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Suspicious Print Spooler File Deletion

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Suspicious Print Spooler File Deletion

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Detects deletion of print driver files by an unusual process. This may indicate a clean up attempt post successful privilege escalation via Print Spooler service related vulnerabilities.

Rule type: eql

Rule indices:

winlogbeat-*
logs-endpoint.events.*
logs-windows.*
endgame-*

Severity: medium

Risk score: 47

Runs every: 5m

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

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2021-34527

Tags:

Domain: Endpoint
OS: Windows
Use Case: Threat Detection
Tactic: Privilege Escalation
Data Source: Elastic Endgame
Use Case: Vulnerability
Data Source: Elastic Defend

Version: 104

Rule authors:

Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Investigation guide

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Rule query

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file where host.os.type == "windows" and event.type : "deletion" and
 not process.name : ("spoolsv.exe", "dllhost.exe", "explorer.exe") and
 file.path : "?:\\Windows\\System32\\spool\\drivers\\x64\\3\\*.dll"

Framework: MITRE ATT&CK^TM

Tactic:
- Name: Privilege Escalation
- ID: TA0004
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0004/
Technique:
- Name: Exploitation for Privilege Escalation
- ID: T1068
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1068/

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