alirezaaminzadeh/secembed-pairs huggingface dataset:
Query: intelligence brief on T1137.001
Matching passage: T1137.001 Office Template Macros. Tactics: persistence. Description: Adversaries may abuse Microsoft Office templates to obtain persistence on a compromised system. Microsoft Office contains templates that are part of common Office applications and are used to customize styles. The base templates within the application are used each time an application starts. (Citation: Microsoft Change Normal Template) Office Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros (Citation: MSDN VBA in Office) can be inserted into the base template and used to execute code when the respective Office application starts in order to obtain persistence. Examples for both Word and Excel have been discovered and published. By default, Word has a Normal.dotm template created that can be modified to include a malicious macro. Excel does not have a template file created by default, but one can be added that will automatically be loaded.(Citation: enigma0x3 normal.dotm)(Citation: Hexacorn Office Template Macros) Shared templates may also be stored and pulled from remote locations.(Citation: GlobalDotName Jun 2019) Word Normal.dotm location:<br> <code>C:\Users\&lt;username&gt;\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates\Normal.dotm</code> Excel Personal.xlsb location:<br> <code>C:\Users\&lt;username&gt;\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Excel\XLSTART\PERSONAL.XLSB</code> Adversaries may also change the location of the base template to point to their own by hijacking the application's search order, e.g. Word 2016 will first look for Normal.dotm under <code>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\root\Office16\</code>, or by modifying the GlobalDotName registry key. By modifying the GlobalDotName registry key an adversary can specify an arbitrary location, file name, and file extension to use for the template that will be loaded on application startup. To abuse GlobalDotName, adversaries may first need to register the template as a trusted document or place it in a trusted location.(Citation: GlobalDotName Jun 2019) An adversary may need to enable macros to execute unrestricted depending
Near-miss passage: T1137.006 Add-ins. Tactics: persistence. Description: Adversaries may abuse Microsoft Office add-ins to obtain persistence on a compromised system. Office add-ins can be used to add functionality to Office programs. (Citation: Microsoft Office Add-ins) There are different types of add-ins that can be used by the various Office products; including Word/Excel add-in Libraries (WLL/XLL), VBA add-ins, Office Component Object Model (COM) add-ins, automation add-ins, VBA Editor (VBE), Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) add-ins, and Outlook add-ins. (Citation: MRWLabs Office Persistence Add-ins)(Citation: FireEye Mail CDS 2018) Add-ins can be used to obtain persistence because they can be set to execute code when an Office application starts.
Query: vulnerability: Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability on Cisco TelePresence Serial Gateway devices with software 1.0(1.42) allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitra
Matching passage: CVE-2015-4253. CWE: CWE-352. CVSS: 6.800000190734863. Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability on Cisco TelePresence Serial Gateway devices with software 1.0(1.42) allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users, aka Bug ID CSCuu90728.
Near-miss passage: CVE-2015-9428. CWE: CWE-352. CVSS: 6.5. The wplegalpages plugin before 1.1 for WordPress has CSRF with resultant XSS via wp-admin/admin.php?page=legal-pages lp-domain-name, lp-business-name, lp-phone, lp-street, lp-city-state, lp-country, lp-email, lp-address, or lp-niche parameters.
