Control Panel Items

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About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Detects the malicious use of a control panel item

Severity

Trouble

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND ((PROCESSNAME endswith "\reg.exe" OR ORIGINALFILENAME = "reg.exe") AND (COMMANDLINE contains "add" AND COMMANDLINE contains "CurrentVersion\Control Panel\CPLs")) OR (COMMANDLINE endswith ".cpl" AND (COMMANDLINE notcontains "\System32\,%System%,|C:\Windows\system32|" AND (COMMANDLINE notcontains "regsvr32 " OR COMMANDLINE notcontains " /s " OR COMMANDLINE notcontains "igfxCPL.cpl"))) select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.COMMANDLINE,Action1.FILE_NAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.USERNAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSNAME

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

Windows

Author

Kyaw Min Thein, Furkan Caliskan (@caliskanfurkan_)