Bypass UAC Using DelegateExecute

Severity: high
Author: frack113
Source: upstream

Bypasses User Account Control using a fileless method

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Tactic	Techniques
Privilege Escalation	`T1548.002` Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism: Bypass User Account Control
Defense Evasion	`T1548.002` Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism: Bypass User Account Control

Event coverage

Provider	Event ID	Title
Sysmon	13	RegistryEvent (Value Set)

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: `selection`

Details: '(Empty)'
TargetObject|endswith: '\open\command\DelegateExecute'

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.