New PDQDeploy Service - Server Side
Detects a PDQDeploy service installation which indicates that PDQDeploy was installed on the machines. PDQDeploy can be abused by attackers to remotely install packages or execute commands on target machines
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1title: New PDQDeploy Service - Server Side
2id: ee9ca27c-9bd7-4cee-9b01-6e906be7cae3
3status: test
4description: |
5 Detects a PDQDeploy service installation which indicates that PDQDeploy was installed on the machines.
6 PDQDeploy can be abused by attackers to remotely install packages or execute commands on target machines
7references:
8 - https://documentation.pdq.com/PDQDeploy/13.0.3.0/index.html?windows-services.htm
9author: Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
10date: 2022-07-22
11tags:
12 - attack.privilege-escalation
13 - attack.t1543.003
14logsource:
15 product: windows
16 service: system
17detection:
18 selection_root:
19 Provider_Name: 'Service Control Manager'
20 EventID: 7045
21 selection_service:
22 - ImagePath|contains: 'PDQDeployService.exe'
23 - ServiceName:
24 - 'PDQDeploy'
25 - 'PDQ Deploy'
26 condition: all of selection_*
27falsepositives:
28 - Legitimate use of the tool
29level: medium
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