Dump Credentials from Windows Credential Manager With PowerShell

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About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Adversaries may search for common password storage locations to obtain user credentials. Passwords are stored in several places on a system, depending on the operating system or application holding the credentials.

Severity

Trouble

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "PowerShell Script Block Logged" AND SCRIPTEXECUTED contains "Get-PasswordVaultCredentials,Get-CredManCreds" OR (SCRIPTEXECUTED contains "New-Object" AND SCRIPTEXECUTED contains "Windows.Security.Credentials.PasswordVault") OR (SCRIPTEXECUTED contains "New-Object" AND SCRIPTEXECUTED contains "Microsoft.CSharp.CSharpCodeProvider" AND SCRIPTEXECUTED contains "[System.Runtime.InteropServices.RuntimeEnvironment]::GetRuntimeDirectory())" AND SCRIPTEXECUTED contains "Collections.ArrayList" AND SCRIPTEXECUTED contains "System.CodeDom.Compiler.CompilerParameters") select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.SCRIPTEXECUTED

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

Windows

Author

frack113