Malicious Service Installations
Detects known malicious service installs that only appear in cases of lateral movement, credential dumping, and other suspicious activities.
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1title: Malicious Service Installations
2id: 2cfe636e-317a-4bee-9f2c-1066d9f54d1a
3description: Detects known malicious service installs that only appear in cases of lateral movement, credential dumping, and other suspicious activities.
4author: Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), Daniil Yugoslavskiy, oscd.community (update)
5date: 2017/03/27
6modified: 2022/03/21
7references:
8 - https://awakesecurity.com/blog/threat-hunting-for-paexec/
9 - https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2017/05/wannacry-malware-profile.html
10 - https://blog.f-secure.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CosmicDuke.pdf
11tags:
12 - attack.persistence
13 - attack.privilege_escalation
14 - attack.t1003
15 - attack.t1035 # an old one
16 - attack.t1050 # an old one
17 - car.2013-09-005
18 - attack.t1543.003
19 - attack.t1569.002
20logsource:
21 product: windows
22 service: system
23detection:
24 selection:
25 Provider_Name: 'Service Control Manager'
26 EventID: 7045
27 malsvc_paexec:
28 ImagePath|contains: '\PAExec'
29 malsvc_wannacry:
30 ServiceName: 'mssecsvc2.0'
31 malsvc_persistence:
32 ImagePath|contains: 'net user'
33 malsvc_apt29:
34 ServiceName: 'Java(TM) Virtual Machine Support Service'
35 condition: selection and 1 of malsvc_*
36falsepositives:
37 - Unknown
38level: critical
39status: unsupported```
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