Potential CVE-2022-22954 Exploitation Attempt - VMware Workspace ONE Access Remote Code Execution

    Date: 09/30/2024

    Severity: Medium

    Summary

    Identifies a possible exploitation attempt of CVE-2022-22954, a remote code execution vulnerability in VMware Workspace ONE Access and Identity Manager. According to Morphisec, during the attack, threat actors utilized PowerShell commands that ran as child processes of the legitimate Tomcat "prunsrv.exe" application.

    Indicators of Compromise (IOC) List

    Image

    '\powershell.exe'

    '\cmd.exe'

    ParentImage

    '\prunsrv.exe'

    CommandLine

    '/c powershell'

    Gurucul Threat Detection and Incident Response (TDIR) Queries for Detection

    Detection Query 1

    (((resourcename in ("Sysmon") AND eventtype = "1") AND image IN ("\powershell.exe","\cmd.exe")) AND parentimage = "\prunsrv.exe" AND commandline = "/c powershell")

    Detection Query 2

    (((technologygroup = "EDR") AND image IN ("\powershell.exe","\cmd.exe")) AND parentimage = "\prunsrv.exe" AND commandline = "/c powershell")

    Detection Query 3

    (((resourcename in ("Windows Security" ) AND eventtype = "4688") AND image IN ("\powershell.exe","\cmd.exe")) AND parentimage = "\prunsrv.exe" AND commandline = "/c powershell")

    Detection Query 4

    (((technologygroup = "EDR") AND image IN ("\powershell.exe","\cmd.exe")) AND parentimage = "\prunsrv.exe" AND commandline = "/c powershell")


    Reference: 

    https://github.com/SigmaHQ/sigma/blob/master/rules-emerging-threats/2022/Exploits/CVE-2022-22954/proc_creation_win_exploit_cve_2022_22954_vmware_workspace_one_rce.yml


    Tags

    SigmaExploitMalwareCVE-2022

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