Replace Desktop Wallpaper by Powershell

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About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

An adversary may deface systems internal to an organization in an attempt to intimidate or mislead users. This may take the form of modifications to internal websites, or directly to user systems with the replacement of the desktop wallpaper

Severity

Attention

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "PowerShell Script Block Logged" AND (SCRIPTEXECUTED contains "Get-ItemProperty" AND SCRIPTEXECUTED contains "Registry::" AND SCRIPTEXECUTED contains "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop" AND SCRIPTEXECUTED contains "WallPaper") OR SCRIPTEXECUTED contains "SystemParametersInfo(20,0,*,3)" select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.SCRIPTEXECUTED

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

Windows

Author

frack113