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Suspicious LSASS Access via MalSecLogon
editSuspicious LSASS Access via MalSecLogon
editIdentifies suspicious access to LSASS handle from a call trace pointing to seclogon.dll and with a suspicious access rights value. This may indicate an attempt to leak an LSASS handle via abusing the Secondary Logon service in preparation for credential access.
Rule type: eql
Rule indices:
- winlogbeat-*
- logs-windows.*
Severity: high
Risk score: 73
Runs every: 5 minutes
Searches indices from: now-9m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)
Maximum alerts per execution: 100
References:
Tags:
- Elastic
- Host
- Windows
- Threat Detection
- Credential Access
- Sysmon Only
Version: 101 (version history)
Added (Elastic Stack release): 8.4.0
Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 8.6.0
Rule authors: Elastic
Rule license: Elastic License v2
Investigation guide
editRule query
editprocess where event.code == "10" and winlog.event_data.TargetImage : "?:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\lsass.exe" and /* seclogon service accessing lsass */ winlog.event_data.CallTrace : "*seclogon.dll*" and process.name : "svchost.exe" and /* PROCESS_CREATE_PROCESS & PROCESS_DUP_HANDLE & PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION */ winlog.event_data.GrantedAccess == "0x14c0"
Threat mapping
editFramework: MITRE ATT&CKTM
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Tactic:
- Name: Credential Access
- ID: TA0006
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0006/
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Technique:
- Name: OS Credential Dumping
- ID: T1003
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1003/
Rule version history
edit- Version 101 (8.6.0 release)
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- Formatting only
- Version 100 (8.5.0 release)
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- Formatting only