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ProcessHacker Privilege Elevation

Severity
high
Author
Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
Source
upstream

Detects a ProcessHacker tool that elevated privileges to a very high level

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
ExecutionT1569.002 System Services: Service Execution
PersistenceT1543.003 Create or Modify System Process: Windows Service
Privilege EscalationT1543.003 Create or Modify System Process: Windows Service

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Service-Control-Manager7045

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

AccountName: LocalSystem
Provider_Name: 'Service Control Manager'
ServiceName|startswith: ProcessHacker

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
AccountNameeq
  • LocalSystem
Provider_Nameeq
  • Service Control Manager corpus 43 (sigma 43)
ServiceNamestarts_with
  • ProcessHacker

Neighbors

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