Scrnsave Reg

Description

Manual generation of attack data for SCRNSAVE.EXE registry entry for persistence and privilege escalation.

MITRE ATT&CK Techniques

ID Technique Tactic
T1546.002 Screensaver Persistence, Privilege Escalation

Environment Details

Field Value
Environment attack_range
Directory scrnsave_reg
Test Date 2021-09-28

Datasets

The following datasets were collected during this attack simulation:

Sysmon

  • Path: /datasets/attack_techniques/T1546.002/scrnsave_reg/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
Screensaver Event Trigger Execution TTP Endpoint T1546.002 Hermetic Wiper, Windows Privilege Escalation, Windows Persistence Techniques, Windows Registry Abuse, Data Destruction

Usage Instructions

Replay with Splunk Attack Data

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

1python replay.py --dataset /datasets/attack_techniques/T1546.002/scrnsave_reg/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