win:sysmon 18
PipeEvent (Pipe Connected)
This event logs when a named pipe connection is made between a client and a server.
- Log source
- Sysmon
- Host type
- Windows (workstation, member server, domain controller)
- How to enable
- Install Sysmon with a configuration that includes the matching rule group; see sysmon-modular for an ATT&CK-mapped configuration.
- Tier, host type
- Recommended
- Techniques
- 0
- Rules depending on it
- Splunk 9, Sigma 20, Microsoft Sentinel 3
Why this tier
By role
| Role | Tier | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Windows workstation | Recommended | |
| Windows member server | Recommended | |
| Windows domain controller | Recommended | |
| Windows web server (IIS), internet-facing | Recommended |
Techniques it helps detect
No ATT&CK analytic names this event.
Rules that depend on it
Splunk 9
- Trickbot Named Pipe
- Windows Anonymous Pipe Activity
- Windows App Layer Protocol Qakbot NamedPipe
- Windows App Layer Protocol Wermgr Connect To NamedPipe
- Windows Application Layer Protocol RMS Radmin Tool Namedpipe
- Windows PUA Named Pipe
- Windows RMM Named Pipe
- Windows Suspicious C2 Named Pipe
- Windows Suspicious Named Pipe
Sigma 20
- ADFS Database Named Pipe Connection By Uncommon Tool by Roberto Rodriguez @Cyb3rWard0g
- Alternate PowerShell Hosts Pipe by Roberto Rodriguez @Cyb3rWard0g, Tim Shelton
- CobaltStrike Named Pipe by Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), Wojciech Lesicki
- CobaltStrike Named Pipe Pattern Regex by Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
- CobaltStrike Named Pipe Patterns by Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), Christian Burkard (Nextron Systems)
- HackTool - CoercedPotato Named Pipe Creation by Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
- HackTool - Credential Dumping Tools Named Pipe Created by Teymur Kheirkhabarov, oscd.community
- HackTool - DiagTrackEoP Default Named Pipe by Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
- HackTool - EfsPotato Named Pipe Creation by Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
- HackTool - Koh Default Named Pipe by Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
- Malicious Named Pipe Created by Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), blueteam0ps, elhoim
- New PowerShell Instance Created by Roberto Rodriguez (Cyb3rWard0g), OTR (Open Threat Research)
- PUA - CSExec Default Named Pipe by Nikita Nazarov, oscd.community, Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
- PUA - PAExec Default Named Pipe by Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
- PUA - RemCom Default Named Pipe by Nikita Nazarov, oscd.community, Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
- PsExec Default Named Pipe by Thomas Patzke
- PsExec Tool Execution From Suspicious Locations - PipeName by Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
- RedSun - Named Pipe Created by Swachchhanda Shrawan Poudel (Nextron Systems), @unresolvedhost
- Turla Group Named Pipes by Markus Neis
- WMI Event Consumer Created Named Pipe by Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
Standards and guidance naming it
| Requirement | Relation | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| OMB M-26-14: Attack vectors and lateral movementAppendix B item 5(10) | Supports an activity | our analysis |
EDR events that stand in for it
Full: the sensor event carries what this event carries. Partial: the sensor reports a subset, so it does not replace the event.
| Product | Sensor event | Fidelity | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Defender for Endpoint device tables | DeviceEvents | Full | pySigma-backend-kusto: pipe -> DeviceEvents (ActionType NamedPipeEvent) |