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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.*

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

References:

Tags:

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

Version: 207

Rule authors:

Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

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&CK^TM

Tactic:
- Name: Credential Access
- ID: TA0006
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0006/
Technique:
- Name: OS Credential Dumping
- ID: T1003
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1003/
Sub-technique:
- Name: LSASS Memory
- ID: T1003.001
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1003/001/

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