Potential Persistence Via DLLPathOverride

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About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Detects when an attacker adds a new "DLLPathOverride" value to the "Natural Language" key in order to achieve persistence which will get invoked by "SearchIndexer.exe" process

Severity

Trouble

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "Registry value modified" AND (OBJECTNAME contains "\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ContentIndex\Language" OR (OBJECTNAME endswith "\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ContentIndex\Language" AND isExist(OBJECTVALUENAME))) AND (OBJECTNAME contains "\StemmerDLLPathOverride,\WBDLLPathOverride,\StemmerClass,\WBreakerClass" OR (OBJECTNAME contains "\StemmerDLLPathOverride,\WBDLLPathOverride,\StemmerClass,\WBreakerClass" OR OBJECTVALUENAME contains "\StemmerDLLPathOverride,\WBDLLPathOverride,\StemmerClass,\WBreakerClass")) select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.OBJECTNAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.PREVVAL,Action1.CHANGES

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

Windows

Author

Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)