Description
This query was originally published in the threat analytics report, Doppelpaymer: More human-operated ransomware. There is also a related blog.
DoppelPaymer is ransomware that is spread manually by human operators. These operators have exhibited extensive knowledge of system administration and common network security misconfigurations. For example, they use SysInternal utilities such as ProcDump to dump credentials from LSASS. They often use these stolen credentials to turn off security software, run malicious commands, and spread malware throughout an organization.
The following query detects ProcDump being used to dump credentials from LSASS.
The See also section below lists links to other queries associated with DoppelPaymer.
References:
https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/11/20/customer-guidance-for-the-dopplepaymer-ransomware/
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/threats/malware-encyclopedia-description?Name=Ransom:Win32/DoppelPaymer.KM!MTB
https://docs.microsoft.com/sysinternals/downloads/procdump
https://docs.microsoft.com/windows-server/security/credentials-protection-and-management/configuring-additional-lsa-protection
- Rule type
- Scheduled
- Version
- 1.0.0
- Declared status
- Available
- Query frequency
- 1h
- Query period
- 1h
- Trigger
- gt 0
Declared MITRE coverage
Declared sources
Metadata from the source file. No dependencies inferred from KQL.
Connectors
Data types
KQL query
Original query, unchanged.
// Dumping of LSASS memory using procdump
DeviceProcessEvents
// Command lines that include "lsass" and -accepteula or -ma flags used in procdump
| where (ProcessCommandLine has "lsass" and (ProcessCommandLine has "-accepteula" or
ProcessCommandLine contains "-ma"))
// Omits possible FPs where the full command is just "procdump.exe lsass"
or (FileName in~ ('procdump.exe','procdump64.exe') and ProcessCommandLine has 'lsass')
| extend HostName = iff(DeviceName has '.', substring(DeviceName, 0, indexof(DeviceName, '.')), DeviceName)
| extend DnsDomain = iff(DeviceName has '.', substring(DeviceName, indexof(DeviceName, '.') + 1), "")
Declared entities
Related content
Links established from declared identifiers and solution manifests.
Source provenance
GitHubDisplayed values come from files in Azure/Azure-Sentinel. They describe the published template, not your workspace configuration.
- Commit
9800e51↗- Source identifier
1be34fb9-f81b-47ae-84fb-465e6686d76c
GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING
Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC