Potential Persistence Attempt Via Existing Service Tampering

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Applies to: Log360Log360 Cloud

About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Detects the modification of an existing service in order to execute an arbitrary payload when the service is started or killed as a potential method for persistence.

Severity

Trouble

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND ((COMMANDLINE contains "sc " AND COMMANDLINE contains "config " AND COMMANDLINE contains "binpath=") OR (COMMANDLINE contains "sc " AND COMMANDLINE contains "failure" AND COMMANDLINE contains "command=")) OR (((COMMANDLINE contains "reg " AND COMMANDLINE contains "add " AND COMMANDLINE contains "FailureCommand") OR (COMMANDLINE contains "reg " AND COMMANDLINE contains "add " AND COMMANDLINE contains "ImagePath")) AND COMMANDLINE contains ".sh,.exe,.dll,.bin$,.bat,.cmd,.js,.msh$,.reg$,.scr,.ps,.vb,.jar,.pl") 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

Sreeman