Potential Reconnaissance For Cached Credentials Via Cmdkey.EXE

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About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Detects usage of cmdkey to look for cached credentials on the system

Severity

Trouble

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND (PROCESSNAME endswith "\cmdkey.exe" OR ORIGINALFILENAME = "cmdkey.exe") AND COMMANDLINE contains " -l, /l, –l, —l, ―l" select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.COMMANDLINE,Action1.FILE_NAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.USERNAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSNAME

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

Windows

Author

jmallette, Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)