Creation Exe for Service with Unquoted Path

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About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Adversaries may execute their own malicious payloads by hijacking vulnerable file path references. Adversaries can take advantage of paths that lack surrounding quotations by placing an executable in a higher level directory within the path, so that Windows will choose the adversary's executable to launch.

Severity

Trouble

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "File Created or Modified" AND FILENAME = "C:\program.exe" OR OBJECTNAME = "C:\program.exe" select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.USERNAME,Action1.DOMAIN,Action1.OBJECTNAME,Action1.FILENAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

Windows

Author

frack113