Covenant Wuauclt CreateRemoteThread Execution¶

Metadata¶


Author	Roberto Rodriguez @Cyb3rWard0g
Creation Date	2020/10/12
Modification Date	2020/10/12
Tactics	[‘TA0005’]
Techniques	[‘T1218’]
Tags	[‘CreateRemoteThread’]

Dataset Description¶

This dataset represents adversaries proxy executing code via the Windows Update client utility. In order to bypass rules looking for the binary reaching out directly to the Internet, this dataset shows the binary creating and running a thread in the virtual address space of another process via the CreateRemoteThread API.

Datasets Downloads¶

Dataset Type	Link
Host	https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OTRF/mordor/master/datasets/small/windows/defense_evasion/host/covenant_lolbin_wuauclt_createremotethread.zip

Notebooks¶

Notebooks created by the community leveraging the mordor datasets

Author	Name	Link
Threat Hunter Playbook	Signed Binary Proxy Execution via CreateRemoteThread	https://threathunterplaybook.com/notebooks/windows/05_defense_evasion/WIN-201012183248.html

Simulation Plan¶

Environment	Tool Type	Module
Mordor shire	C2	ShellCmd

Adversary View¶

Upload /filepath:"C:\ProgramData\SimpleInjection.dll"

ShellCmd /shellcommand:"C:\Windows\System32\wuauclt.exe /UpdateDeploymentProvider C:\ProgramData\SimpleInjection.dll /RunHandlerComServe"

Explore Mordor Dataset¶

Initialize Analytics Engine¶

from openhunt.mordorutils import *
spark = get_spark()

Download & Process Mordor File¶

mordor_file = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OTRF/mordor/master/datasets/small/windows/defense_evasion/host/covenant_lolbin_wuauclt_createremotethread.zip"
registerMordorSQLTable(spark, mordor_file, "mordorTable")

[+] Processing a Spark DataFrame..
[+] DataFrame Returned !
[+] Temporary SparkSQL View: mordorTable 

Get to know your data¶

df = spark.sql(
'''
SELECT Hostname,Channel,EventID, Count(*) as count
FROM mordorTable
GROUP BY Hostname,Channel,EventID
ORDER BY count DESC
'''
)
df.show(truncate=False)

+---------------------------+------------------------------------+-------+-----+
|Hostname                   |Channel                             |EventID|count|
+---------------------------+------------------------------------+-------+-----+
|WORKSTATION5.theshire.local|Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational|7      |153  |
|WORKSTATION5.theshire.local|Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational|12     |147  |
|WORKSTATION5.theshire.local|Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational|10     |110  |
|WORKSTATION5.theshire.local|Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational|13     |90   |
|WORKSTATION6.theshire.local|Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational|10     |65   |
|WORKSTATION6.theshire.local|Security                            |4658   |64   |
|MORDORDC.theshire.local    |Security                            |5158   |52   |
|WORKSTATION6.theshire.local|Security                            |5158   |45   |
|MORDORDC.theshire.local    |Security                            |5156   |45   |
|WORKSTATION5.theshire.local|security                            |4658   |37   |
|MORDORDC.theshire.local    |Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational|12     |37   |
|WORKSTATION6.theshire.local|Security                            |4690   |32   |
|WORKSTATION6.theshire.local|Security                            |4663   |32   |
|WORKSTATION6.theshire.local|Security                            |4656   |32   |
|MORDORDC.theshire.local    |Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational|7      |30   |
|WORKSTATION5.theshire.local|security                            |5158   |28   |
|WORKSTATION6.theshire.local|Security                            |5156   |25   |
|MORDORDC.theshire.local    |Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational|10     |25   |
|MORDORDC.theshire.local    |Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational|3      |23   |
|WORKSTATION5.theshire.local|security                            |5156   |22   |
+---------------------------+------------------------------------+-------+-----+
only showing top 20 rows

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