Service Registry Permissions Weakness Check
Adversaries may execute their own malicious payloads by hijacking the Registry entries used by services. Adversaries may use flaws in the permissions for registry to redirect from the originally specified executable to one that they control, in order to launch their own code at Service start. Windows stores local service configuration information in the Registry under HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services
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1title: Service Registry Permissions Weakness Check
2id: 95afc12e-3cbb-40c3-9340-84a032e596a3
3status: test
4description: |
5 Adversaries may execute their own malicious payloads by hijacking the Registry entries used by services.
6 Adversaries may use flaws in the permissions for registry to redirect from the originally specified executable to one that they control, in order to launch their own code at Service start.
7 Windows stores local service configuration information in the Registry under HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services
8references:
9 - https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/f339e7da7d05f6057fdfcdd3742bfcf365fee2a9/atomics/T1574.011/T1574.011.md#atomic-test-1---service-registry-permissions-weakness
10 - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.security/get-acl?view=powershell-7.4
11author: frack113
12date: 2021-12-30
13tags:
14 - attack.persistence
15 - attack.t1574.011
16 - stp.2a
17logsource:
18 product: windows
19 category: ps_script
20 definition: 'Requirements: Script Block Logging must be enabled'
21detection:
22 selection:
23 ScriptBlockText|contains|all:
24 - 'get-acl'
25 - 'REGISTRY::HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\'
26 condition: selection
27falsepositives:
28 - Legitimate administrative script
29level: medium
References
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Small and highly portable detection tests based on MITRE's ATT&CK. - redcanaryco/atomic-red-team
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This cmdlet is only available on the Windows platform. The Get-Acl cmdlet gets objects that represent the security descriptor of a file or resource. The security descriptor contains the access control lists (ACLs) of the resource. The ACL specifies the permissions that users and user groups have to access the resource. Beginning in Windows PowerShell 3.0, you can use the InputObject parameter of Get-Acl to get the security descriptor of objects that do not have a path.
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