dump sales quote payment

Hunt Hypothesis

The dump sales quote payment rule detects potential exfiltration of sensitive sales data through suspicious file dumping behavior, which may indicate an adversary attempting to steal or manipulate financial information. SOC teams should proactively hunt for this behavior in Azure Sentinel to identify early signs of data theft or insider threats targeting sales and payment processes.

YARA Rule

rule dump_sales_quote_payment {
    strings: $ = "include '../../../../../../../../../../app/Mage.php'; Mage::app(); $q = Mage::getModel('sales/quote_payment')->getCollection();"
    condition: any of them
}

Deployment Notes

This YARA rule can be deployed in the following contexts:

• Microsoft Defender for Endpoint — Custom indicators / advanced hunting
• Email Gateway — Attachment scanning
• File Share Monitoring — Periodic scanning of shared drives
• YARA CLI — Manual threat hunting on endpoints

This rule contains 1 string patterns in its detection logic.

• Source Rule

False Positive Guidance

• Scenario: A system administrator is using PowerShell to generate a sales quote report for internal review.
  Filter/Exclusion: process.name != "powershell.exe" or check for process.parent.name == "Windows Explorer" or process.command_line contains "generate-report"

• Scenario: A scheduled job runs nightly to export sales data to a CSV file using SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS).
  Filter/Exclusion: process.name contains "sqlservr.exe" or process.command_line contains "SSIS"

• Scenario: A third-party payment gateway (e.g., Stripe) is processing a test transaction during a development environment.
  Filter/Exclusion: process.name contains "stripe-cli" or process.command_line contains "test-transaction"

• Scenario: A DevOps engineer is using Ansible to deploy a sales quote module to multiple servers.
  Filter/Exclusion: process.name contains "ansible" or process.command_line contains "deploy-sales-module"

• Scenario: An IT support technician is using Logon Script to automate payment confirmation emails via Outlook.
  Filter/Exclusion: process.name contains "outlook.exe" or process.command_line contains "send-mail" or check for process.parent.name == "explorer.exe"