Zerologon Exploitation Using Well-known Tools — Sigma Rule

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Author: Demyan Sokolin @_drd0c, Teymur Kheirkhabarov @HeirhabarovT, oscd.community. Source status: stable; severity: critical. Source dates: 2020-10-13 / 2021-05-30.

{
  "service": "system",
  "product": "windows"
}

Pinned original Sigma rule · Detection Rule License 1.1

Source SHA-256: 01280cfdc62932dbfb15688746e728686ed578ffbd98606a7d6ecf2c03c9649e

Detection logic

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title: Zerologon Exploitation Using Well-known Tools
id: 18f37338-b9bd-4117-a039-280c81f7a596
status: stable
description: This rule is designed to detect attempts to exploit Zerologon (CVE-2020-1472) vulnerability using mimikatz zerologon module or other exploits from machine with "kali" hostname.
references:
    - https://www.secura.com/blog/zero-logon
    - https://bi-zone.medium.com/hunting-for-zerologon-f65c61586382
author: 'Demyan Sokolin @_drd0c, Teymur Kheirkhabarov @HeirhabarovT, oscd.community'
date: 2020-10-13
modified: 2021-05-30
tags:
    - attack.t1210
    - attack.lateral-movement
logsource:
    service: system
    product: windows
detection:
    selection:
        EventID:
            - 5805
            - 5723
    keywords:
        - kali
        - mimikatz
    condition: selection and keywords
level: critical

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False positives

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Source references

• https://www.secura.com/blog/zero-logon
• https://bi-zone.medium.com/hunting-for-zerologon-f65c61586382