LoFP / the activity may be legitimate. other tools can access lsass for legitimate reasons, and it's possible this event could be generated in those cases. in these cases, false positives should be fairly obvious and you may need to tweak the search to eliminate noise.

Techniques

• T1003
• T1003.001

Sample rules

Detect Credential Dumping through LSASS access

• source: splunk
• technicques:
  • T1003.001
  • T1003

Description

The following analytic detects attempts to read LSASS memory, indicative of credential dumping. It leverages Sysmon EventCode 10, filtering for specific access permissions (0x1010 and 0x1410) on the lsass.exe process. This activity is significant because it suggests an attacker is trying to extract credentials from LSASS memory, potentially leading to unauthorized access, data breaches, and compromise of sensitive information. If confirmed malicious, this could enable attackers to escalate privileges, move laterally within the network, or exfiltrate data. Extensive triage is necessary to differentiate between malicious and benign activities.

Detection logic

`sysmon` EventCode=10 TargetImage=*lsass.exe (GrantedAccess=0x1010 OR GrantedAccess=0x1410) 
| stats count min(_time) as firstTime max(_time) as lastTime by dest, SourceImage, SourceProcessId, TargetImage, TargetProcessId, EventCode, GrantedAccess 
| `security_content_ctime(firstTime)`
| `security_content_ctime(lastTime)` 
| `detect_credential_dumping_through_lsass_access_filter`