BIOC Medium

PowerShell dumps users and roles from Exchange server

PowerShell is used to dump users and roles from Exchange servers, this may indicate malicious behavior (e.g. the SolarStorm campaign).

Module:
Platform Analytics
Agent event type:
Process execution
Category:
Discovery
Status:
Enabled
ATT&CK tactics: Discovery (TA0007)
ATT&CK techniques: Account Discovery: Email Account (T1087.003) Permission Groups Discovery: Domain Groups (T1069.002)
Indicator:

Process action type = execution AND target process cmd =~ .*PSConsoleFile.*(Get-ManagementRoleAssignment|GetEffectiveUsers).*(Name|Role|EffectiveUserName|AssignmentMethod|IsValid).* AND target process name = powershell.exe Host host os = windows

Preventable: yes