Potential Privilege Escalation via MSI Repair
Description
Identifies a browser process navigates to the Microsoft Help page followed by spawning an elevated process. This may indicate a successful exploitation for privilege escalation abusing a vulnerable Windows Installer repair setup.
Query · eql
process where event.action == "start" and process.Ext.token.integrity_level_name == "system" and
process.parent.name in~ ("chrome.exe", "msedge.exe", "brave.exe", "whale.exe", "browser.exe", "dragon.exe", "vivaldi.exe",
"opera.exe", "iexplore", "firefox.exe", "waterfox.exe", "iexplore.exe", "tor.exe", "safari.exe") and
process.parent.command_line like "*go.microsoft.com*" and
not process.executable :
("?:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft\\Edge\\Application\\msedge.exe",
"?:\\Program Files\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe",
"?:\\Program Files (x86)\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe",
"?:\\Program Files\\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe",
"?:\\Program Files (x86)\\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe",
"?:\\Program Files (x86)\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\*\\Installer\\chrmstp.exe")