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.persistence
13 - attack.privilege-escalation
14 - attack.t1543.003
15logsource:
16 product: windows
17 service: system
18detection:
19 selection_root:
20 Provider_Name: 'Service Control Manager'
21 EventID: 7045
22 selection_service:
23 - ImagePath|contains: 'PDQDeployRunner-'
24 - ServiceName|startswith: 'PDQDeployRunner-'
25 condition: all of selection_*
26falsepositives:
27 - Legitimate use of the tool
28level: medium
References
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