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t1543.003

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administrative scripts
administrators may create windows services on remote systems, but this activity is usually limited to a small set of hosts or users.
administrators may start windows services on remote systems, but this activity is usually limited to a small set of hosts or users.
although uncommon, administrators may leverage impackets tools to start a process on remote systems for system administration or automation use cases.
false positives may arise in the rdp hijacking analytic when legitimate administrators access remote sessions for maintenance or troubleshooting purposes. these activities might resemble an attacker''s attempt to hijack a disconnected session, leading to false alarms. to mitigate the risk of false positives and improve the overall security posture, organizations can implement group policy to automatically disconnect rdp sessions when they are complete. by enforcing this policy, administrators ensure that disconnected sessions are promptly terminated, reducing the window of opportunity for an attacker to hijack a session. additionally, organizations can also implement access control mechanisms and monitor the behavior of privileged accounts to further enhance security and reduce the chances of false positives in rdp hijacking detection.
false positives may be present based on common applications adding new drivers, however, filter as needed.
false positives may be present, filter as needed based on administrative activity.
false positives may occur if one of the vulnerable driver names mentioned above didn't change its name between versions. so always make sure that the driver being loaded is the legitimate one and the non vulnerable version.
false positives should be limited as this is specific to krbrelayup based attack. filter as needed.
false positives should be limited.
false positives will be present. drill down into the driver further by version number and cross reference by signer. review the reference material in the lookup. in addition, modify the query to look within specific paths, which will remove a lot of \"normal\" drivers.
if you experience a lot of fp you could comment the driver name or its exact known legitimate location (when possible)
installation of a service
legitimate administration use
legitimate administrator or user creates a service for legitimate reasons.
legitimate applications may install services with uncommon services paths.
legitimate applications may spawn powershell as a child process of the the identified processes. filter as needed.
legitimate applications may trigger this behavior, filter as needed.
legitimate applications may use random windows service names.
legitimate use of psservice by an administrator
legitimate use of the tool
limited false positives will be present. some applications do load drivers
note that false positives may occur, and filtering may be necessary, especially when it comes to remote service creation by administrators or software management utilities.
rare legitimate installation of kernel drivers via sc.exe
software installation
the rule doesn't look for anything suspicious so false positives are expected. if you use one of the tools mentioned, comment it out
there is a relevant set of false positives depending on applications in the environment
unlikely
using sc.exe to manipulate windows services is uncommon. however, there may be legitimate instances of this behavior. it is important to validate and investigate as appropriate.