LSA PPL Protection Setting Modification via CommandLine

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About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Detects modification of LSA PPL protection settings via CommandLine.

Severity

Trouble

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND (( PROCESSNAME endswith "\reg.exe,\powershell.exe,\pwsh.exe,\powershell_ise.exe" OR ORIGINALFILENAME = "reg.exe,powershell.exe,pwsh.dll,powershell_ise.exe" ) AND COMMANDLINE contains "ControlSet" AND COMMANDLINE contains "\Control\Lsa" AND COMMANDLINE contains "Set-ItemProperty,New-ItemProperty, add " AND COMMANDLINE contains "IsPplAutoEnabled,RunAsPPL,RunAsPPLBoot" ) 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

@Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), Swachchhanda Shrawan Poudel (Nextron Systems)