Query: actor TTPs: AppInit DLLs
Matching passage: T1546.010 AppInit DLLs. Tactics: privilege escalation, persistence. Description: Adversaries may establish persistence and/or elevate privileges by executing malicious content triggered by AppInit DLLs loaded into processes. Dynamic-link libraries (DLLs) that are specified in the <code>AppInit_DLLs</code> value in the Registry keys <code>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows</code> or <code>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows</code> are loaded by user32.dll into every process that loads user32.dll. In practice this is nearly every program, since user32.dll is a very common library. (Citation: Elastic Process Injection July 2017) Similar to Process Injection, these values can be abused to obtain elevated privileges by causing a malicious DLL to be loaded and run in the context of separate processes on the computer. (Citation: AppInit Registry) Malicious AppInit DLLs may also provide persistence by continuously being triggered by API activity. The AppInit DLL functionality is disabled in Windows 8 and later versions when secure boot is enabled. (Citation: AppInit Secure Boot)
Near-miss passage: T1546.013 PowerShell Profile. Tactics: privilege escalation, persistence. Description: Adversaries may gain persistence and elevate privileges by executing malicious content triggered by PowerShell profiles. A PowerShell profile (<code>profile.ps1</code>) is a script that runs when [PowerShell](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1059/001) starts and can be used as a logon script to customize user environments. [PowerShell](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1059/001) supports several profiles depending on the user or host program. For example, there can be different profiles for [PowerShell](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1059/001) host programs such as the PowerShell console, PowerShell ISE or Visual Studio Code. An administrator can also configure a profile that applies to all users and host programs on the local computer. (Citation: Microsoft About Profiles) Adversaries may modify these profiles to include arbitrary commands, functions, modules, and/or [PowerShell](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1059/001) drives to gain persistence. Every time a user opens a [PowerShell](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1059/001) session the modified script will be executed unless the <code>-NoProfile</code> flag is used when it is launched. (Citation: ESET Turla PowerShell May 2019) An adversary may also be able to escalate privileges if a script in a PowerShell profile is loaded and executed by an account with higher privileges, such as a domain administrator. (Citation: Wits End and Shady PowerShell Profiles)
Query: patch priority for CVE-2015-1000007
Matching passage: CVE-2015-1000007. CWE: CWE-200. CVSS: 7.5. Remote file download vulnerability in wptf-image-gallery v1.03
Near-miss passage: CVE-2015-7080. CWE: CWE-200. CVSS: 2.0999999046325684. Siri in Apple iOS before 9.2 allows physically proximate attackers to bypass an intended client-side protection mechanism and obtain sensitive content-notification information by listening to a device in the lock-screen state.
Query: detection engineering for Service Exhaustion Flood
Matching passage: T1499.002 Service Exhaustion Flood. Tactics: impact. Description: Adversaries may target the different network services provided by systems to conduct a denial of service (DoS). Adversaries often target the availability of DNS and web services, however others have been targeted as well.(Citation: Arbor AnnualDoSreport Jan 2018) Web server software can be attacked through a variety of means, some of which apply generally while others are specific to the software being used to provide the service. One example of this type of attack is known as a simple HTTP flood, where an adversary sends a large number of HTTP requests to a web server to overwhelm it and/or an application that runs on top of it. This flood relies on raw volume to accomplish the objective, exhausting any of the various resources required by the victim software to provide the service.(Citation: Cloudflare HTTPflood) Another variation, known as a SSL renegotiation attack, takes advantage of a protocol feature in SSL/TLS. The SSL/TLS protocol suite includes mechanisms for the client and server to agree on an encryption algorithm to use for subsequent secure connections. If SSL renegotiation is enabled, a request can be made for renegotiation of the crypto algorithm. In a renegotiation attack, the adversary establishes a SSL/TLS connection and then proceeds to make a series of renegotiation requests. Because the cryptographic renegotiation has a meaningful cost in computation cycles, this can cause an impact to the availability of the service when done in volume.(Citation: Arbor SSLDoS April 2012)
Near-miss passage: T1499.004 Application or System Exploitation. Tactics: impact. Description: Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities that can cause an application or system to crash and deny availability to users. (Citation: Sucuri BIND9 August 2015) Some systems may automatically restart critical applications and services when crashes occur, but they can likely be re-exploited to cause a persistent denial of service (DoS) condition. Adversaries may exploit known or zero-day vulnerabilities to crash applications and/or systems, which may also lead to dependent applications and/or systems to be in a DoS condition. Crashed or restarted applications or systems may also have other effects such as [Data Destruction](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1485), [Firmware Corruption](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1495), [Service Stop](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1489) etc. which may further cause a DoS condition and deny availability to critical information, applications and/or systems.
