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Suspicious named pipes

Description

This query looks for Named Pipe events that either contain one of the known IOCs or make use of patterns that can be linked to CobaltStrike usage.
Type de règle
Scheduled
Version
1.0.0
Statut déclaré
Available
Fréquence
1h
Période analysée
1h
Déclenchement
gt 0

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Requête originale, sans modification.

let timeframe=1h;
let CobaltStrikeDefaults= dynamic([@"msagent_", @"MSSE-", @"postex_", @"status_", @"mypipe-f", @"mypipe-h",@"ntsvcs_",@"scerpc_", @"mojo.5688.8052."]);
let CobaltStrikeMallable= dynamic([@"win_svc", @"ntsvcs", @"scerpc", @"status_", @"SearchTextHarvester", @"DserNamePipe",@"wkssvc_",@"scerpc_", @"spoolss_",@"CatalogChangeListener",@"fullduplex_",@"demoagent_",@"PGMessagePipe",@"MsFteWds",@"postex_ssh_",@"windows.update.manager",@"\f4c3",@"\f53f",@"halfduplex_"]);
DeviceEvents
| where Timestamp >= ago(timeframe)
| where ActionType == "NamedPipeEvent"
| extend AdditionalFields=parse_json(AdditionalFields)
| extend ThreadId=tostring(AdditionalFields.ThreadId)
| extend PipeName=tostring(AdditionalFields.PipeName)
// creating string based variants of the processIDs for matching several times later
| extend InitiatingPID=tostring(InitiatingProcessId)
| extend InitiatingParentPID=tostring(InitiatingProcessParentId)
// Begin allow-list.
// End allow-list.
| where PipeName has_any (CobaltStrikeDefaults) or
// Mojo is generated by Chrome(ium) browsers and teams and have distinct pattern including the (parent)ProcessId and ThreadId plus a random character string, CobaltStrike generates hex.
      (PipeName matches regex @"\\mojo\.\d+\.\d+\." and not(PipeName matches regex @"\\mojo\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+$" or PipeName has InitiatingPID or PipeName has InitiatingParentPID or PipeName has ThreadId)) or
// Chrome(ium) browsers sync processes have distinct pattern including the (parent)ProcessId and ThreadId plus a random character string, CobaltStrike generates hex.
      (PipeName matches regex @"\\(edge|chrome)\.sync\.\d+\.\d+\." and not(PipeName matches regex @"\\(edge|chrome|edge\.sync|chrome\.sync)\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+$" or PipeName has InitiatingPID or PipeName has InitiatingParentPID or PipeName has ThreadId)) or
// PSHost is generated by PowerShell and has a distinct pattern including the (parent)ProcessId.
      (PipeName matches regex @"\\PSHost\.\d+\." and not(PipeName matches regex @"\\PSHost\.\d+\.\d+\." or PipeName has InitiatingPID or PipeName has InitiatingParentPID)) or
// Crashpad pipes have a distinct pattern including the ProcessId and a string of upper case characters.
      (PipeName matches regex @"\\crashpad_" and not(PipeName matches regex @"\\crashpad_\d+_[A-Z]+" or PipeName has InitiatingPID or PipeName has InitiatingParentPID)) or
// Firefox pipes have a distinct pattern including the ProcessId and 1-3 digits which are sequential for each new pipe.
      (PipeName matches regex @"\\cubeb-pipe-" and not(PipeName matches regex @"\\cubeb-pipe-\d+_[0-9]{1-3}+" or PipeName has InitiatingPID)) or
// Based on a list of public mallable profiles and a suffix that is a random HEX string.
      (PipeName has_any (CobaltStrikeMallable) and PipeName matches regex @"[a-fA-F0-9]{2,10}$") or
      (PipeName matches regex @"\\pipe\\[0-9a-f]{7,10}" or PipeName matches regex @"\\pipe\\[0-9a-f]{8}")

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Identifiant source
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Autres fichiers source 2Solutions/FalconFriday/Analytic Rules/SuspiciousNamedPipes.yamlsource ↗Solutions/FalconFriday/Data/Solution_FalconFriday.jsonsolution-membership ↗
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