Potential Network Sniffing Activity Using Network Tools
Detects potential network sniffing via use of network tools such as "tshark", "windump". Network sniffing refers to using the network interface on a system to monitor or capture information sent over a wired or wireless connection. An adversary may place a network interface into promiscuous mode to passively access data in transit over the network, or use span ports to capture a larger amount of data.
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1title: Potential Network Sniffing Activity Using Network Tools
2id: ba1f7802-adc7-48b4-9ecb-81e227fddfd5
3status: test
4description: |
5 Detects potential network sniffing via use of network tools such as "tshark", "windump".
6 Network sniffing refers to using the network interface on a system to monitor or capture information sent over a wired or wireless connection.
7 An adversary may place a network interface into promiscuous mode to passively access data in transit over the network, or use span ports to capture a larger amount of data.
8references:
9 - https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/f339e7da7d05f6057fdfcdd3742bfcf365fee2a9/atomics/T1040/T1040.md
10author: Timur Zinniatullin, oscd.community, Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
11date: 2019-10-21
12modified: 2023-02-20
13tags:
14 - attack.credential-access
15 - attack.discovery
16 - attack.t1040
17logsource:
18 category: process_creation
19 product: windows
20detection:
21 selection_tshark:
22 Image|endswith: '\tshark.exe'
23 CommandLine|contains: '-i'
24 selection_windump:
25 Image|endswith: '\windump.exe'
26 condition: 1 of selection_*
27falsepositives:
28 - Legitimate administration activity to troubleshoot network issues
29level: medium
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