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Lateral Tool Transfer
editLateral Tool Transfer
editIdentifies the creation or change of a Windows executable file over network shares. Adversaries may transfer tools or other files between systems in a compromised environment.
Rule type: eql
Rule indices:
- logs-endpoint.events.*
- winlogbeat-*
- logs-windows.*
Severity: medium
Risk score: 47
Runs every: 5 minutes
Searches indices from: now-9m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time
)
Maximum alerts per execution: 100
Tags:
- Elastic
- Host
- Windows
- Threat Detection
- Lateral Movement
Version: 3 (version history)
Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.11.0
Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 7.16.0
Rule authors: Elastic
Rule license: Elastic License v2
Rule query
editsequence by host.id with maxspan=30s [network where event.type == "start" and process.pid == 4 and destination.port == 445 and network.direction : ("incoming", "ingress") and network.transport == "tcp" and source.address != "127.0.0.1" and source.address != "::1" ] by process.entity_id /* add more executable extensions here if they are not noisy in your environment */ [file where event.type in ("creation", "change") and process.pid == 4 and file.extension : ("exe", "dll", "bat", "cmd")] by process.entity_id
Threat mapping
editFramework: MITRE ATT&CKTM
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Tactic:
- Name: Lateral Movement
- ID: TA0008
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0008/
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Technique:
- Name: Lateral Tool Transfer
- ID: T1570
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1570/
Rule version history
edit- Version 3 (7.16.0 release)
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Updated query, changed from:
sequence by host.id with maxspan=30s [network where event.type == "start" and process.pid == 4 and destination.port == 445 and network.direction == "incoming" and network.transport == "tcp" and source.address != "127.0.0.1" and source.address != "::1" ] by process.entity_id /* add more executable extensions here if they are not noisy in your environment */ [file where event.type in ("creation", "change") and process.pid == 4 and file.extension : ("exe", "dll", "bat", "cmd")] by process.entity_id
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- Version 2 (7.12.0 release)
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- Formatting only