Potential LSASS Clone Creation via PssCaptureSnapShot

Identifies the creation of a Local Security Authority Server Service (LSASS) process clone via PssCaptureSnapShot where the parent process is the initial LSASS process instance. This may indicate an attempt to evade detection and dump LSASS memory for credential access.

Rule type: eql

Rule indices:

Severity: high

Risk score: 73

Runs every: 5m

Searches indices from: now-9m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

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Version: 2

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Rule license: Elastic License v2

## Config

This is meant to run only on datasources using Windows security event 4688 that captures the process clone creation.

If enabling an EQL rule on a non-elastic-agent index (such as beats) for versions <8.2, events will not define `event.ingested` and default fallback for EQL rules was not added until 8.2, so you will need to add a custom pipeline to populate `event.ingested` to @timestamp for this rule to work.

process where event.code:"4688" and
  process.executable : "?:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe" and
  process.parent.executable : "?:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe"