Default Impacket Service Creation Via Registry Keys (RedCanary Threat Detection Report)

 1title: Default Impacket Service Creation Via Registry Keys (RedCanary Threat Detection Report)
 2id: 187ac7b5-f919-446b-93b3-cde8a6506d64
 3status: experimental
 4description: Detects registry key creation matching default Impacket default naming convention. Part of the RedCanary 2023 Threat Detection Report.
 5references:
 6    - https://redcanary.com/threat-detection-report/techniques/windows-admin-shares/
 7author: RedCanary, Sigma formatting by Micah Babinski
 8date: 2023/05/10
 9tags:
10    - attack.lateral_movement
11    - attack.t1021.002
12logsource:
13    category: registry_add
14    product: windows
15detection:
16    selection:
17        Image|endswith: '\services.exe'
18        EventType: 'CreateKey'
19        TargetObject: 'HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\BTOBTO'
20    condition: selection
21falsepositives:
22    - Unknown
23level: low```

References

• SMB/Windows Admin Shares - Red Canary Threat Report

  

  Adversaries abuse Windows Admin Shares and the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol to move laterally and stage payloads for execution.

  
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