Suspicious ImagePath Service Creation

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Identifies the creation of a suspicious ImagePath value. This could be an indication of an adversary attempting to stealthily persist or escalate privileges through abnormal service creation.

Rule type: eql

Rule indices:

  • logs-endpoint.events.*

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

Tags:

  • Elastic
  • Host
  • Windows
  • Threat Detection
  • Persistence

Version: 100 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.11.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 8.5.0

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Rule query

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registry where registry.path :
"HKLM\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet*\\Services\\*\\ImagePath" and /* add
suspicious registry ImagePath values here */ registry.data.strings :
("%COMSPEC%*", "*\\.\\pipe\\*")

Threat mapping

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Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

Rule version history

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Version 100 (8.5.0 release)
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Version 5 (8.4.0 release)
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Version 4 (8.1.0 release)
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Version 3 (7.12.0 release)
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