Extracting Information with PowerShell

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About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Adversaries may search local file systems and remote file shares for files containing insecurely stored credentials. These can be files created by users to store their own credentials, shared credential stores for a group of individuals, configuration files containing passwords for a system or service, or source code/binary files containing embedded passwords.

Severity

Trouble

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "PowerShell Script Block Logged" AND SCRIPTEXECUTED contains "ls" AND SCRIPTEXECUTED contains " -R" AND SCRIPTEXECUTED contains "select-string " AND SCRIPTEXECUTED contains "-Pattern " select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.SCRIPTEXECUTED

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

Windows

Author

frack113