Interesting Service Enumeration Via Sc.EXE

calendar Jun 4, 2025 · attack.t1003 attack.credential-access  ·
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Detects the enumeration and query of interesting and in some cases sensitive services on the system via "sc.exe". Attackers often try to enumerate the services currently running on a system in order to find different attack vectors.

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 1title: Interesting Service Enumeration Via Sc.EXE
 2id: e83e8899-c9b2-483b-b355-5decc942b959
 3status: test
 4description: |
 5    Detects the enumeration and query of interesting and in some cases sensitive services on the system via "sc.exe".
 6    Attackers often try to enumerate the services currently running on a system in order to find different attack vectors.    
 7references:
 8    - https://www.n00py.io/2021/05/dumping-plaintext-rdp-credentials-from-svchost-exe/
 9    - https://pentestlab.blog/tag/svchost/
10author: Swachchhanda Shrawan Poudel
11date: 2024-02-12
12tags:
13    - attack.t1003
14    - attack.credential-access
15logsource:
16    product: windows
17    category: process_creation
18detection:
19    selection_img:
20        - Image|endswith: '\sc.exe'
21        - OriginalFileName: 'sc.exe'
22    selection_cli:
23        CommandLine|contains: 'query'
24    selection_cmd:
25        # Note: add more interesting services
26        CommandLine|contains: 'termservice'
27    condition: all of selection_*
28falsepositives:
29    - Unknown
30# Note: can be upgraded to medium after an initial baseline
31level: low

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