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Potential Remote Desktop Shadowing Activity
editPotential Remote Desktop Shadowing Activity
editIdentifies the modification of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) Shadow registry or the execution of processes indicative of an active RDP shadowing session. An adversary may abuse the RDP Shadowing feature to spy on or control other users active RDP sessions.
Rule type: eql
Rule indices:
- logs-endpoint.events.*
- winlogbeat-*
- logs-windows.*
- endgame-*
Severity: high
Risk score: 73
Runs every: 5m
Searches indices from: now-9m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)
Maximum alerts per execution: 100
References:
Tags:
- Domain: Endpoint
- OS: Windows
- Use Case: Threat Detection
- Tactic: Lateral Movement
- Data Source: Elastic Endgame
- Data Source: Elastic Defend
Version: 107
Rule authors:
- Elastic
Rule license: Elastic License v2
Rule query
edit/* Identifies the modification of RDP Shadow registry or
the execution of processes indicative of active shadow RDP session */
any where host.os.type == "windows" and
(
(event.category == "registry" and
registry.path : (
"HKLM\\Software\\Policies\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\Terminal Services\\Shadow",
"\\REGISTRY\\MACHINE\\Software\\Policies\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\Terminal Services\\Shadow"
)
) or
(event.category == "process" and event.type == "start" and
(process.name : ("RdpSaUacHelper.exe", "RdpSaProxy.exe") and process.parent.name : "svchost.exe") or
(process.pe.original_file_name : "mstsc.exe" and process.args : "/shadow:*")
)
)
Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM
-
Tactic:
- Name: Lateral Movement
- ID: TA0008
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0008/
-
Technique:
- Name: Remote Services
- ID: T1021
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1021/
-
Sub-technique:
- Name: Remote Desktop Protocol
- ID: T1021.001
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1021/001/