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SCM Database Privileged Operation

Severity
medium
Author
Roberto Rodriguez @Cyb3rWard0g, Tim Shelton
Source
upstream

Detects non-system users performing privileged operation os the SCM database

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Privilege EscalationT1548 Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism
Defense EvasionT1548 Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Security-Auditing4674An operation was attempted on a privileged object.

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

ObjectName: servicesactive
ObjectType: 'SC_MANAGER OBJECT'
PrivilegeList: SeTakeOwnershipPrivilege

Stage 2: not filter

ProcessName|endswith: ':\Windows\System32\services.exe'
SubjectLogonId: 0x3e4

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
ObjectNameeq
  • servicesactive
ObjectTypeeq
  • SC_MANAGER OBJECT corpus 2 (sigma 2)
PrivilegeListeq
  • SeTakeOwnershipPrivilege
ProcessNameends_with
  • :\Windows\System32\services.exe
SubjectLogonIdeq
  • 0x3e4 corpus 2 (sigma 2)