Root Certificate Installed - PowerShell
Adversaries may install a root certificate on a compromised system to avoid warnings when connecting to adversary controlled web servers.
Detection logic
Detection requirements
Known benign triggers
- Help Desk or IT may need to manually add a corporate Root CA on occasion. Need to test if GPO push doesn't trigger FP
MITRE ATT&CK mappings
0 exclusive techniques.This is coverage no other published rule has; it is not this rule's total technique count.
References
| Reference | Cited by |
|---|---|
| github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/f339e7da7d05f6057fdfcdd3742bfcf365fee2a9/atomics/T1553.004/T1553.004.md | 5from 2 sources |
From the source
- At source
- Open at source
- Upstream identifier
- 42821614-9264-4761-acfc-5772c3286f76
- Tagged by the source as
- attack.defense-impairment
Licence
- Published under
- Detection Rule License 1.1Read the licence
- Attribution
- Required
Authorship
- Published
- Aug 26, 2026
- Version
- 1