[Rule Tuning] Whoami Process Activity (#2224)

* added Whoami Process Activity

* Update discovery_whoami_command_activity.toml

Co-authored-by: Colson Wilhoit <48036388+DefSecSentinel@users.noreply.github.com>
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Samirbous
2022-08-16 16:26:10 +02:00
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parent 0f7b29918c
commit 8e0ae64a04
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
[metadata]
creation_date = "2020/02/18"
maturity = "production"
updated_date = "2022/06/03"
updated_date = "2022/08/03"
[rule]
author = ["Elastic"]
description = """
Identifies use of whoami.exe which displays user, group, and privileges information for the user who is currently logged
Identifies suspicious use of whoami.exe which displays user, group, and privileges information for the user who is currently logged
on to the local system.
"""
false_positives = [
@@ -74,7 +74,24 @@ timestamp_override = "event.ingested"
type = "eql"
query = '''
process where event.type in ("start", "process_started") and process.name : "whoami.exe"
process where event.type in ("start", "process_started") and process.name : "whoami.exe" and
(
(/* scoped for whoami execution under system privileges */
(user.domain : ("NT AUTHORITY", "NT-AUTORITÄT", "AUTORITE NT", "IIS APPPOOL") or user.id : ("S-1-5-18", "S-1-5-19", "S-1-5-20")) and
not (process.parent.name : "cmd.exe" and
process.parent.args : ("chcp 437>nul 2>&1 & C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\whoami.exe /groups",
"chcp 437>nul 2>&1 & %systemroot%\\system32\\whoami /user",
"C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\whoami.exe /groups",
"*WINDOWS\\system32\\config\\systemprofile*")) and
not (process.parent.executable : "C:\\Windows\\system32\\inetsrv\\appcmd.exe" and process.parent.args : "LIST") and
not process.parent.executable : ("C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Monitoring Agent\\Agent\\MonitoringHost.exe",
"C:\\Program Files\\Cohesity\\cohesity_windows_agent_service.exe")) or
process.parent.name : ("wsmprovhost.exe", "w3wp.exe", "wmiprvse.exe", "rundll32.exe", "regsvr32.exe")
)
'''