Abuse of Service Permissions to Hide Services Via Set-Service

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About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Detects usage of the "Set-Service" powershell cmdlet to configure a new SecurityDescriptor that allows a service to be hidden from other utilities such as "sc.exe", "Get-Service"...etc. (Works only in powershell 7)

Severity

Trouble

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND (PROCESSNAME endswith "\pwsh.exe" OR ORIGINALFILENAME = "pwsh.dll") AND (COMMANDLINE contains "Set-Service " AND COMMANDLINE contains "DCLCWPDTSD") AND COMMANDLINE contains "-SecurityDescriptorSddl ,-sd " select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.COMMANDLINE,Action1.FILE_NAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.USERNAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSNAME

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

Windows

Author

Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)