Suspicious Recursive Takeown

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About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Adversaries can interact with the DACLs using built-in Windows commands takeown which can grant adversaries higher permissions on specific files and folders

Severity

Trouble

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND PROCESSNAME endswith "\takeown.exe" AND (COMMANDLINE contains "/f " AND COMMANDLINE contains "/r") select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.COMMANDLINE,Action1.FILE_NAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.USERNAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSNAME

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

Windows

Author

frack113