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Account Creation

Description

User accounts may be created to achieve persistence on a machine. Read more here: https://attack.mitre.org/wiki/Technique/T1136. Tags: #CreateAccount. Query #1: Query for users being created using "net user" command. "net user" commands are noisy, so needs to be joined with another signal -. E.g. in this example we look for use of uncommon & undocumented commandline switches (e.g. /ad instead of /add).
Type de règle
Scheduled
Version
1.0.0
Statut déclaré
Available
Fréquence
1h
Période analysée
1h
Déclenchement
gt 0

Couverture MITRE déclarée

Sources déclarées

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Connecteurs

Types de données

Requête KQL

Requête originale, sans modification.

DeviceProcessEvents
// Pro-tip: 
// There are many different ways to run a process from a file - e.g. by using full path, env. variables, ~1 annotation, more...
// So, to find executions of a known filename, better filter on the filename (and possibly on folder path) than on the commandline.
| where FileName in~ ("net.exe", "net1.exe")
// Parse the user name from the commandline.
// To have case-insensitive parsing use the i flag, to have non-greedy match (e.g. CreatedUser as short as possible), specify U flag:
// "kind=regex flags=i"
| parse kind=regex flags=iU ProcessCommandLine with * "user " CreatedUser " " * "/ad"
// Filter rows where user could not be parsed - e.g. because it was not a user command, or the /add commandline switch was not specified.
| where isnotempty(CreatedUser)
// Every net.exe executed will run net1.exe with the same commandline.
// in this where clause we remove such rows, as they duplicate the number of results we have without adding any value.
| where not (FileName =~ "net1.exe" and InitiatingProcessFileName =~ "net.exe" and replace("net", "net1", InitiatingProcessCommandLine) =~ ProcessCommandLine)
// If /domain is specified, so the user is created on the domain controller.
// Also, any prefix that's longer than 1 char will also do the same, e.g. /do, /dom, /doma, ....
| extend CreatedOnLocalMachine=(ProcessCommandLine !contains "/do")
| where ProcessCommandLine !contains "/add" or (CreatedOnLocalMachine == 0 and ProcessCommandLine !contains "/domain")
| summarize MachineCount=dcount(DeviceName) by CreatedUser, CreatedOnLocalMachine, InitiatingProcessFileName, FileName, ProcessId, ProcessCommandLine, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, DeviceId, DeviceName
| extend HostName = iff(DeviceName has '.', substring(DeviceName, 0, indexof(DeviceName, '.')), DeviceName)
| extend DnsDomain = iff(DeviceName has '.', substring(DeviceName, indexof(DeviceName, '.') + 1), "")

Entités déclarées

HostProcess

Contenus associés

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Traçabilité de la source

GitHub

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Identifiant source
450f4e56-5bba-4070-b9d9-9204ba9d777d
Autres fichiers source 2Solutions/Microsoft Defender XDR/Analytic Rules/Persistence/AccountCreation.yamlsource ↗Solutions/Microsoft Defender XDR/Data/Solution_Microsoft Defender XDR.jsonsolution-membership ↗
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