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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