Potential Persistence Attempt Via Existing Service Tampering
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About the rule
Rule Type
Standard
Rule Description
Detects the modification of an existing service in order to execute an arbitrary payload when the service is started or killed as a potential method for persistence.
Severity
Trouble
Rule Requirement
Criteria
Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND ((COMMANDLINE contains "sc " AND COMMANDLINE contains "config " AND COMMANDLINE contains "binpath=") OR (COMMANDLINE contains "sc " AND COMMANDLINE contains "failure" AND COMMANDLINE contains "command=")) OR (((COMMANDLINE contains "reg " AND COMMANDLINE contains "add " AND COMMANDLINE contains "FailureCommand") OR (COMMANDLINE contains "reg " AND COMMANDLINE contains "add " AND COMMANDLINE contains "ImagePath")) AND COMMANDLINE contains ".sh,.exe,.dll,.bin$,.bat,.cmd,.js,.msh$,.reg$,.scr,.ps,.vb,.jar,.pl") select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.COMMANDLINE,Action1.FILE_NAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.USERNAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSNAME
Detection
Execution Mode
realtime
Log Sources
Windows
Author
Sreeman
