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Password Dumper Activity on LSASS — Sigma Rule

Sigma rule aa1697b7-d611-4f9a-9cb2-5125b4ccfd5c. Password Dumper Activity on LSASS — Sigma Rule. Detects process handle on LSASS process with certain access mask and object type SAM_DOMAIN

Rule metadata and linked tags

Author: sigma. Source status: test; severity: high. Source dates: 2017-02-12 / 2022-10-09.

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

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Source SHA-256: 3f63d0b3096e548a2b7ea989947f21d438a25d66f4d2ef46298911227ccad7de

Detection logic

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title: Password Dumper Activity on LSASS
id: aa1697b7-d611-4f9a-9cb2-5125b4ccfd5c
status: test
description: Detects process handle on LSASS process with certain access mask and object type SAM_DOMAIN
references:
    - https://twitter.com/jackcr/status/807385668833968128
author: sigma
date: 2017-02-12
modified: 2022-10-09
tags:
    - attack.credential-access
    - attack.t1003.001
logsource:
    product: windows
    service: security
detection:
    selection:
        EventID: 4656
        ProcessName|endswith: '\lsass.exe'
        AccessMask: '0x705'
        ObjectType: 'SAM_DOMAIN'
    condition: selection
falsepositives:
    - Unknown
level: high

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  • Unknown

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