Suspicious Execution Of Renamed Sysinternals Tools - Registry
Detects the creation of the "accepteula" key related to the Sysinternals tools being created from executables with the wrong name (e.g. a renamed Sysinternals tool)
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1title: Suspicious Execution Of Renamed Sysinternals Tools - Registry
2id: f50f3c09-557d-492d-81db-9064a8d4e211
3related:
4 - id: 25ffa65d-76d8-4da5-a832-3f2b0136e133
5 type: derived
6 - id: 8023f872-3f1d-4301-a384-801889917ab4
7 type: similar
8status: test
9description: Detects the creation of the "accepteula" key related to the Sysinternals tools being created from executables with the wrong name (e.g. a renamed Sysinternals tool)
10references:
11 - Internal Research
12author: Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
13date: 2022-08-24
14modified: 2023-02-07
15tags:
16 - attack.resource-development
17 - attack.t1588.002
18logsource:
19 product: windows
20 category: registry_add
21detection:
22 selection:
23 EventType: CreateKey
24 TargetObject|contains:
25 # Please add new values while respecting the alphabetical order
26 - '\Active Directory Explorer'
27 - '\Handle'
28 - '\LiveKd'
29 - '\ProcDump'
30 - '\Process Explorer'
31 - '\PsExec'
32 - '\PsLoggedon'
33 - '\PsLoglist'
34 - '\PsPasswd'
35 - '\PsPing'
36 - '\PsService'
37 - '\SDelete'
38 TargetObject|endswith: '\EulaAccepted'
39 filter:
40 Image|endswith:
41 # Please add new values while respecting the alphabetical order
42 - '\ADExplorer.exe'
43 - '\ADExplorer64.exe'
44 - '\handle.exe'
45 - '\handle64.exe'
46 - '\livekd.exe'
47 - '\livekd64.exe'
48 - '\procdump.exe'
49 - '\procdump64.exe'
50 - '\procexp.exe'
51 - '\procexp64.exe'
52 - '\PsExec.exe'
53 - '\PsExec64.exe'
54 - '\PsLoggedon.exe'
55 - '\PsLoggedon64.exe'
56 - '\psloglist.exe'
57 - '\psloglist64.exe'
58 - '\pspasswd.exe'
59 - '\pspasswd64.exe'
60 - '\PsPing.exe'
61 - '\PsPing64.exe'
62 - '\PsService.exe'
63 - '\PsService64.exe'
64 - '\sdelete.exe'
65 condition: selection and not filter
66falsepositives:
67 - Unlikely
68level: high
References
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