credential_access_iis_apppoolsa_pwd_appcmd.toml

[metadata]
creation_date = "2020/08/18"
maturity = "production"
updated_date = "2022/03/31"

[rule]
author = ["Elastic"]
description = """
Identifies the Internet Information Services (IIS) command-line tool, AppCmd, being used to list passwords. An attacker
with IIS web server access via a web shell can decrypt and dump the IIS AppPool service account password using AppCmd.
"""
from = "now-9m"
index = ["winlogbeat-*", "logs-endpoint.events.*", "logs-windows.*"]
language = "eql"
license = "Elastic License v2"
max_signals = 33
name = "Microsoft IIS Service Account Password Dumped"
note = """## Config

If enabling an EQL rule on a non-elastic-agent index (such as beats) for versions <8.2, events will not define `event.ingested` and default fallback for EQL rules was not added until 8.2, so you will need to add a custom pipeline to populate `event.ingested` to @timestamp for this rule to work.
"""
references = ["https://blog.netspi.com/decrypting-iis-passwords-to-break-out-of-the-dmz-part-1/"]
risk_score = 73
rule_id = "0564fb9d-90b9-4234-a411-82a546dc1343"
severity = "high"
tags = ["Elastic", "Host", "Windows", "Threat Detection", "Credential Access"]
timestamp_override = "event.ingested"
type = "eql"

query = '''
process where event.type in ("start", "process_started") and
   (process.name : "appcmd.exe" or process.pe.original_file_name == "appcmd.exe") and 
   process.args : "/list" and process.args : "/text*password"
'''


[[rule.threat]]
framework = "MITRE ATT&CK"
[[rule.threat.technique]]
id = "T1003"
name = "OS Credential Dumping"
reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1003/"


[rule.threat.tactic]
id = "TA0006"
name = "Credential Access"
reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0006/"