Registry Export of Third-Party Credentials

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About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Detects reg.exe exporting registry paths containing third-party credentials?behavior seen in credential-stealing tools.

Severity

Trouble

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND ( PROCESSNAME endswith "\reg.exe" OR ORIGINALFILENAME = "reg.exe" ) AND ( COMMANDLINE contains "save,export" ) AND ( COMMANDLINE contains "\Software\Aerofox\Foxmail\V3.1,\Software\Aerofox\FoxmailPreview,\Software\DownloadManager\Passwords,\Software\FTPWare\COREFTP\Sites,\Software\IncrediMail\Identities,\Software\Martin Prikryl\WinSCP 2\Sessions,\Software\Mobatek\MobaXterm,\Software\OpenSSH\Agent\Keys" OR COMMANDLINE contains "\Software\OpenVPNGUI\configs,\Software\ORL\WinVNC3\Password,\Software\Qualcomm\Eudora\CommandLine,\Software\RealVNC\WinVNC4,\Software\RimArts\B2\Settings,\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\Sessions,\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\SshHostKeys,\Software\Sota\FFFTP,\Software\TightVNC\Server,\Software\WOW6432Node\Radmin\v3.0\Server\Parameters\Radmin" ) select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.COMMANDLINE,Action1.FILE_NAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.USERNAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSNAME,Action1.DOMAIN,Action1.ORIGINALFILENAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSID,Action1.PROCESSID,Action1.PRODUCT_NAME,Action1.SECURITYID

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

Windows

Author

@Swachchhanda Shrawan Poudel (Nextron Systems)