UAC Bypass Using Consent and Comctl32 - File

Severity: high
Author: Christian Burkard (Nextron Systems)
Source: upstream

Detects the pattern of UAC Bypass using consent.exe and comctl32.dll (UACMe 22)

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Tactic	Techniques
Privilege Escalation	`T1548.002` Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism: Bypass User Account Control
Defense Evasion	`T1548.002` Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism: Bypass User Account Control

Event coverage

Provider	Event ID	Title
Sysmon	11	FileCreate

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: `selection`

TargetFilename|endswith: '\comctl32.dll'
TargetFilename|startswith: 'C:\Windows\System32\consent.exe.@'

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.