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Stop Windows Service Via Sc.EXE

A Sigma rule for process creation on Windows, by Jakob Weinzettl, oscd.community, Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems).

low 1 ATT&CK technique 1 program it names 1 everyday example trips it

What it looks for

its detection, as SigmaHQ writes it
detection:
  selection_cli:
    CommandLine|contains: ' stop '
  selection_img:
    - OriginalFileName: 'sc.exe'
    - Image|endswith: '\sc.exe'
  condition: all of selection_*

The rule’s detection, its selections and fields in order of name. The whole rule, with its references and false positives, is on SigmaHQ, by Jakob Weinzettl, oscd.community, Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems), under the Detection Rule License 1.1. CmdID evaluates it on a command line alone: a test on what a command line cannot show, such as the parent process or the user, is not met.

Command lines that trip it

everyday examples from tldr-pages, CC BY 4.0, each read by CmdID

Stop a service asynchronously on the page for sc.exe

sc stop service_nameIdentify

Programs and files it names

their pages here
sc.exe

ATT&CK

the techniques it is tagged with
T1489Service Stop

Other rules for T1489 Service Stop

Disable Or Stop Services · Stop Windows Service Via Net.EXE · Stop Windows Service Via PowerShell Stop-Service · Delete Important Scheduled Task · Delete All Scheduled Tasks · Disable Important Scheduled Task · Suspicious Windows Service Tampering · Process Terminated Via Taskkill