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Remotely Started Services via RPC
editRemotely Started Services via RPC
editIdentifies remote execution of Windows services over remote procedure call (RPC). This could be indicative of lateral movement, but will be noisy if commonly done by administrators."
Rule type: eql
Rule indices:
- logs-endpoint.events.*
- winlogbeat-*
Severity: medium
Risk score: 47
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
- Lateral Movement
- Execution
Version: 1
Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.11.0
Rule authors: Elastic
Rule license: Elastic License
Rule query
editsequence with maxspan=1s [network where process.name : "services.exe" and network.direction == "incoming" and network.transport == "tcp" and source.port >= 49152 and destination.port >= 49152 and source.address not in ("127.0.0.1", "::1") ] by host.id, process.entity_id [process where event.type in ("start", "process_started") and process.parent.name : "services.exe" and not (process.name : "svchost.exe" and process.args : "tiledatamodelsvc") and not (process.name : "msiexec.exe" and process.args : "/V") /* uncomment if psexec is noisy in your environment */ /* and not process.name : "PSEXESVC.exe" */ ] by host.id, process.parent.entity_id
Threat mapping
editFramework: MITRE ATT&CKTM
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Tactic:
- Name: Lateral Movement
- ID: TA0008
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0008/
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Technique:
- Name: Remote Services
- ID: T1021
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1021/