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Potential LSASS Memory Dump via PssCaptureSnapShot

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Potential LSASS Memory Dump via PssCaptureSnapShot

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Identifies suspicious access to an LSASS handle via PssCaptureSnapShot where two successive process accesses are performed by the same process and target two different instances of LSASS. This may indicate an attempt to evade detection and dump LSASS memory for credential access.

Rule type: threshold

Rule indices:

  • winlogbeat-*
  • logs-windows.sysmon_operational-*

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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Tags:

  • Domain: Endpoint
  • OS: Windows
  • Use Case: Threat Detection
  • Tactic: Credential Access
  • Data Source: Sysmon

Version: 208

Rule authors:

  • Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Setup

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Setup

This is meant to run only on datasources using Elastic Agent 7.14+ since versions prior to that will be missing the threshold rule cardinality feature.

Rule query

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event.category:process and host.os.type:windows and event.code:10 and
 winlog.event_data.TargetImage:("C:\\Windows\\system32\\lsass.exe" or
                                 "c:\\Windows\\system32\\lsass.exe" or
                                 "c:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe")

Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

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