Uac Behavior

Description

Detection of common User Account Control bypass techniques, generated using Atomic Tests for T1548.002

MITRE ATT&CK Techniques

ID Technique Tactic
T1548.002 Bypass User Account Control Defense Evasion, Privilege Escalation

Environment Details

Field Value
Environment attack_range
Directory uac_behavior
Test Date 2023-11-20

Datasets

The following datasets were collected during this attack simulation:

Uac_behavior_sysmon

  • Path: /datasets/attack_techniques/T1548.002/uac_behavior/uac_behavior_sysmon.log
  • Sourcetype: XmlWinEventLog
  • Source: XmlWinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational

The following detections in our security content repository use this attack data for testing:

Detection Name Type Source MITRE ATT&CK Analytic Story
Windows UAC Bypass Suspicious Child Process TTP Endpoint T1548.002 Windows Defense Evasion Tactics, Living Off The Land
Windows UAC Bypass Suspicious Escalation Behavior TTP Endpoint T1548.002 Living Off The Land, Compromised Windows Host, Windows Defense Evasion Tactics

Usage Instructions

Replay with Splunk Attack Data

Replay attack data with replay.py from Splunk Attack Data.

1python replay.py --dataset /datasets/attack_techniques/T1548.002/uac_behavior/uac_behavior_sysmon.log --index attack_data

Manual Import

  1. Download the dataset files from the paths listed above
  2. Configure your Splunk instance with the appropriate sourcetypes
  3. Import the logs using the Splunk Add Data wizard

Find more detections and analytics for this attack technique in our security content repository.


Source: GitHub | Version: 1.0