COM Hijack via Sdclt

Severity: high
Author: Omkar Gudhate
Source: upstream

Detects changes to 'HKCU\Software\Classes\Folder\shell\open\command\DelegateExecute'

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Tactic	Techniques
Persistence	`T1546` Event Triggered Execution
Privilege Escalation	`T1546` Event Triggered Execution, `T1548` Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism
Defense Evasion	`T1548` Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism

Event coverage

Provider	Event ID	Title
Sysmon	13	RegistryEvent (Value Set)

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: `selection`

TargetObject|contains: '\Software\Classes\Folder\shell\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.