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Potential Persistence Via DLLPathOverride

Severity
high
Author
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
Source
upstream

Detects when an attacker adds a new "DLLPathOverride" value to the "Natural Language" key in order to achieve persistence which will get invoked by "SearchIndexer.exe" process

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon13RegistryEvent (Value Set)

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: all of selection_root

TargetObject|contains: '\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ContentIndex\Language\'

Stage 2: all of selection_values

or:
TargetObject|contains: '\StemmerClass'
TargetObject|contains: '\StemmerDLLPathOverride'
TargetObject|contains: '\WBDLLPathOverride'
TargetObject|contains: '\WBreakerClass'

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
TargetObjectmatch
  • \SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ContentIndex\Language\
  • \StemmerClass
  • \StemmerDLLPathOverride
  • \WBDLLPathOverride
  • \WBreakerClass