Service Command Lateral Movement
Elastic Stack Serverless Security
Identifies use of sc.exe to create, modify, or start services on remote hosts. This could be indicative of adversary lateral movement but will be noisy if commonly done by admins.
Rule type: eql
Rule indices:
- logs-endpoint.events.*
- winlogbeat-*
- logs-windows.*
Severity: low
Risk score: 21
Runs every: 5m
Searches indices from: now-9m (https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/common-options.html#date-math[Date Math format], see also Additional look-back time)
Maximum alerts per execution: 100
References: None
Tags:
- Elastic
- Host
- Windows
- Threat Detection
- Lateral Movement
Version: 102
Rule authors:
- Elastic
Rule license: Elastic License v2
sequence by process.entity_id with maxspan = 1m
[process where event.type == "start" and
(process.name : "sc.exe" or process.pe.original_file_name : "sc.exe") and
process.args : "\\\\*" and process.args : ("binPath=*", "binpath=*") and
process.args : ("create", "config", "failure", "start")]
[network where process.name : "sc.exe" and destination.ip != "127.0.0.1"]
Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM
Tactic:
- Name: Lateral Movement
- ID: TA0008
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0008/
Technique:
- Name: Remote Services
- ID: T1021
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1021/
Tactic:
- Name: Persistence
- ID: TA0003
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0003/
Technique:
- Name: Create or Modify System Process
- ID: T1543
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1543/
Sub-technique:
- Name: Windows Service
- ID: T1543.003
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1543/003/
Tactic:
- Name: Execution
- ID: TA0002
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0002/
Technique:
- Name: System Services
- ID: T1569
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1569/
Sub-technique:
- Name: Service Execution
- ID: T1569.002
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1569/002/