Mshta VBScript Execute PowerShell¶

Metadata¶


Author	Roberto Rodriguez @Cyb3rWard0g
Creation Date	2020/10/22
Modification Date	2020/10/22
Tactics	[‘TA0005’]
Techniques	[‘T1218.005’]
Tags	[‘art.906865c3-e05f-4acc-85c4-fbc185455095’]

Dataset Description¶

This dataset represents threat actors leveraging mshta.exe to proxy execute malicious powershell commands via vbscript.

Datasets Downloads¶

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

Notebooks¶

Notebooks created by the community leveraging the mordor datasets

Author	Name	Link

Simulation Plan¶

Environment	Tool Type	Module
Lab VM	Manual	Cmd

Adversary View¶

mshta vbscript:Execute("CreateObject(""Wscript.Shell"").Run ""powershell -noexit -command Get-Service sysmon"":close")

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/cmd_mshta_vbscript_execute_psh.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|12     |401  |
|WORKSTATION5|Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational|7      |238  |
|WORKSTATION5|Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational|10     |184  |
|WORKSTATION5|Security                            |4658   |95   |
|WORKSTATION5|Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational|13     |48   |
|WORKSTATION5|Security                            |4656   |48   |
|WORKSTATION5|Security                            |4690   |48   |
|WORKSTATION5|Security                            |4663   |32   |
|WORKSTATION5|Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational|9      |6    |
|WORKSTATION5|Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational|11     |5    |
|WORKSTATION5|Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational|1      |3    |
|WORKSTATION5|Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational|23     |3    |
|WORKSTATION5|Security                            |4688   |3    |
|WORKSTATION5|System                              |104    |2    |
|WORKSTATION5|Security                            |4673   |2    |
|WORKSTATION5|Security                            |4703   |1    |
|WORKSTATION5|Security                            |5158   |1    |
|WORKSTATION5|Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational|17     |1    |
|WORKSTATION5|Security                            |5156   |1    |
|WORKSTATION5|Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational|18     |1    |
+------------+------------------------------------+-------+-----+
only showing top 20 rows

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