title: Suspicious Export-PfxCertificate author: Florian Roth date: 2021/04/23 description: Detects Commandlet that is used to export certificates from the local certificate store and sometimes used by threat actors to steal private keys from compromised machines detection: SELECTION_1: ScriptBlockText: '*Export-PfxCertificate*' condition: SELECTION_1 falsepositives: - Legitimate certificate exports invoked by administrators or users (depends on processes in the environment - filter if unusable) id: aa7a3fce-bef5-4311-9cc1-5f04bb8c308c level: high logsource: category: ps_script definition: Script Block Logging must be enable product: windows modified: 2021/08/04 references: - https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/analysis-reports/ar21-112a - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/pki/export-pfxcertificate status: experimental tags: - attack.credential_access - attack.t1552.004 yml_filename: powershell_suspicious_export_pfxcertificate.yml yml_path: /Users/user/Documents/YamatoSecurity/sigma/rules/windows/powershell/powershell_script