Query: describe CVE-2015-4548
Matching passage: CVE-2015-4548. CWE: CWE-264. CVSS: 7.199999809265137. EMC RSA Web Threat Detection before 5.1 SP1 allows local users to obtain root privileges by leveraging access to a service account and writing commands to a service configuration file.
Near-miss passage: CVE-2015-5301. CWE: CWE-264. CVSS: 5.5. providers/saml2/admin.py in the Identity Provider (IdP) server in Ipsilon 0.1.0 before 1.0.2 and 1.1.x before 1.1.1 does not properly check permissions, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service by deleting a SAML2 Service Provider (SP).
Query: describe CVE-2015-1807
Matching passage: CVE-2015-1807. CWE: CWE-22. CVSS: 3.5. Directory traversal vulnerability in Jenkins before 1.600 and LTS before 1.596.1 allows remote authenticated users with certain permissions to read arbitrary files via a symlink, related to building artifacts.
Near-miss passage: CVE-2015-2995. CWE: CWE-22. CVSS: 6.800000190734863. The RdsLogsEntry servlet in SysAid Help Desk before 15.2 does not properly check file extensions, which allows remote attackers to upload and execute arbitrary files via a NULL byte after the extension, as demonstrated by a .war%00 file.
Query: patch priority for CVE-2015-5395
Matching passage: CVE-2015-5395. CWE: CWE-352. CVSS: 8.800000190734863. Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in SOGo before 3.1.0.
Near-miss passage: CVE-2015-2680. CWE: CWE-352. CVSS: 6.800000190734863. Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in MetalGenix GeniXCMS before 0.0.2 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that add an administrator account via a request in the users page to gxadmin/index.php.
Query: risk of Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in Gecko CMS 2.2 and 2.3 allow remote administrators to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the (1) jak_delete_log[] or (2) ssp parameter to a
Matching passage: CVE-2015-1423. CWE: CWE-89. CVSS: 6.5. Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in Gecko CMS 2.2 and 2.3 allow remote administrators to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the (1) jak_delete_log[] or (2) ssp parameter to admin/index.php.
Near-miss passage: CVE-2015-3947. CWE: CWE-89. CVSS: 8.100000381469727. SQL injection vulnerability in Advantech WebAccess before 8.1 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary SQL commands via unspecified vectors.
Query: Sigma rule for Detects potentially suspicious file downloads directly from IP addresses using Wget.exe
Matching passage: Sigma rule: Detects potentially suspicious file downloads directly from IP addresses using Wget.exe. Logsource: windows / process_creation. Rule: title: Suspicious File Download From IP Via Wget.EXE id: 17f0c0a8-8bd5-4ee0-8c5f-a342c0199f35 status: test description: Detects potentially suspicious file downloads directly from IP addresses using Wget.exe references: - https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/wget.html author: Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems) date: 2023-07-27 tags: - attack.execution logsource: category: process_creation product: windows detection: selection_img: - Image|endswith: \wget.exe - OriginalFileName: wget.exe selection_ip: CommandLine|re: ://[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3} selection_http: CommandLine|contains: http selection_flag: - CommandLine|re: \s-O\s - CommandLine|contains: --output-document selection_ext: CommandLine|endswith: - .ps1 - .ps1' - .ps1" - .dat - .dat' - .dat" - .msi - .msi' - .msi" - .bat - .bat' - .bat" - .exe - .exe' - .exe" - .vbs - .vbs' - .vbs" - .vbe - .vbe' - .vbe" - .hta - .hta' - .hta" - .dll - .dll' - .dll" - .psm1 - .psm1' - .psm1" condition: all of selection_* falsepositives: - Unknown level: high
