PUA - PAExec Default Named Pipe

Severity: medium
Author: Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
Source: upstream

Detects PAExec default named pipe

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Tactic	Techniques
Execution	`T1569.002` System Services: Service Execution

Event coverage

Provider	Event ID	Title
Sysmon	17	PipeEvent (Pipe Created)
Sysmon	18	PipeEvent (Pipe Connected)

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: `selection`

PipeName|startswith: '\PAExec'

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.