Suspicious File Renamed via SMB

Last updated a year ago on 2025-02-14
Created 2 years ago on 2024-05-02

About

Identifies an incoming SMB connection followed by a suspicious file rename operation. This may indicate a remote ransomware attack via the SMB protocol.
Tags
Domain: EndpointOS: WindowsUse Case: Threat DetectionTactic: ImpactData Source: Elastic DefendLanguage: eql
Severity
high
Risk Score
73
MITRE ATT&CK™

Impact (TA0040)(external, opens in a new tab or window)

Lateral Movement (TA0008)(external, opens in a new tab or window)

License
Elastic License v2(external, opens in a new tab or window)

Definition

Rule Type
Event Correlation Rule
Integration Pack
Prebuilt Security Detection Rules
Index Patterns
logs-endpoint.events.file-*logs-endpoint.events.network-*
Related Integrations

endpoint(external, opens in a new tab or window)

Query
text code block:
sequence by host.id with maxspan=1s [network where host.os.type == "windows" and event.action == "connection_accepted" and destination.port == 445 and source.port >= 49152 and process.pid == 4 and source.ip != "127.0.0.1" and source.ip != "::1" and network.type == "ipv4" and not endswith(source.address, destination.address)] [file where host.os.type == "windows" and event.action == "rename" and process.pid == 4 and user.id : ("S-1-5-21*", "S-1-12-*") and file.extension != null and file.Ext.entropy >= 6 and file.path : "C:\\Users\\*" and file.Ext.original.name : ("*.jpg", "*.bmp", "*.png", "*.pdf", "*.doc", "*.docx", "*.xls", "*.xlsx", "*.ppt", "*.pptx", "*.lnk") and not file.extension : ("jpg", "bmp", "png", "pdf", "doc", "docx", "xls", "xlsx", "ppt", "pptx", "*.lnk")] with runs=3

Install detection rules in Elastic Security

Detect Suspicious File Renamed via SMB in the Elastic Security detection engine by installing this rule into your Elastic Stack.

To setup this rule, check out the installation guide for Prebuilt Security Detection Rules(external, opens in a new tab or window).