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Suspicious Powercfg Execution To Change Lock Screen Timeout

Severity
medium
Author
frack113
Source
upstream

Detects suspicious execution of 'Powercfg.exe' to change lock screen timeout

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon1Process creation

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: all of selection_power

or:
Image|endswith: '\powercfg.exe'
OriginalFileName: PowerCfg.exe

Stage 2: all of selection_standby

or:
CommandLine|contains: '-change '
CommandLine|contains: -standby-timeout-
CommandLine|contains: '/setacvalueindex '
CommandLine|contains: SCHEME_CURRENT
CommandLine|contains: SUB_VIDEO
CommandLine|contains: VIDEOCONLOCK

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
  • -change
  • -standby-timeout-
  • /setacvalueindex
  • SCHEME_CURRENT
  • SUB_VIDEO
  • VIDEOCONLOCK
Imageends_with
  • \powercfg.exe
OriginalFileNameeq
  • PowerCfg.exe