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Registry Modification of MS-settings Protocol Handler

A Sigma rule for process creation on Windows, by frack113, Swachchhanda Shrawan Poudel (Nextron Systems).

medium 3 ATT&CK techniques 3 programs it names

What it looks for

its detection, as SigmaHQ writes it
detection:
  selection_cli_key:
    CommandLine|contains: '\ms-settings\shell\open\command'
  selection_pwsh_cli:
    CommandLine|contains:
      - 'New-ItemProperty'
      - 'Set-ItemProperty'
      - 'ni '
      - 'sp '
  selection_pwsh_img:
    - Image|endswith:
        - '\powershell.exe'
        - '\pwsh.exe'
    - OriginalFileName:
        - 'powershell.exe'
        - 'pwsh.dll'
  selection_reg_cli:
    CommandLine|contains: 'add'
  selection_reg_img:
    - Image|endswith: '\reg.exe'
    - OriginalFileName: 'reg.exe'
  condition: (all of selection_reg_* or all of selection_pwsh_*) and selection_cli_key

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 frack113, Swachchhanda Shrawan Poudel (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.

None of the everyday examples and documented commands on CmdID’s program pages trips it. To see whether a command line does, paste it into CmdID.

Programs and files it names

their pages here

ATT&CK

the techniques it is tagged with
T1112Modify Registry
T1546.001Event Triggered Execution: Change Default File Association
T1548.002Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism: Bypass User Account Control