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Adobe Hijack Persistence

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Adobe Hijack Persistence

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Detects the creation of an executable file or files that will be automatically run by Acrobat Reader when it starts.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

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

Severity: low

Risk score: 21

Runs every: 5 minutes

Searches indices from: now-9m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

Tags:

  • Elastic
  • Host
  • Windows
  • Threat Detection
  • Persistence

Version: 7 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.6.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 7.11.2

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License

Rule query

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event.category:file and event.type:creation and file.path:("C:\Program
Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AcroCEF\RdrCEF.exe" or
"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AcroCEF\RdrCEF.exe")
and not process.name:msiexec.exe

Threat mapping

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Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

Rule version history

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Version 7 (7.11.2 release)
  • Formatting only
Version 6 (7.11.0 release)
  • Formatting only
Version 5 (7.10.0 release)
  • Formatting only
Version 4 (7.9.1 release)
  • Formatting only
Version 3 (7.9.0 release)

  • Updated query, changed from:

    file.path:("C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader
DC\Reader\AcroCEF\RdrCEF.exe" or "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat
Reader DC\Reader\AcroCEF\RdrCEF.exe") and event.action:"File created
(rule: FileCreate)" and not process.name:msiexec.exe
Version 2 (7.6.2 release)

  • Updated query, changed from:

    file.path:("C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader
DC\Reader\AcroCEF\RdrCEF.exe" or "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat
Reader DC\Reader\AcroCEF\RdrCEF.exe") and event.action:"File created
(rule: FileCreate)" and not process.name:msiexeec.exe
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