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Potential UAC Bypass Via Sdclt.EXE

Severity
medium
Author
Roberto Rodriguez (Cyb3rWard0g), OTR (Open Threat Research)
Source
upstream

A General detection for sdclt being spawned as an elevated process. This could be an indicator of sdclt being used for bypass UAC techniques.

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Privilege EscalationT1548.002 Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism: Bypass User Account Control
Defense EvasionT1548.002 Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism: Bypass User Account Control

Event coverage

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

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

IntegrityLevel: [High, S-1-16-12288]
Image|endswith: sdclt.exe

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
Imageends_with
  • sdclt.exe
IntegrityLeveleq
  • High corpus 16 (sigma 16)
  • S-1-16-12288 corpus 16 (sigma 16)