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Powershell Empire Cmdlets Executed in Command Line

Description

'This query identifies use of PowerShell Empire's cmdlets within the command line data of the PowerShell process, indicating potential use of the post-exploitation tool.'
Type de règle
Scheduled
Version
1.3.1
Statut déclaré
Available
Fréquence
12h
Période analysée
12h
Déclenchement
gt 0

Couverture MITRE déclarée

Sources déclarées

Métadonnées du fichier source. Aucune dépendance déduite du KQL.

Connecteurs

Types de données

Requête KQL

Requête originale, sans modification.

let regexEmpire = tostring(toscalar(externaldata(cmdlets:string)[@"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Azure/Azure-Sentinel/master/Sample%20Data/Feeds/EmpireCommandString.txt"] with (format="txt")));
(union isfuzzy=true
 (SecurityEvent
| where EventID == 4688
//consider filtering on filename if perf issues occur
//where FileName in~ ("powershell.exe","powershell_ise.exe","pwsh.exe")
| where not(ParentProcessName has_any ('gc_worker.exe', 'gc_service.exe'))
| where CommandLine has "-encodedCommand"
| parse kind=regex flags=i CommandLine with * "-EncodedCommand " encodedCommand
| extend encodedCommand = iff(encodedCommand has " ", tostring(split(encodedCommand, " ")[0]), encodedCommand)
// Note: currently the base64_decode_tostring function is limited to supporting UTF8
| extend decodedCommand = translate('\0','', base64_decode_tostring(substring(encodedCommand, 0, strlen(encodedCommand) -  (strlen(encodedCommand) %8)))), encodedCommand, CommandLine , strlen(encodedCommand)
| extend EfectiveCommand = iff(isnotempty(encodedCommand), decodedCommand, CommandLine)
| where EfectiveCommand matches regex regexEmpire
| project timestamp = TimeGenerated, Computer, SubjectUserName, SubjectDomainName, FileName = Process, EfectiveCommand, decodedCommand, encodedCommand, CommandLine, ParentProcessName
| extend HostName = split(Computer, '.', 0)[0], DnsDomain = strcat_array(array_slice(split(Computer, '.'), 1, -1), '.')
),
(WindowsEvent
| where EventID == 4688
| where EventData has_any ("-encodedCommand", "powershell.exe","powershell_ise.exe","pwsh.exe")
| where not(EventData has_any ('gc_worker.exe', 'gc_service.exe'))
//consider filtering on filename if perf issues occur
//extend NewProcessName = tostring(EventData.NewProcessName)
//extend Process=tostring(split(NewProcessName, '\\')[-1])
//FileName = Process
//where FileName in~ ("powershell.exe","powershell_ise.exe","pwsh.exe")
| extend ParentProcessName = tostring(EventData.ParentProcessName)
| where not(ParentProcessName has_any ('gc_worker.exe', 'gc_service.exe'))
| extend CommandLine = tostring(EventData.CommandLine)
| where CommandLine has "-encodedCommand"
| parse kind=regex flags=i CommandLine with * "-EncodedCommand " encodedCommand
| extend encodedCommand = iff(encodedCommand has " ", tostring(split(encodedCommand, " ")[0]), encodedCommand)
// Note: currently the base64_decode_tostring function is limited to supporting UTF8
| extend decodedCommand = translate('\0','', base64_decode_tostring(substring(encodedCommand, 0, strlen(encodedCommand) -  (strlen(encodedCommand) %8)))), encodedCommand, CommandLine , strlen(encodedCommand)
| extend EfectiveCommand = iff(isnotempty(encodedCommand), decodedCommand, CommandLine)
| where EfectiveCommand matches regex regexEmpire
| extend SubjectUserName = tostring(EventData.SubjectUserName)
| extend SubjectDomainName = tostring(EventData.SubjectDomainName)
| extend NewProcessName = tostring(EventData.NewProcessName)
| extend Process=tostring(split(NewProcessName, '\\')[-1])
| project timestamp = TimeGenerated, Computer, SubjectUserName, SubjectDomainName, FileName = Process, EfectiveCommand, decodedCommand, encodedCommand, CommandLine, ParentProcessName
| extend HostName = split(Computer, '.', 0)[0], DnsDomain = strcat_array(array_slice(split(Computer, '.'), 1, -1), '.')
))

Entités déclarées

AccountHost

Contenus associés

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Traçabilité de la source

GitHub

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Identifiant source
ef88eb96-861c-43a0-ab16-f3835a97c928
Autres fichiers source 3Solutions/Attacker Tools Threat Protection Essentials/Analytic Rules/powershell_empire.yamlsource ↗Detections/SecurityEvent/powershell_empire.yamlmigration-note ↗Solutions/Attacker Tools Threat Protection Essentials/Data/Solution_AttackersToolsThreatProtectionEssentials.jsonsolution-membership ↗
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