Searching for Passwords in Files

Adversaries may search local file systems and remote file shares for files containing passwords.

id:62b7273b-67b2-4698-95b5-f6fafabc3390
categories:detect
confidence:low
os:windows
created:7/26/2019
updated:7/26/2019

MITRE ATT&CK™ Mapping

tactics:Credential Access
techniques:T1081 Credentials in Files

Query

process where subtype.create and
  process_name == "findstr.exe" and command_line == "*password*"
| unique parent_process_name, command_line

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