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Winlogon AllowMultipleTSSessions Enable

Severity
medium
Author
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
Source
upstream

Detects when the 'AllowMultipleTSSessions' value is enabled. Which allows for multiple Remote Desktop connection sessions to be opened at once. This is often used by attacker as a way to connect to an RDP session without disconnecting the other users

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
PersistenceT1112 Modify Registry
Defense EvasionT1112 Modify Registry

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon13RegistryEvent (Value Set)

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

Details|endswith: 'DWORD (0x00000001)'
TargetObject|endswith: '\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\AllowMultipleTSSessions'

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
Detailsends_with
  • DWORD (0x00000001)
TargetObjectends_with
  • \Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\AllowMultipleTSSessions