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Privilege Escalation via Rogue Named Pipe Impersonation
Identifies a privilege escalation attempt via rogue named pipe impersonation. An adversary may abuse this technique by masquerading as a known named pipe and manipulating a privileged process to connect to it.
MITRE ATT&CK coverage
| Tactic | Techniques |
|---|---|
| Privilege Escalation | T1134 Access Token Manipulation, T1134.001 Access Token Manipulation: Token Impersonation/Theft |
| Defense Evasion | T1134 Access Token Manipulation, T1134.001 Access Token Manipulation: Token Impersonation/Theft |
Event coverage
| Provider | Event ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sysmon | 17 | PipeEvent (Pipe Created) |
Stages and Predicates
Stage 1: eql:file
event.provider:"Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon" and file.name:"\\*\\Pipe\\*"Indicators
Each row is a field, operator, and value that the rule matches. The corpus column counts how many other rules in the catalog look for the same combination: high numbers point to widely-used, community-vetted indicators. Blank or 1 shows that the indicator is specific to this rule.
| Field | Kind | Values |
|---|---|---|
event.provider | eq |
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file.name | wildcard |
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