LoFP LoFP / there may be other processes in your environment that users may legitimately use to modify file associations. if this is the case and you are finding false positives, you can modify the search to add those processes as exceptions.

Techniques

Sample rules

Suspicious Changes to File Associations

Description

This search looks for changes to registry values that control Windows file associations, executed by a process that is not typical for legitimate, routine changes to this area.

Detection logic


| tstats `security_content_summariesonly` count min(_time) as firstTime max(_time) as lastTime values(Processes.process_name) as process_name values(Processes.parent_process_name) as parent_process_name FROM datamodel=Endpoint.Processes where Processes.process_name!=Explorer.exe AND Processes.process_name!=OpenWith.exe by Processes.process_id Processes.dest 
| `drop_dm_object_name("Processes")` 
| `security_content_ctime(firstTime)` 
| `security_content_ctime(lastTime)` 
| join [
| tstats `security_content_summariesonly` values(Registry.registry_path) as registry_path count from datamodel=Endpoint.Registry where Registry.registry_path=*\\Explorer\\FileExts* by Registry.process_id Registry.dest 
| `drop_dm_object_name("Registry")` 
| table process_id dest registry_path]
| `suspicious_changes_to_file_associations_filter`