Near-miss passage: Sigma rule: Detects usage of the "Import-Module" cmdlet to load the "Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.dl" DLL. Which is often us. Logsource: windows / ps_script. Rule: title: Potential Active Directory Enumeration Using AD Module - PsScript id: 9e620995-f2d8-4630-8430-4afd89f77604 related: - id: 70bc5215-526f-4477-963c-a47a5c9ebd12 type: similar - id: 74176142-4684-4d8a-8b0a-713257e7df8e type: similar status: test description: Detects usage of the "Import-Module" cmdlet to load the "Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.dl" DLL. Which is often used by attackers to perform AD enumeration. references: - https://github.com/samratashok/ADModule - https://twitter.com/cyb3rops/status/1617108657166061568?s=20 - https://www.ired.team/offensive-security-experiments/active-directory-kerberos-abuse/active-directory-enumeration-with-ad-module-without-rsat-or-admin-privileges author: frack113, Nasreddine Bencherchali date: 2023-01-22 tags: - attack.reconnaissance - attack.discovery - attack.impact logsource: product: windows category: ps_script definition: 'Requirements: Script Block Logging must be enable' detection: selection_generic: ScriptBlockText|contains|all: - 'Import-Module ' - Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.dll selection_specific: ScriptBlockText|contains: ipmo Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.dll condition: 1 of selection_* falsepositives: - Legitimate use of the library for administrative activity level: medium
Query: risk of IOAcceleratorFamily in Apple iOS before 9.1, OS X before 10.11.1, and watchOS before 2.0.1 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruptio
Matching passage: CVE-2015-6996. CWE: CWE-119. CVSS: 6.800000190734863. IOAcceleratorFamily in Apple iOS before 9.1, OS X before 10.11.1, and watchOS before 2.0.1 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted app.
Near-miss passage: CVE-2015-8221. CWE: CWE-119. CVSS: 10.0. Integer overflow in Google Picasa before 3.9.140 Build 259 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the CAMF section in a FOVb image, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
Query: vulnerability: The TripleO Heat templates (tripleo-heat-templates), when deployed via the commandline interface, allow remote attackers to spoof OpenStack Networking metadata requests by leveragi
Matching passage: CVE-2015-5303. CWE: CWE-254. CVSS: 7.5. The TripleO Heat templates (tripleo-heat-templates), when deployed via the commandline interface, allow remote attackers to spoof OpenStack Networking metadata requests by leveraging knowledge of the default value of the NeutronMetadataProxySharedSecret parameter.
Near-miss passage: CVE-2015-5759. CWE: CWE-254. CVSS: 5.0. WebKit in Apple iOS before 8.4.1 allows remote attackers to spoof clicks via a crafted web site that leverages tap events.
Query: CVE similar to CVE-2015-1201
Matching passage: CVE-2015-1201. CWE: UNKNOWN. CVSS: 5.0. Privoxy before 3.0.22 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (file descriptor consumption) via unspecified vectors. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.
Near-miss passage: CVE-2015-0346. CWE: UNKNOWN. CVSS: 10.0. Double free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.281 and 14.x through 17.x before 17.0.0.169 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.457 on Linux allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-0359.
Query: describe CVE-2015-1287
Matching passage: CVE-2015-1287. CWE: CWE-17. CVSS: 4.300000190734863. Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 44.0.2403.89, enables a quirks-mode exception that limits the cases in which a Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) document is required to have the text/css content type, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via a crafted web site, related to core/fetch/CSSStyleSheetResource.cpp.
Near-miss passage: CVE-2015-7192. CWE: CWE-17. CVSS: 7.5. The accessibility-tools feature in Mozilla Firefox before 42.0 on OS X improperly interacts with the implementation of the TABLE element, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code by using an NSAccessibilityIndexAttribute value to reference a row index.
