Potential Suspicious Activity Using SeCEdit

 1title: Potential Suspicious Activity Using SeCEdit
 2id: c2c76b77-32be-4d1f-82c9-7e544bdfe0eb
 3status: test
 4description: Detects potential suspicious behaviour using secedit.exe. Such as exporting or modifying the security policy
 5references:
 6    - https://blueteamops.medium.com/secedit-and-i-know-it-595056dee53d
 7    - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/secedit
 8author: Janantha Marasinghe
 9date: 2022-11-18
10modified: 2022-12-30
11tags:
12    - attack.collection
13    - attack.discovery
14    - attack.persistence
15    - attack.defense-evasion
16    - attack.credential-access
17    - attack.privilege-escalation
18    - attack.t1562.002
19    - attack.t1547.001
20    - attack.t1505.005
21    - attack.t1556.002
22    - attack.t1562
23    - attack.t1574.007
24    - attack.t1564.002
25    - attack.t1546.008
26    - attack.t1546.007
27    - attack.t1547.014
28    - attack.t1547.010
29    - attack.t1547.002
30    - attack.t1557
31    - attack.t1082
32logsource:
33    category: process_creation
34    product: windows
35detection:
36    selection_img:
37        - Image|endswith: '\secedit.exe'
38        - OriginalFileName: 'SeCEdit'
39    selection_flags_discovery:
40        CommandLine|contains|all:
41            - '/export'
42            - '/cfg'
43    selection_flags_configure:
44        CommandLine|contains|all:
45            - '/configure'
46            - '/db'
47    # filter:
48    #     SubjectUserName|endswith: '$'  SubjectUserName is from event ID 4719 in the Windows Security log
49    condition: selection_img and (1 of selection_flags_*)
50falsepositives:
51    - Legitimate administrative use
52level: medium