Access To Chromium Browsers Sensitive Files By Uncommon Applications

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About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Detects file access requests to chromium based browser sensitive files by uncommon processes. Could indicate potential attempt of stealing sensitive information.

Severity

Attention

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "File Created or Modified" AND (FILENAME contains "\User Data\Default\Cookies,\User Data\Default\History,\User Data\Default\Network\Cookies,\User Data\Default\Web Data" OR OBJECTNAME contains "\User Data\Default\Cookies,\User Data\Default\History,\User Data\Default\Network\Cookies,\User Data\Default\Web Data") AND (PROCESSNAME != "System" AND PROCESSNAME notstartswith "C:\Program Files (x86)\,C:\Program Files\,C:\Windows\system32\,C:\Windows\SysWOW64") AND (PROCESSNAME notstartswith "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Defender" OR PROCESSNAME notendswith "\MpCopyAccelerator.exe,\MsMpEng.exe") select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.USERNAME,Action1.DOMAIN,Action1.OBJECTNAME,Action1.FILENAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

Windows

Author

X__Junior (Nextron Systems)