Delete Volume USN Journal with Fsutiledit

Identifies use of the fsutil.exe to delete the USNJRNL volume. This technique is used by attackers to eliminate evidence of files created during post-exploitation activities.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

  • winlogbeat-*

Severity: low

Risk score: 21

Runs every: 5 minutes

Searches indices from: now-6m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum signals per execution: 100

Tags:

  • Elastic
  • Windows

Version: 2 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.6.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 7.7.0

Rule queryedit

event.action:"Process Create (rule: ProcessCreate)" and
process.name:fsutil.exe and process.args:(deletejournal and usn)

Threat mappingedit

Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

Rule version historyedit

Version 2 (7.7.0 release)

Updated query, changed from:

event.action:"Process Create (rule: ProcessCreate)" and
process.name:"fsutil.exe" and process.args:("usn" and "deletejournal")