Start Windows Service Via Net.EXE

Severity: low
Author: Timur Zinniatullin, Daniil Yugoslavskiy, oscd.community
Source: upstream

Detects the usage of the "net.exe" command to start a service using the "start" flag

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

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

Event coverage

Provider	Event ID	Title
Sysmon	1	Process creation

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: `all of selection_img`

or:
Image|endswith: '\net.exe'
Image|endswith: '\net1.exe'
OriginalFileName: net.exe
OriginalFileName: net1.exe

Stage 2: `all of selection_cli`

CommandLine|contains: ' start '

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
`CommandLine`	match	`start` corpus 2 (sigma 2)
`Image`	ends_with	`\net.exe` corpus 27 (sigma 27) `\net1.exe` corpus 25 (sigma 25)
`OriginalFileName`	eq	`net.exe` corpus 16 (sigma 16) `net1.exe` corpus 16 (sigma 16)