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HighSigmaHQ Andreas Hunkeler (@Karneades)

Service DACL Abuse To Hide Services Via Sc.EXE

Detects usage of the "sc.exe" utility adding a new service with special permission seen used by threat actors which makes the service hidden and unremovable.

Detection logic

Detection requirements

Platform: Windows
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the ATT&CK technique it maps to.
Log source product: windows
Log source category: process_creation

Known benign triggers

Unknown

References

Links the source published beside this detection. Reference is the link the source wrote, unmodified. Class is decided by this catalogue from the host and path, not stated by the source. Cited by counts published detections citing the same resource, including this one, and the sources beneath it count the repositories this catalogue ingests, which is not the same as independent research.
Reference	Class	Cited by
blog.talosintelligence.com/2021/10/threat-hunting-in-large-datasets-by.html	Threat report	3
itconnect.uw.edu/tools-services-support/it-systems-infrastructure/msinf/other-help/understanding-sddl-syntax/	Unclassified	5
twitter.com/Alh4zr3d/status/1580925761996828672	Social post	5
www.sans.org/blog/red-team-tactics-hiding-windows-services/	Unclassified	7from 3 sources

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