Detection rules › Sigma

Potential Persistence Via TypedPaths

Severity
high
Author
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
Source
upstream

Detects modification addition to the 'TypedPaths' key in the user or admin registry from a non standard application. Which might indicate persistence attempt

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon13RegistryEvent (Value Set)

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

TargetObject|contains: '\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TypedPaths\'

Stage 2: not filter

Image: ['C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe', 'C:\Windows\explorer.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
Imageeq
  • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe corpus 2 (sigma 2)
  • C:\Windows\explorer.exe corpus 9 (sigma 9)
TargetObjectmatch
  • \Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TypedPaths\