Creation Exe for Service with Unquoted Path

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.persistence
13    - attack.t1547.009
14logsource:
15    product: windows
16    category: file_event
17detection:
18    selection:
19        # Feel free to add more
20        TargetFilename: 'C:\program.exe'
21    condition: selection
22falsepositives:
23    - Unknown
24level: high

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