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PowerShell Scripts Installed as Services

Severity
high
Author
oscd.community, Natalia Shornikova
Source
upstream

Detects powershell script installed as a Service

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
ExecutionT1569.002 System Services: Service Execution

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Service-Control-Manager7045

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

or:
ImagePath|contains: powershell
ImagePath|contains: pwsh
Provider_Name: 'Service Control Manager'

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
ImagePathmatch
  • powershell corpus 5 (sigma 5)
  • pwsh corpus 2 (sigma 2)
Provider_Nameeq
  • Service Control Manager corpus 43 (sigma 43)

Neighbors

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