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Lateral Movement via Startup Folderedit
Identifies suspicious file creations in the startup folder of a remote system. An adversary could abuse this to move laterally by dropping a malicious script or executable that will be executed after a reboot or user logon.
Rule type: eql
Rule indices:
- logs-endpoint.events.*
- winlogbeat-*
- logs-windows.*
Severity: high
Risk score: 73
Runs every: 5 minutes
Searches indices from: now-9m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time
)
Maximum alerts per execution: 100
References:
Tags:
- Elastic
- Host
- Windows
- Threat Detection
- Lateral Movement
Version: 100 (version history)
Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.11.0
Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 8.5.0
Rule authors: Elastic
Rule license: Elastic License v2
Investigation guideedit
Rule queryedit
file where event.type in ("creation", "change") and /* via RDP TSClient mounted share or SMB */ (process.name : "mstsc.exe" or process.pid == 4) and file.path : ("?:\\Users\\*\\AppData\\Roaming\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Start Menu\\Programs\\Startup\\*", "?:\\ProgramData\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Start Menu\\Programs\\Startup\\*")
Threat mappingedit
Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM
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Tactic:
- Name: Lateral Movement
- ID: TA0008
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0008/
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Technique:
- Name: Remote Services
- ID: T1021
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1021/
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Tactic:
- Name: Persistence
- ID: TA0003
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0003/
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Technique:
- Name: Boot or Logon Autostart Execution
- ID: T1547
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1547/
Rule version historyedit
- Version 100 (8.5.0 release)
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- Formatting only
- Version 6 (8.4.0 release)
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Updated query, changed from:
file where event.type in ("creation", "change") and /* via RDP TSClient mounted share or SMB */ (process.name : "mstsc.exe" or process.pid == 4) and file.path : "C:\\*\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Start Menu\\Programs\\Startup\\*"
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- Version 4 (8.2.0 release)
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- Formatting only
- Version 3 (7.12.0 release)
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- Formatting only
- Version 2 (7.11.2 release)
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- Formatting only