Suspicious PrintSpooler Service Executable File Creation

Detects attempts to exploit privilege escalation vulnerabilities related to the Print Spooler service. For more information refer to the following CVE’s - CVE-2020-1048, CVE-2020-1337 and CVE-2020-1300 and verify that the impacted system is patched.

Rule type: eql

Rule indices:

winlogbeat-*
logs-endpoint.events.*
logs-windows.*

Severity: high

Risk score: 73

Runs every: 5 minutes

Searches indices from: now-9m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

Tags:

Elastic
Host
Windows
Threat Detection
Privilege Escalation

Version: 4 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.10.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 7.13.0

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Rule query

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file where event.type != "deletion" and process.name : "spoolsv.exe"
and file.extension : ("exe", "dll") and not file.path :
("?:\\Windows\\System32\\spool\\*", "?:\\Windows\\Temp\\*",
"?:\\Users\\*")

Threat mapping

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Framework: MITRE ATT&CK^TM

Tactic:
- Name: Privilege Escalation
- ID: TA0004
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0004/
Technique:
- Name: Exploitation for Privilege Escalation
- ID: T1068
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1068/

Rule version history

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Version 4 (7.13.0 release)

Updated query, changed from:

event.category:file and not event.type:deletion and
process.name:spoolsv.exe and file.extension:(exe or dll) and not
file.path:(C\:\\Windows\\System32\\spool\\* or C\:\\Windows\\Temp\\*
or C\:\\Users\\*)

Version 3 (7.12.0 release)

Formatting only

Version 2 (7.11.2 release)

Formatting only

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