LSA PPL Protection Disabled Via Reg.EXE

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Applies to: Log360Log360 Cloud

About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Detects the usage of the "reg.exe" utility to disable PPL protection on the LSA process

Severity

Trouble

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND (PROCESSNAME endswith "\reg.exe" OR ORIGINALFILENAME = "reg.exe") AND (COMMANDLINE contains "SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa" AND (COMMANDLINE contains " add " AND COMMANDLINE contains " /d 0" AND COMMANDLINE contains " /v RunAsPPL ")) select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.COMMANDLINE,Action1.FILE_NAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.USERNAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSNAME,Action1.DOMAIN,Action1.ORIGINALFILENAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSID,Action1.PROCESSID,Action1.PRODUCT_NAME,Action1.SECURITYID

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

Windows

Author

Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)