title: SAM Dump to AppData
id: 839dd1e8-eda8-4834-8145-01beeee33acd
status: test
description: Detects suspicious SAM dump activity as cause by QuarksPwDump and other password dumpers
author: Florian Roth
date: 2018/01/27
modified: 2022/04/14
logsource:
  product: windows
  service: system
  definition: The source of this type of event is Kernel-General
detection:
  selection:
    Provider_Name: Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-General
    EventID: 16
  keywords:
    - '\AppData\Local\Temp\SAM-'
    - '.dmp'
  condition: selection and all of keywords
falsepositives:
  - Unknown
level: high
tags:
  - attack.credential_access
  - attack.t1003.002