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SolarWinds Process Disabling Services via Registry
editSolarWinds Process Disabling Services via Registry
editIdentifies a SolarWinds binary modifying the start type of a service to be disabled. An adversary may abuse this technique to manipulate relevant security services.
Rule type: eql
Rule indices:
- winlogbeat-*
- logs-endpoint.events.*
- logs-windows.*
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
References:
Tags:
- Elastic
- Host
- Windows
- Threat Detection
- Defense Evasion
Version: 5 (version history)
Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.11.0
Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 8.2.0
Rule authors: Elastic
Rule license: Elastic License v2
Investigation guide
edit## Config If enabling an EQL rule on a non-elastic-agent index (such as beats) for versions <8.2, events will not define `event.ingested` and default fallback for EQL rules was not added until 8.2, so you will need to add a custom pipeline to populate `event.ingested` to @timestamp for this rule to work.
Rule query
editregistry where registry.path : "HKLM\\SYSTEM\\*ControlSet*\\Services\\*\\Start" and registry.data.strings : ("4", "0x00000004") and process.name : ( "SolarWinds.BusinessLayerHost*.exe", "ConfigurationWizard*.exe", "NetflowDatabaseMaintenance*.exe", "NetFlowService*.exe", "SolarWinds.Administration*.exe", "SolarWinds.Collector.Service*.exe" , "SolarwindsDiagnostics*.exe")
Threat mapping
editFramework: MITRE ATT&CKTM
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Tactic:
- Name: Defense Evasion
- ID: TA0005
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0005/
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Technique:
- Name: Impair Defenses
- ID: T1562
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1562/
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Tactic:
- Name: Initial Access
- ID: TA0001
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0001/
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Technique:
- Name: Supply Chain Compromise
- ID: T1195
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1195/
Rule version history
edit- Version 5 (8.2.0 release)
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- Formatting only
- Version 4 (8.1.0 release)
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-
Updated query, changed from:
registry where registry.path : "HKLM\\SYSTEM\\*ControlSet*\\Services\\*\\Start" and registry.data.strings == "4" and process.name : ( "SolarWinds.BusinessLayerHost*.exe", "ConfigurationWizard*.exe", "NetflowDatabaseMaintenance*.exe", "NetFlowService*.exe", "SolarWinds.Administration*.exe", "SolarWinds.Collector.Service*.exe" , "SolarwindsDiagnostics*.exe")
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- Version 3 (7.12.0 release)
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- Formatting only
- Version 2 (7.11.2 release)
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- Formatting only