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Potential Provisioning Registry Key Abuse For Binary Proxy Execution

Severity
high
Author
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems), Swachchhanda Shrawan Poudel
Source
upstream

Detects potential abuse of the provisioning registry key for indirect command execution through "Provlaunch.exe".

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Defense EvasionT1218 System Binary Proxy Execution

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon1Process creation
Security-Auditing4688A new process has been created.

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

CommandLine|contains: 'SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Provisioning\Commands\'

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
  • SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Provisioning\Commands\