Enumeration for Credentials in Registry
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About the rule
Rule Type
Standard
Rule Description
Adversaries may search the Registry on compromised systems for insecurely stored credentials. The Windows Registry stores configuration information that can be used by the system or other programs. Adversaries may query the Registry looking for credentials and passwords that have been stored for use by other programs or services
Severity
Trouble
Rule Requirement
Criteria
Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND (PROCESSNAME endswith "\reg.exe" AND (COMMANDLINE contains " query " AND COMMANDLINE contains "/t " AND COMMANDLINE contains "REG_SZ" AND COMMANDLINE contains "/s")) AND ((COMMANDLINE contains "/f " AND COMMANDLINE contains "HKLM") OR (COMMANDLINE contains "/f " AND COMMANDLINE contains "HKCU") OR COMMANDLINE contains "HKCU\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\Sessions") select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.COMMANDLINE,Action1.FILE_NAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.USERNAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSNAME
Detection
Execution Mode
realtime
Log Sources
Windows
Author
frack113
