Persistence via Update Orchestrator Service Hijackedit

Identifies potential hijacking of the Microsoft Update Orchestrator Service to establish persistence with an integrity level of SYSTEM.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

  • winlogbeat-*
  • logs-endpoint.events.*

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
  • Persistence

Version: 1

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.10.0

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License

Rule queryedit

event.category:process and event.type:(start or process_started) and
process.parent.name:svchost.exe and process.parent.args:(UsoSvc or
usosvc) and not process.name:(UsoClient.exe or usoclient.exe or
MusNotification.exe or musnotification.exe or MusNotificationUx.exe or
musnotificationux.exe)

Threat mappingedit

Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM