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Software Deployment Tools T1072

Adversaries may gain access to and use centralized software suites installed within an enterprise to execute commands and move laterally through the network. Configuration management and software deployment applications may be used in an enterprise network or cloud environment for routine administration purposes. These systems may also be integrated into CI/CD pipelines. Examples of such solutions include: SCCM, HBSS, Altiris, AWS Systems Manager, Microsoft Intune, Azure Arc, and GCP Deployment Manager.

Events covered

9 catalog events are tagged with this technique by at least one rule.

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon1Process creation
Sysmon5Process terminated
Security-Auditing4688A new process has been created.
Security-Auditing4689A process has exited.
SoftwareRestrictionPolicies865Access to AttemptedPath has been restricted by your Administrator by the default software restriction policy level.
SoftwareRestrictionPolicies866Access to AttemptedPath has been restricted by your Administrator by location with policy rule SrpRuleGuid placed on path RulePath.
SoftwareRestrictionPolicies867Access to AttemptedPath has been restricted by your Administrator by software publisher policy.
SoftwareRestrictionPolicies868Access to AttemptedPath has been restricted by your Administrator by policy rule SrpRuleGuid.
SoftwareRestrictionPolicies882Access to AttemptedPath has been restricted by your Administrator by policy rule SrpRuleGuid.

Authoring guide

Patterns shared across the 6 rules above: which fields they filter on, what specific values they look for, and what they exclude. Field names are normalized across vendors so Sigma's Image, Elastic's process.name, and Splunk's process_name collapse into one row. Each rule contributes at most once per row.

Fields filtered most (8 distinct)

The fields most rules look at when detecting this technique. The How column shows the operators authors use (eq, wildcard, regex_match, match) and how often each appears. Sample values are concrete examples to start from, not an exhaustive list.

FieldRulesHowSample values
OriginalFileName3eq 3PDQDeployConsole.exe, Radmin.exe, csi.exe, rcsi.exe
Image2match 1, ends_with 1Policies\\{31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9}, Policies\\{6AC1786C-016F-11D2-945F-00C04fB984F9}, \csi.exe, \rcsi.exe
Description2eq 2PDQ Deploy Console, Radmin Viewer
Company2eq 2PDQ.com, Microsoft Corporation
Product2eq 2PDQ Deploy, Radmin Viewer
EventID1eq 14688
Process1match 1Policies\\{31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9}, Policies\\{6AC1786C-016F-11D2-945F-00C04fB984F9}
Provider_Name1eq 1Microsoft-Windows-SoftwareRestrictionPolicies

Top indicator values (18 distinct)

Specific (field, operator, value) combinations the rules check for, ranked by how many rules under this technique use each one. The Corpus reach column counts how many rules across the entire catalog (any technique) check the same combination. High numbers point to widely-used indicators that are likely noisy on their own; combine them with another condition for useful signal. Blank means the combination is specific to rules under this technique.

FieldKindValueRules (here)Corpus reach
EventIDeq46881
ImagematchPolicies\\{31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9}1
ImagematchPolicies\\{6AC1786C-016F-11D2-945F-00C04fB984F9}1
ProcessmatchPolicies\\{31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9}1
ProcessmatchPolicies\\{6AC1786C-016F-11D2-945F-00C04fB984F9}1
DescriptioneqPDQ Deploy Console1
ProducteqPDQ Deploy1
CompanyeqPDQ.com1
OriginalFileNameeqPDQDeployConsole.exe1
DescriptioneqRadmin Viewer1
OriginalFileNameeqRadmin.exe1
ProducteqRadmin Viewer1
Provider_NameeqMicrosoft-Windows-SoftwareRestrictionPolicies1
Imageends_with\rcsi.exe1
CompanyeqMicrosoft Corporation1
OriginalFileNameeqrcsi.exe1
OriginalFileNameeqcsi.exe12
Imageends_with\csi.exe12

Common exclusions (1 distinct)

Field/operator/value combinations that rules under this technique routinely exclude (top-level not() clauses). These are the false-positive paths the community has learned to filter out. A new rule that ignores the high-count entries here will likely fire on the same noisy paths.

FieldKindValueRules excluding
Processeqknown_processes2

Rules under this technique

Every rule in the catalog tagged with this technique, grouped by vendor. Click a rule title for its full predicates, exclusions, and indicators.

Sigma 4 rules

Kusto Query Language 2 rules