Creation Exe for Service with Unquoted Path

calendar Oct 23, 2025 · attack.privilege-escalation attack.persistence attack.t1547.009  ·
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Adversaries may execute their own malicious payloads by hijacking vulnerable file path references. Adversaries can take advantage of paths that lack surrounding quotations by placing an executable in a higher level directory within the path, so that Windows will choose the adversary's executable to launch.

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 1title: Creation Exe for Service with Unquoted Path
 2id: 8c3c76ca-8f8b-4b1d-aaf3-81aebcd367c9
 3status: test
 4description: |
 5    Adversaries may execute their own malicious payloads by hijacking vulnerable file path references.
 6    Adversaries can take advantage of paths that lack surrounding quotations by placing an executable in a higher level directory within the path, so that Windows will choose the adversary's executable to launch.    
 7references:
 8    - https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/f339e7da7d05f6057fdfcdd3742bfcf365fee2a9/atomics/T1574.009/T1574.009.md
 9author: frack113
10date: 2021-12-30
11tags:
12    - attack.privilege-escalation
13    - attack.persistence
14    - attack.t1547.009
15logsource:
16    product: windows
17    category: file_event
18detection:
19    selection:
20        # Feel free to add more
21        TargetFilename: 'C:\program.exe'
22    condition: selection
23falsepositives:
24    - Unknown
25level: high

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