Permission Check Via Accesschk.EXE

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About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Detects the usage of the "Accesschk" utility, an access and privilege audit tool developed by SysInternal and often being abused by attacker to verify process privileges

Severity

Trouble

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND (PRODUCT_NAME endswith "AccessChk" OR MESSAGE contains "Reports effective permissions" OR PROCESSNAME endswith "\accesschk.exe,\accesschk64.exe" OR ORIGINALFILENAME = "accesschk.exe") AND COMMANDLINE contains "uwcqv ,kwsu ,qwsu ,uwdqs " select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.COMMANDLINE,Action1.FILE_NAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.USERNAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSNAME

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

Windows

Author

Teymur Kheirkhabarov (idea), Mangatas Tondang, oscd.community, Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)