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It is our hope that our work will increase awareness of these attacks, motivate organizations to enhance their detection and monitoring capabilities, and drive additional research. Ryan Kazanciyan is a Technical Director with Mandiant and has eleven years of experience in incident response, forensic analysis, and penetration testing.

Since joining Mandiant in , he has led investigation and remediation efforts for dozens of Fortune organizations, focusing on targeted attacks, industrial espionage, and financial crime. Based in the Washington D. C area, Matt focuses on enterprise-wide incident response, high-tech crime investigations, penetration testing, strategic corporate security development, and security control assessments; working with the Federal government, defense industrial base, financial industry, Fortune companies, and global organizations.

It provides: A built-in mechanism for remote command execution The ability to execute malicious code without ever touching disk The ability to evade many Anti-Virus and Intrusion Prevention Systems Full access to WMI and. NET Framework The unauthorized use of PowerShell presents several challenges to forensic analysts and system administrators alike: As a legitimate component of Windows, PowerShell execution does not necessarily indicate malicious behavior.

PowerShell 2. PowerShell 3. PowerShell remoting sessions occur in ephemeral process memory with few-to-no persistent artifacts. Many system administrators and security professionals remain unfamiliar with PowerShell and its management or security controls. By local PowerShell script execution? Which domain accounts use PowerShell remoting? What are the source hostnames from which these users would administer systems? What are the names and common directories used for legitimate PowerShell scripts within the environment?

Are legitimate scripts used by the organization digitally signed? In this blog post I'll be providing an alternative reliable method for detecting malicious at scale using a feature built into the older PowerShell module logging via the 'Windows PowerShell' log channel and event ID These logs are often overlooked in favour of the newer module logs however in my testing, the logs were unable to provide any details around the execution of specifically the Invoke-Expression cmdlet.

In addition, the script-block and transcript logs only displayed the obfuscated or aliased cmdlet details, making detection difficult. If you've never check it out you can read more about on Lee's blog here. I'll be using some very basic obfuscation and also an alternative alias for Invoke-Expression to show how no matter what is provided on the command line, the older Event ID PowerShell module logs provide the defender with the result of which cmdlet was run.

Before moving onto some demos, if you'd like to replicate this in your lab you'll need to ensure to configure the appropriate PowerShell logging and for that I would recommend following FireEye's blog post here.

Okay, let's look at some examples In the screenshot above you can see the exact command that was executed and the fact that both command line values in EID and EID are identical. The Get-WinEvent cmdlet gets log information from the archived file. The Oldest parameter is used to output events in the order they are written, oldest to newest. The objects are sent down the pipeline to the Sort-Object cmdlet Sort-Object sorts the objects in descending order by the value of the TimeCreated property.

The objects are sent down the pipeline to the Select-Object cmdlet that displays the newest events. This example shows how to get the events from an event trace log file.

You can combine multiple file types in a single command. Because the files contain the same type of. The command requires the Oldest parameter because it is reading from an.

The Get-WinEvent cmdlet gets log information from the archived files. The Path parameter uses a comma-separated list to specify each files directory and file name. Where-Object uses a script block to find events with an Id of This example shows a variety of methods to filter and select events from an event log.

All of these commands get events that occurred in the last hours from the Windows PowerShell event log. The filter methods are more efficient than using the Where-Object cmdlet. Filters are applied as the objects are retrieved. Where-Object retrieves all of the objects, then applies filters to all of the objects. This example uses the FilterHashtable parameter to get events from the Application log.

The Get-Date cmdlet uses the AddDays method to get a date that is two days before the current date. The Get-WinEvent cmdlet gets log information. The FilterHashtable parameter is used to filter the output. The LogName key specifies the value as the Application log. The Id key uses an Event Id value, This example uses the FilterHashtable parameter to find Internet Explorer application errors that occurred within the last week. The Get-Date cmdlet uses the AddDays method to get a date that is seven days before the current date.

The Data key uses the value iexplore. Like Example 16 above, this example uses the FilterHashtable parameter to get events from the Application log. However, we add the SuppressHashFilter key to filter out Information level events. In this example, Get-WinEvent gets all events from the Application log for the last two days except those that have a Level of 4 Information.

Specifies the name of the computer that this cmdlet gets events from the event logs. The default value is the local computer, localhost. This parameter accepts only one computer name at a time. To get event logs from remote computers, configure the firewall port for the event log service to allow remote access.

This cmdlet does not rely on PowerShell remoting. You can use the ComputerName parameter even if your computer is not configured to run remote commands.

Specifies a user account that has permission to perform this action. The default value is the current user. If you type a user name, you are prompted for a password. If you type only the parameter name, you are prompted for both a username and a password. Specifies a query in hash table format to select events from one or more event logs.

You may also create a Suppress element using the FilterHashtable parameter. Gets debug and analytic logs, in addition to other event logs. The Force parameter is required to get a debug or analytic log when the value of the name parameter includes wildcard characters. By default, the Get-WinEvent cmdlet excludes these logs unless you specify the full name of a debug or analytic log.

Specifies the event logs. Enter the event log names in a comma-separated list. Wildcards are permitted. Specifies the event log providers that this cmdlet gets.

An event log provider is a program or service that writes events to the event log. Enter the provider names in a comma-separated list. Specifies the event logs that this cmdlet get events from. You can also pipe log names to the Get-WinEvent cmdlet. PowerShell does not limit the amount of logs you can request. This can make it difficult to filter through all of your logs at one time. Specifies the maximum number of events that are returned. Enter an integer such as The default is to return all the events in the logs or files.

Indicate that this cmdlet gets the events in oldest-first order.