Query: campaign using Artificial Intelligence
Matching passage: T1588.007 Artificial Intelligence. Tactics: resource development. Description: Adversaries may obtain access to generative artificial intelligence tools, such as large language models (LLMs), to aid various techniques during targeting. These tools may be used to inform, bolster, and enable a variety of malicious tasks, including conducting [Reconnaissance](https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0043), creating basic scripts, assisting social engineering, and even developing payloads.(Citation: MSFT-AI) For example, by utilizing a publicly available LLM an adversary is essentially outsourcing or automating certain tasks to the tool. Using AI, the adversary may draft and generate content in a variety of written languages to be used in [Phishing](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1566)/[Phishing for Information](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1598) campaigns. The same publicly available tool may further enable vulnerability or other offensive research supporting [Develop Capabilities](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1587). AI tools may also automate technical tasks by generating, refining, or otherwise enhancing (e.g., [Obfuscated Files or Information](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1027)) malicious scripts and payloads.(Citation: OpenAI-CTI) Finally, AI-generated text, images, audio, and video may be used for fraud, [Impersonation](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1684/001), and other malicious activities.(Citation: Google-Vishing24)(Citation: IC3-AI24)(Citation: WSJ-Vishing-AI24)
Near-miss passage: T1588.003 Code Signing Certificates. Tactics: resource development. Description: Adversaries may buy and/or steal code signing certificates that can be used during targeting. Code signing is the process of digitally signing executables and scripts to confirm the software author and guarantee that the code has not been altered or corrupted. Code signing provides a level of authenticity for a program from the developer and a guarantee that the program has not been tampered with.(Citation: Wikipedia Code Signing) Users and/or security tools may trust a signed piece of code more than an unsigned piece of code even if they don't know who issued the certificate or who the author is. Prior to [Code Signing](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1553/002), adversaries may purchase or steal code signing certificates for use in operations. The purchase of code signing certificates may be done using a front organization or using information stolen from a previously compromised entity that allows the adversary to validate to a certificate provider as that entity. Adversaries may also steal code signing materials directly from a compromised third-party.
Query: rule covering Adversaries may modify system firewalls in order to bypass controls limiting network usage
Matching passage: Sigma rule: Adversaries may modify system firewalls in order to bypass controls limiting network usage. Logsource: windows / process_creation. Rule: title: Netsh Allow Group Policy on Microsoft Defender Firewall id: 347906f3-e207-4d18-ae5b-a9403d6bcdef status: test description: Adversaries may modify system firewalls in order to bypass controls limiting network usage references: - https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/f339e7da7d05f6057fdfcdd3742bfcf365fee2a9/atomics/T1562.004/T1562.004.md#atomic-test-3---allow-smb-and-rdp-on-microsoft-defender-firewall - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/networking/netsh-advfirewall-firewall-control-firewall-behavior author: frack113 date: 2022-01-09 modified: 2023-02-14 tags: - attack.defense-impairment - attack.t1686.003 logsource: category: process_creation product: windows detection: selection_img: - Image|endswith: \netsh.exe - OriginalFileName: netsh.exe selection_cli: CommandLine|contains|all: - advfirewall - firewall - set - rule - group= - new - enable=Yes condition: all of selection_* falsepositives: - Legitimate administration activity level: medium
Near-miss passage: Sigma rule: Detects changes to the "MaxMpxCt" registry value. MaxMpxCt specifies the maximum outstanding network requests for the se. Logsource: windows / registry_set. Rule: title: MaxMpxCt Registry Value Changed id: 0e6a9e62-627e-496c-aef5-bfa39da29b5e status: test description: 'Detects changes to the "MaxMpxCt" registry value. MaxMpxCt specifies the maximum outstanding network requests for the server per client, which is used when negotiating a Server Message Block (SMB) connection with a client. Note if the value is set beyond 125 older Windows 9x clients will fail to negotiate. Ransomware threat actors and operators (specifically BlackCat) were seen increasing this value in order to handle a higher volume of traffic. ' references: - https://www.huntress.com/blog/blackcat-ransomware-affiliate-ttps - https://securityscorecard.com/research/deep-dive-into-alphv-blackcat-ransomware - https://www.intrinsec.com/alphv-ransomware-gang-analysis/?cn-reloaded=1 - https://www.sentinelone.com/labs/blackcat-ransomware-highly-configurable-rust-driven-raas-on-the-prowl-for-victims/ author: Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems) date: 2024-03-19 tags: - attack.stealth - attack.t1070.005 logsource: category: registry_set product: windows detection: selection: TargetObject|endswith: \Services\LanmanServer\Parameters\MaxMpxCt condition: selection falsepositives: - Unknown level: low