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Control Panel Process with Unusual Argumentsedit
Identifies unusual instances of Control Panel with suspicious keywords or paths in the process command line value. Adversaries may abuse control.exe to proxy execution of malicious code.
Rule type: eql
Rule indices:
- logs-endpoint.events.*
- winlogbeat-*
- logs-windows.*
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
- Defense Evasion
Version: 101 (version history)
Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.16.0
Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 8.5.0
Rule authors: Elastic
Rule license: Elastic License v2
Investigation guideedit
Rule queryedit
process where event.type == "start" and process.executable :
("?:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\control.exe",
"?:\\Windows\\System32\\control.exe") and process.command_line :
("*.jpg*", "*.png*", "*.gif*",
"*.bmp*", "*.jpeg*", "*.TIFF*",
"*.inf*", "*.cpl:*/*", "*../../..*",
"*/AppData/Local/*", "*:\\Users\\Public\\*",
"*\\AppData\\Local\\*")
Threat mappingedit
Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM
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Tactic:
- Name: Defense Evasion
- ID: TA0005
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0005/
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Technique:
- Name: System Binary Proxy Execution
- ID: T1218
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1218/
Rule version historyedit
- Version 101 (8.5.0 release)
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Updated query, changed from:
process where event.type in ("start", "process_started") and process.executable : ("?:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\control.exe", "?:\\Windows\\System32\\control.exe") and process.command_line : ("*.jpg*", "*.png*", "*.gif*", "*.bmp*", "*.jpeg*", "*.TIFF*", "*.inf*", "*.cpl:*/*", "*../../..*", "*/AppData/Local/*", "*:\\Users\\Public\\*", "*\\AppData\\Local\\*")
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- Version 5 (8.4.0 release)
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Updated query, changed from:
process where event.type in ("start", "process_started") and process.executable : ("?:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\control.exe", "?:\\Windows\\System32\\control.exe") and process.command_line : ("*.jpg*", "*.png*", "*.gif*", "*.bmp*", "*.jpeg*", "*.TIFF*", "*.inf*", "*.dat*", "*.cpl:*/*", "*../../..*", "*/AppData/Local/*", "*:\\Users\\Public\\*", "*\\AppData\\Local\\*")
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- Version 3 (8.2.0 release)
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- Formatting only
- Version 2 (8.0.0 release)
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- Formatting only