Potential Persistence Via LSA Extensions

Detects when an attacker modifies the "REG_MULTI_SZ" value named "Extensions" to include a custom DLL to achieve persistence via lsass. The "Extensions" list contains filenames of DLLs being automatically loaded by…

Description

Detects when an attacker modifies the "REG_MULTI_SZ" value named "Extensions" to include a custom DLL to achieve persistence via lsass. The "Extensions" list contains filenames of DLLs being automatically loaded by lsass.exe. Each DLL has its InitializeLsaExtension() method called after loading.

Detection logic

Detection requirements

Log source product: windows
Log source category: registry_set

Known benign triggers

Unlikely

References

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Reference	Class	Cited by
persistence-info.github.io/Data/lsaaextension.html	Unclassified	Only this detection cites it
twitter.com/0gtweet/status/1476286368385019906	Social post	Only this detection cites it

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Detection rules

Potential Persistence Via LSA Extensions

Description

Detection logic

Detection requirements

Known benign triggers

MITRE ATT&CK mappings

References

From the source

Licence

Authorship

Detection rules