Detection rules › Sigma
Group Policy Abuse for Privilege Addition
Detects the first occurrence of a modification to Group Policy Object Attributes to add privileges to user accounts or use them to add users as local admins.
MITRE ATT&CK coverage
| Tactic | Techniques |
|---|---|
| Privilege Escalation | T1484.001 Domain or Tenant Policy Modification: Group Policy Modification |
| Defense Evasion | T1484.001 Domain or Tenant Policy Modification: Group Policy Modification |
Event coverage
| Provider | Event ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Security-Auditing | 5136 | A directory service object was modified. |
Stages and Predicates
Stage 1: selection
or:
AttributeValue|contains: '803E14A0-B4FB-11D0-A0D0-00A0C90F574B'
AttributeValue|contains: '827D319E-6EAC-11D2-A4EA-00C04F79F83A'
AttributeLDAPDisplayName: gPCMachineExtensionNames
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.
| Field | Kind | Values |
|---|---|---|
AttributeLDAPDisplayName | eq |
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AttributeValue | match |
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