Extracting Information with PowerShell


Description

Adversaries may search local file systems and remote file shares for files containing insecurely stored credentials. These can be files created by users to store their own credentials, shared credential stores for a group of individuals, configuration files containing passwords for a system or service, or source code/binary files containing embedded passwords.

Query · sigma

selection:
  ScriptBlockText|contains|all:
  - ls
  - ' -R'
  - 'select-string '
  - '-Pattern '
condition: selection

Known false positives

  • Unknown
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title: Extracting Information with PowerShell
id: bd5971a7-626d-46ab-8176-ed643f694f68
status: test
description: |
    Adversaries may search local file systems and remote file shares for files containing insecurely stored credentials.
    These can be files created by users to store their own credentials, shared credential stores for a group of individuals,
    configuration files containing passwords for a system or service, or source code/binary files containing embedded passwords.
references:
    - https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/f339e7da7d05f6057fdfcdd3742bfcf365fee2a9/atomics/T1552.001/T1552.001.md
author: frack113
date: 2021-12-19
modified: 2022-12-25
tags:
    - attack.credential-access
    - attack.t1552.001
logsource:
    product: windows
    category: ps_script
    definition: 'Requirements: Script Block Logging must be enabled'
detection:
    selection:
        ScriptBlockText|contains|all:
            - ls
            - ' -R'
            - 'select-string '
            - '-Pattern '
    condition: selection
falsepositives:
    - Unknown
level: medium

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