Spoolsv Suspicious Process Access
Description
This analytic identifies a suspicious behavior related to PrintNightmare, or CVE-2021-34527 previously (CVE-2021-1675), to gain privilege escalation on the vulnerable machine. This exploit attacks a critical Windows Print Spooler Vulnerability to elevate privilege. This detection is to look for suspicious process access made by the spoolsv.exe that may related to the attack.
- Type: TTP
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Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk Cloud
- Last Updated: 2021-07-01
- Author: Mauricio Velazco, Michael Haag, Teoderick Contreras, Splunk
- ID: 799b606e-da81-11eb-93f8-acde48001122
Annotations
Kill Chain Phase
- Exploitation
NIST
- DE.CM
CIS20
- CIS 10
CVE
ID | Summary | CVSS |
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CVE-2021-34527 | Windows Print Spooler Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | 9.0 |
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`sysmon` EventCode=10 SourceImage = "*\\spoolsv.exe" CallTrace = "*\\Windows\\system32\\spool\\DRIVERS\\x64\\*" TargetImage IN ("*\\rundll32.exe", "*\\spoolsv.exe") GrantedAccess = 0x1fffff
| stats count min(_time) as firstTime max(_time) as lastTime by Computer SourceImage TargetImage GrantedAccess CallTrace EventCode ProcessID
| `security_content_ctime(firstTime)`
| `security_content_ctime(lastTime)`
| `spoolsv_suspicious_process_access_filter`
Macros
The SPL above uses the following Macros:
spoolsv_suspicious_process_access_filter is a empty macro by default. It allows the user to filter out any results (false positives) without editing the SPL.
Required fields
List of fields required to use this analytic.
- _time
- SourceImage
- TargetImage
- GrantedAccess
- CallTrace
- EventCode
How To Implement
To successfully implement this search, you need to be ingesting logs with process access event where SourceImage, TargetImage, GrantedAccess and CallTrace executions from your endpoints. If you are using Sysmon, you must have at least version 6.0.4 of the Sysmon TA. Tune and filter known instances of spoolsv.exe.
Known False Positives
Unknown. Filter as needed.
Associated Analytic Story
RBA
Risk Score | Impact | Confidence | Message |
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72.0 | 80 | 90 | $SourceImage$ was GrantedAccess open access to $TargetImage$ on endpoint $Computer$. This behavior is suspicious and related to PrintNightmare. |
The Risk Score is calculated by the following formula: Risk Score = (Impact * Confidence/100). Initial Confidence and Impact is set by the analytic author.
Reference
- https://github.com/cube0x0/impacket/commit/73b9466c17761384ece11e1028ec6689abad6818
- https://www.truesec.com/hub/blog/fix-for-printnightmare-cve-2021-1675-exploit-to-keep-your-print-servers-running-while-a-patch-is-not-available
- https://www.truesec.com/hub/blog/exploitable-critical-rce-vulnerability-allows-regular-users-to-fully-compromise-active-directory-printnightmare-cve-2021-1675
- https://www.reddit.com/r/msp/comments/ob6y02/critical_vulnerability_printnightmare_exposes
Test Dataset
Replay any dataset to Splunk Enterprise by using our replay.py
tool or the UI.
Alternatively you can replay a dataset into a Splunk Attack Range
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