Service Startup Type Change Via WmicEXE

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About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Detects changes to service startup type to 'disabled' or 'manual' using the WMIC command-line utility.

Severity

Attention

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND ( ( PROCESSNAME endswith "\wmic.exe" OR ORIGINALFILENAME = "wmic.exe" ) AND COMMANDLINE contains "service " AND COMMANDLINE contains "changestartmode " AND COMMANDLINE contains "disabled,manual" ) 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

@Swachchhanda Shrawan Poudel (Nextron Systems)