77              - '\SysmonEOP.exe'
 78              - '\temp\rot.exe'
 79              - '\ticketer_windows.exe'
 80              - '\TruffleSnout.exe'
 81              - '\winPEASany_ofs.exe'
 82              - '\winPEASany.exe'
 83              - '\winPEASx64_ofs.exe'
 84              - '\winPEASx64.exe'
 85              - '\winPEASx86_ofs.exe'
 86              - '\winPEASx86.exe'
 87              - '\xordump.exe'
 88        - SourceImage|contains:
 89              - '\goldenPac'
 90              - '\just_dce_'
 91              - '\karmaSMB'
 92              - '\kintercept'
 93              - '\LocalPotato'
 94              - '\ntlmrelayx'
 95              - '\rpcdump'
 96              - '\samrdump'
 97              - '\secretsdump'
 98              - '\smbexec'
 99              - '\smbrelayx'
100              - '\wmiexec'
101              - '\wmipersist'
102              - 'HotPotato'
103              - 'Juicy Potato'
104              - 'JuicyPotato'
105              - 'PetitPotam'
106              - 'RottenPotato'
107    condition: selection
108falsepositives:
109    - Unlikely
110level: high