Certificate Exported Via Certutil.EXE

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About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Detects the execution of the certutil with the "exportPFX" flag which allows the utility to export certificates.

Severity

Trouble

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND (PROCESSNAME endswith "\certutil.exe" OR ORIGINALFILENAME = "CertUtil.exe") AND COMMANDLINE contains "-exportPFX ,/exportPFX ,–exportPFX ,—exportPFX ,―exportPFX " select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.COMMANDLINE,Action1.FILE_NAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.USERNAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSNAME

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

Windows

Author

Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), Jonhnathan Ribeiro, oscd.community, Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)