Potential Suspicious Activity Using SeCEdit
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About the rule
Rule Type
Standard
Rule Description
Detects potential suspicious behaviour using secedit.exe. Such as exporting or modifying the security policy
Severity
Trouble
Rule Requirement
Criteria
Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND (PROCESSNAME endswith "\secedit.exe" OR ORIGINALFILENAME = "SeCEdit") AND ((COMMANDLINE contains "/export" AND COMMANDLINE contains "/cfg") OR (COMMANDLINE contains "/configure" AND COMMANDLINE contains "/db")) select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.COMMANDLINE,Action1.FILE_NAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.USERNAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSNAME
Detection
Execution Mode
realtime
Log Sources
Windows
Author
Janantha Marasinghe
