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Potential Remote Desktop Shadowing Activity

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Potential Remote Desktop Shadowing Activity

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Identifies the modification of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) Shadow registry or the execution of processes indicative of an active RDP shadowing session. An adversary may abuse the RDP Shadowing feature to spy on or control other users active RDP sessions.

Rule type: eql

Rule indices:

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

Severity: high

Risk score: 73

Runs every: 5m

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
Lateral Movement

Version: 4

Rule authors:

Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Investigation guide

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Rule query

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/* Identifies the modification of RDP Shadow registry or
  the execution of processes indicative of active shadow RDP session */

any where
  (event.category == "registry" and
     registry.path : "HKLM\\Software\\Policies\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\Terminal Services\\Shadow"
  ) or
  (event.category == "process" and
     (process.name : ("RdpSaUacHelper.exe", "RdpSaProxy.exe") and process.parent.name : "svchost.exe") or
     (process.pe.original_file_name : "mstsc.exe" and process.args : "/shadow:*")
  )

Framework: MITRE ATT&CK^TM

Tactic:
- Name: Lateral Movement
- ID: TA0008
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0008/
Technique:
- Name: Remote Services
- ID: T1021
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1021/

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