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Description

The following analytic detects suspicious file access within the Discord LevelDB database. This database contains critical data such as user profiles, messages, guilds, channels, settings, and cached information. Access to this data poses a risk of Discord credential theft or unauthorized access to sensitive information on the compromised system. Detecting such anomalies can serve as an effective pivot to identify non-Discord applications accessing this database, potentially indicating the presence of malware or trojan stealers aimed at data theft.

  • Type: Anomaly

  • Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk Cloud

  • Last Updated: 2024-02-16
  • Author: Teoderick Contreras, Splunk
  • ID: 1166360c-d495-45ac-87a6-8948aac1fa07

Annotations

ATT&CK

ATT&CK

ID Technique Tactic
T1012 Query Registry Discovery
Kill Chain Phase
  • Exploitation
NIST
  • DE.AE
CIS20
  • CIS 10
CVE 


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`wineventlog_security` EventCode=4663 object_file_path IN ("*\\discord\\Local Storage\\leveldb*") AND process_name != *\\discord.exe AND NOT (process_path IN ("*:\\Windows\\System32\\*", "*:\\Windows\\SysWow64\\*", "*:\\Program Files*", "*:\\Windows\\*")) 
| stats count min(_time) as firstTime max(_time) as lastTime by object_file_name object_file_path process_name process_path  process_id EventCode dest 
| `security_content_ctime(firstTime)` 
| `security_content_ctime(lastTime)` 
| `windows_non_discord_app_access_discord_leveldb_filter`

Macros

The SPL above uses the following Macros:

:information_source: windows_non_discord_app_access_discord_leveldb_filter is a empty macro by default. It allows the user to filter out any results (false positives) without editing the SPL.

Required fields

List of fields required to use this analytic.

  • _time
  • object_file_name
  • object_file_path
  • process_name
  • process_path
  • process_id
  • EventCode
  • dest

How To Implement

To successfully implement this search, you must ingest Windows Security Event logs and track event code 4663. For 4663, enable "Audit Object Access" in Group Policy. Then check the two boxes listed for both "Success" and "Failure."

Known False Positives

unknown

Associated Analytic Story

RBA

Risk Score Impact Confidence Message
9.0 30 30 A non-discord process $process_name$ accessing discord "leveldb" file on $dest$

:information_source: The Risk Score is calculated by the following formula: Risk Score = (Impact * Confidence/100). Initial Confidence and Impact is set by the analytic author.

Reference

Test Dataset

Replay any dataset to Splunk Enterprise by using our replay.py tool or the UI. Alternatively you can replay a dataset into a Splunk Attack Range

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