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Privilege Escalation via Rogue Named Pipe Impersonation
editPrivilege Escalation via Rogue Named Pipe Impersonation
editIdentifies a privilege escalation attempt via rogue named pipe impersonation. An adversary may abuse this technique by masquerading as a known named pipe and manipulating a privileged process to connect to it.
Rule type: eql
Rule indices:
- winlogbeat-*
- logs-windows.*
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: Privilege Escalation
- Data Source: Sysmon Only
Version: 105
Rule authors:
- Elastic
Rule license: Elastic License v2
Rule query
editfile where host.os.type == "windows" and event.action : "Pipe Created*" and /* normal sysmon named pipe creation events truncate the pipe keyword */ file.name : "\\*\\Pipe\\*"
Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM
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Tactic:
- Name: Privilege Escalation
- ID: TA0004
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0004/
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Technique:
- Name: Access Token Manipulation
- ID: T1134
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1134/