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Component Object Model Hijacking

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Component Object Model Hijacking

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Identifies Component Object Model (COM) hijacking via registry modification. Adversaries may establish persistence by executing malicious content triggered by hijacked references to COM objects.

Rule type: eql

Rule indices:

logs-endpoint.events.*

Severity: medium

Risk score: 47

Runs every: 5m

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

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

https://bohops.com/2018/08/18/abusing-the-com-registry-structure-part-2-loading-techniques-for-evasion-and-persistence/

Tags:

Elastic
Host
Windows
Threat Detection
Persistence

Version: 6

Rule authors:

Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Rule query

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registry where
 /* uncomment once length is stable length(bytes_written_string) > 0 and */
 (registry.path : "HK*}\\InprocServer32\\" and registry.data.strings: ("scrobj.dll", "C:\\*\\scrobj.dll") and
 not registry.path : "*\\{06290BD*-48AA-11D2-8432-006008C3FBFC}\\*")
 or
 /* in general COM Registry changes on Users Hive is less noisy and worth alerting */
 (registry.path : ("HKEY_USERS\\*Classes\\*\\InprocServer32\\",
                   "HKEY_USERS\\*Classes\\*\\LocalServer32\\",
                   "HKEY_USERS\\*Classes\\*\\DelegateExecute\\",
                   "HKEY_USERS\\*Classes\\*\\TreatAs\\",
                   "HKEY_USERS\\*Classes\\CLSID\\*\\ScriptletURL\\") and
 not (process.executable : "?:\\Program Files*\\Veeam\\Backup and Replication\\Console\\veeam.backup.shell.exe" and
      registry.path : "HKEY_USERS\\S-1-5-21-*_Classes\\CLSID\\*\\LocalServer32\\") and
 /* not necessary but good for filtering privileged installations */
 user.domain != "NT AUTHORITY")

Framework: MITRE ATT&CK^TM

Tactic:
- Name: Persistence
- ID: TA0003
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0003/
Technique:
- Name: Event Triggered Execution
- ID: T1546
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1546/
Sub-technique:
- Name: Component Object Model Hijacking
- ID: T1546.015
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1546/015/

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