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UAC Bypass Using NTFS Reparse Point - File

Severity
high
Author
Christian Burkard (Nextron Systems)
Source
upstream

Detects the pattern of UAC Bypass using NTFS reparse point and wusa.exe DLL hijacking (UACMe 36)

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Privilege EscalationT1548.002 Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism: Bypass User Account Control
Defense EvasionT1548.002 Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism: Bypass User Account Control

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon11FileCreate

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

TargetFilename|endswith: '\AppData\Local\Temp\api-ms-win-core-kernel32-legacy-l1.DLL'
TargetFilename|startswith: 'C:\Users\'

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.

FieldKindValues
TargetFilenameends_with
  • \AppData\Local\Temp\api-ms-win-core-kernel32-legacy-l1.DLL
TargetFilenamestarts_with
  • C:\Users\ corpus 12 (sigma 12)