Suspicious PrintSpooler Service Executable File Creationedit

Detects attempts to exploit privilege escalation vulnerabilities related to the Print Spooler service. For more information refer to the following CVE’s - CVE-2020-1048, CVE-2020-1337 and CVE-2020-1300 and verify that the impacted system is patched.

Rule type: eql

Rule indices:

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

Severity: high

Risk score: 73

Runs every: 5m

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
  • Privilege Escalation

Version: 101

Rule authors:

  • Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Investigation guideedit


Rule queryedit

file where event.type == "creation" and
  process.name : "spoolsv.exe" and file.extension : "dll" and
  file.path : ("?:\\Windows\\System32\\*", "?:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\*") and
  not file.path :
          ("?:\\WINDOWS\\SysWOW64\\PrintConfig.dll",
           "?:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\x5lrs.dll",
           "?:\\WINDOWS\\sysWOW64\\x5lrs.dll",
           "?:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\PrintConfig.dll")

Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM