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T1574.010 Services File Permissions Weakness
stealth · execution — Windows · attack.mitre.org · JSON
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Sigma rules tagged attack.t1574.010
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KEV CVEs mapped here
<p>Adversaries may execute their own malicious payloads by hijacking the binaries used by services. Adversaries may use flaws in the permissions of Windows services to replace the binary that is executed upon service start. These service processes may automatically execute specific binaries as part of their functionality or to perform other actions. If the permissions on the file system directory containing a target binary, or permissions on the binary itself are improperly set, then the target binary may be overwritten with another binary using user-level permissions and executed by the original process. If the original process and thread are running under a higher permissions level, then the replaced binary will also execute under higher-level permissions, which could include SYSTEM.</p><p>Adversaries may use this technique to replace legitimate binaries with malicious ones as a means of executing code at a higher permissions level. If the executing process is set to run at a specific time or during a certain event (e.g., system bootup) then this technique can also be used for persistence.</p>
KEV CVEs mapped to this technique · CTID Mappings Explorer
None. No KEV entry in the public mapping names this technique. Given that 74.7% of KEV has no mapping at all, this says more about the mapping than about the technique.
Detection strategy · ATT&CK Enterprise v19.2
- DET0436 Detection Strategy for Hijack Execution Flow through Services File Permissions Weakness. v1.0
AN1211 WindowsModification or replacement of service executables due to weak file or directory permissions. Defender observes file writes to service binary paths, unexpected modifications of executables associated with registered services, and subsequent service execution of attacker-supplied binaries under elevated permissions.Tunable:
MonitoredServicesHashBaselineTimeWindowPrivilegedAccounts
Sigma rules · SigmaHQ da9bb07d64, tag attack.t1574.010
No Sigma rule carries this tag. MITRE publishes a detection strategy above, so the behaviour is specified; what is missing is public detection content.
Rules tagged at the parent level (attack.t1574) 8
These target the parent technique, not this sub-technique specifically. Listed for completeness, not counted as coverage.
Author: FPT.EagleEye, Thomas Patzke (improvements)
· 2021-06-29 (modified 2022-06-02) · logsource: product=windows category=image_load · 02fb90de-c321-4e63-a6b9-25f4b03dfd14
Detect DLL Load from Spooler Service backup folder. This behavior has been observed during the exploitation of the Print Spooler Vulnerability CVE-2021-1675 and CVE-2021-34527 (PrinterNightmare).
Author: Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), oscd.community, Jonhnathan Ribeiro
· 2019-11-15 (modified 2021-11-27) · logsource: product=windows category=process_creation · 1c373b6d-76ce-4553-997d-8c1da9a6b5f5
Detects exploitation attempt of privilege escalation vulnerability via SetupComplete.cmd and PartnerSetupComplete.cmd described in CVE-2019-1378
Author: Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
· 2019-07-17 (modified 2023-05-24) · logsource: product=windows category=process_creation · 50919691-7302-437f-8e10-1fe088afa145
Detects a "regsvr32" execution where the DLL doesn't contain a common file extension.
Author: Bhabesh Raj
· 2021-07-01 (modified 2023-02-17) · logsource: product=windows category=file_delete · 5b2bbc47-dead-4ef7-8908-0cf73fcbecbf
Detect DLL deletions from Spooler Service driver folder. This might be a potential exploitation attempt of CVE-2021-1675
Author: frack113
· 2022-08-07 (modified 2023-08-17) · logsource: product=windows category=registry_set · 9827ae57-3802-418f-994b-d5ecf5cd974b
Detects the addition of the "Debugger" value to the "DbgManagedDebugger" key in order to achieve persistence. Which will get invoked when an application crashes
Author: Ivan Dyachkov, Yulia Fomina, oscd.community
· 2020-10-07 (modified 2021-11-27) · logsource: product=windows category=process_creation · a2910908-e86f-4687-aeba-76a5f996e652
Detects using register-cimprovider.exe to execute arbitrary dll file.
Author: Tim Rauch (rule), Elastic (idea)
· 2022-10-21 · logsource: product=windows category=file_event · dbbd9f66-2ed3-4ca2-98a4-6ea985dd1a1c
Detects attempts to create a DLL file to a known desktop application dependencies folder such as Slack, Teams or OneDrive and by an unusual process. This may indicate an attempt to load a malicious module via DLL search order hijacking.
Author: Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
· 2020-07-01 (modified 2023-08-17) · logsource: product=windows category=registry_set · e0813366-0407-449a-9869-a2db1119dc41
Detects a suspicious printer driver installation with an empty Manufacturer value