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Potential Persistence Via Scrobj.dll COM Hijacking

Severity
medium
Author
frack113
Source
upstream

Detect use of scrobj.dll as this DLL looks for the ScriptletURL key to get the location of the script to execute

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
PersistenceT1546.015 Event Triggered Execution: Component Object Model Hijacking
Privilege EscalationT1546.015 Event Triggered Execution: Component Object Model Hijacking

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon13RegistryEvent (Value Set)

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

Details: 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\scrobj.dll'
TargetObject|endswith: 'InprocServer32\(Default)'

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
Detailseq
  • C:\WINDOWS\system32\scrobj.dll
TargetObjectends_with
  • InprocServer32\(Default)