Hayabusa high test sigma

Suspicious Manipulation Of Default Accounts Via Net.EXE

Detects suspicious manipulations of default accounts such as 'administrator' and 'guest'. For example 'enable' or 'disable' accounts or change the password...etc

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Detection Logic

{
  "process_creation": {
    "EventID": 4688,
    "Channel": "Security"
  },
  "selection_img": [
    {
      "NewProcessName
| endswith": [
        "\\net.exe",
        "\\net1.exe"
      ]
    },
    {
      "OriginalFileName": [
        "net.exe",
        "net1.exe"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "selection_user_option": {
    "CommandLine
| contains": " user "
  },
  "selection_username": {
    "CommandLine
| contains": [
      " Järjestelmänvalvoja ",
      " Rendszergazda ",
      " Администратор ",
      " Administrateur ",
      " Administrador ",
      " Administratör ",
      " Administrator ",
      " guest ",
      " DefaultAccount ",
      " \"Järjestelmänvalvoja\" ",
      " \"Rendszergazda\" ",
      " \"Администратор\" ",
      " \"Administrateur\" ",
      " \"Administrador\" ",
      " \"Administratör\" ",
      " \"Administrator\" ",
      " \"guest\" ",
      " \"DefaultAccount\" ",
      " 'Järjestelmänvalvoja' ",
      " 'Rendszergazda' ",
      " 'Администратор' ",
      " 'Administrateur' ",
      " 'Administrador' ",
      " 'Administratör' ",
      " 'Administrator' ",
      " 'guest' ",
      " 'DefaultAccount' "
    ]
  },
  "filter": {
    "CommandLine
| contains
| all": [
      "guest",
      "/active no"
    ]
  },
  "condition": "process_creation and (all of selection_* and not filter)"
}

False Positives

  • Some false positives could occur with the admin or guest account. It depends on the scripts being used by the admins in your env. If you experience a lot of FP you could reduce the level to medium

Field Validations

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