New PDQDeploy Service - Client Side
Detects PDQDeploy service installation on the target system. When a package is deployed via PDQDeploy it installs a remote service on the target machine with the name "PDQDeployRunner-X" where "X" is an integer starting from 1
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1title: New PDQDeploy Service - Client Side
2id: b98a10af-1e1e-44a7-bab2-4cc026917648
3status: test
4description: |
5 Detects PDQDeploy service installation on the target system.
6 When a package is deployed via PDQDeploy it installs a remote service on the target machine with the name "PDQDeployRunner-X" where "X" is an integer starting from 1
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: 'PDQDeployRunner-'
23 - ServiceName|startswith: 'PDQDeployRunner-'
24 condition: all of selection_*
25falsepositives:
26 - Legitimate use of the tool
27level: medium
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