Autorun or ASEP Registry Key Modification
Adversaries and malware persist by adding a program to the startup folder or a Registry run key, so it runs at user logon. Run keys have legitimate uses, but malicious entries often have random names or load objects…
Description
Adversaries and malware persist by adding a program to the startup folder or a Registry run key, so it runs at user logon. Run keys have legitimate uses, but malicious entries often have random names or load objects from temp or public folders.
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
- securityeventswindowssecurityevents
- Log source service
- securityevent
MITRE ATT&CK mappings
0 exclusive techniques.This is coverage no other published rule has; it is not this rule's total technique count.
No references are available for this detection.
From the source
- At source
- Open at source
- Upstream identifier
- 8289e2ad-bc74-4ae3-bfaa-cdeb4335135c
- Tagged by the source as
- PersistencePrivilegeEscalation
Licence
- Published under
- MIT LicenseRead the licence
- Attribution
- Required
- Obtained under
- MITRead the origin licence
Authorship
- Published
- Sep 1, 2026
- Version
- 1