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Potential DLL Sideloading Via DeviceEnroller.EXE

Severity
medium
Author
@gott_cyber
Source
upstream

Detects the use of the PhoneDeepLink parameter to potentially sideload a DLL file that does not exist. This non-existent DLL file is named "ShellChromeAPI.dll". Adversaries can drop their own renamed DLL and execute it via DeviceEnroller.exe using this parameter

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
PersistenceT1574.001 Hijack Execution Flow: DLL
Privilege EscalationT1574.001 Hijack Execution Flow: DLL
Defense EvasionT1574.001 Hijack Execution Flow: DLL

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon1Process creation

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: all of selection_img

or:
Image|endswith: '\deviceenroller.exe'
OriginalFileName: deviceenroller.exe

Stage 2: all of selection_cli

CommandLine|contains: '/PhoneDeepLink'

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
CommandLinematch
  • /PhoneDeepLink
Imageends_with
  • \deviceenroller.exe
OriginalFileNameeq
  • deviceenroller.exe