Inhibit System Recovery via Untrusted Parent Process


Description

Identifies the execution of Windows utilities to tamper with system recovery settings. Adversaries may delete or remove built-in operating system data and turn off services designed to aid in the recovery of a corrupted system and prevent recovery.

Query · eql

sequence with maxspan=1m
  [process where event.action == "start" and
    process.Ext.token.integrity_level_name : ("high", "system") and
    not process.executable : ("?:\\Program Files\\*.exe", "?:\\Program Files (x86)\\*.exe", "?:\\Windows\\System32\\*.exe", "?:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\*.exe") and
    not process.code_signature.trusted == true and
    not process.hash.sha256 : "60ccd4ba2566d96676b448203fb4414a39c7c1e004e8c3fa1bbce139403ef1fb"] by process.entity_id
  [process where event.action == "start" and
    (
      (process.pe.original_file_name : "wmic.exe" and process.command_line : "*shadowcopy*" and process.command_line : "*delete*") or
      (process.pe.original_file_name : "vssadmin.exe" and process.command_line : "*shadows*" and process.command_line : ("*delete*", "*resize*")) or
      (process.pe.original_file_name : "bcdedit.exe" and process.command_line : ("*bootstatuspolicy*", "*recoveryenabled*")) or
      (process.pe.original_file_name : "wbadmin.exe" and process.command_line : ("*catalog*", "*systemstatebackup*") and process.command_line : "*delete*")
    ) and
    not (process.name : "bcdedit.exe" and process.args in ("ignoreallfailures", "displayallfailures"))
  ] by process.parent.entity_id
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[rule]
description = """
Identifies the execution of Windows utilities to tamper with system recovery settings. Adversaries may delete or remove
built-in operating system data and turn off services designed to aid in the recovery of a corrupted system and prevent
recovery.
"""
id = "d3588fad-43ae-4f2d-badd-15a27df72132"
license = "Elastic License v2"
name = "Inhibit System Recovery via Untrusted Parent Process"
os_list = ["windows"]
version = "1.0.33"

query = '''
sequence with maxspan=1m
  [process where event.action == "start" and
    process.Ext.token.integrity_level_name : ("high", "system") and
    not process.executable : ("?:\\Program Files\\*.exe", "?:\\Program Files (x86)\\*.exe", "?:\\Windows\\System32\\*.exe", "?:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\*.exe") and
    not process.code_signature.trusted == true and
    not process.hash.sha256 : "60ccd4ba2566d96676b448203fb4414a39c7c1e004e8c3fa1bbce139403ef1fb"] by process.entity_id
  [process where event.action == "start" and
    (
      (process.pe.original_file_name : "wmic.exe" and process.command_line : "*shadowcopy*" and process.command_line : "*delete*") or
      (process.pe.original_file_name : "vssadmin.exe" and process.command_line : "*shadows*" and process.command_line : ("*delete*", "*resize*")) or
      (process.pe.original_file_name : "bcdedit.exe" and process.command_line : ("*bootstatuspolicy*", "*recoveryenabled*")) or
      (process.pe.original_file_name : "wbadmin.exe" and process.command_line : ("*catalog*", "*systemstatebackup*") and process.command_line : "*delete*")
    ) and
    not (process.name : "bcdedit.exe" and process.args in ("ignoreallfailures", "displayallfailures"))
  ] by process.parent.entity_id
'''

min_endpoint_version = "7.15.0"
[[actions]]
action = "kill_process"
field = "process.entity_id"
state = 1

[[optional_actions]]
action = "rollback"
field = "process.entity_id"
state = 1

[[threat]]
framework = "MITRE ATT&CK"
[[threat.technique]]
id = "T1490"
name = "Inhibit System Recovery"
reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1490/"


[threat.tactic]
id = "TA0040"
name = "Impact"
reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0040/"

[internal]
min_endpoint_version = "7.15.0"

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