Uac Bypass

Description

Privilege elevation abuse by bypassing uac windows feature

MITRE ATT&CK Techniques

ID Technique Tactic
T1548 Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism Defense Evasion, Privilege Escalation

Environment Details

Field Value
Environment attack_range
Directory uac_bypass
Test Date 2021-07-23

Datasets

The following datasets were collected during this attack simulation:

Windows-Sysmon2

  • Path: /datasets/attack_techniques/T1548/uac_bypass/windows-sysmon2.log
  • Sourcetype: XmlWinEventLog
  • Source: XmlWinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational

Windows-Sysmon

  • Path: /datasets/attack_techniques/T1548/uac_bypass/windows-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
WSReset UAC Bypass TTP Endpoint T1548.002 Windows Defense Evasion Tactics, Living Off The Land, Windows Registry Abuse, MoonPeak
Sdclt UAC Bypass TTP Endpoint T1548.002 Windows Defense Evasion Tactics, Windows Registry Abuse
SilentCleanup UAC Bypass TTP Endpoint T1548.002 Windows Defense Evasion Tactics, Windows Registry Abuse, MoonPeak
NET Profiler UAC bypass TTP Endpoint T1548.002 Windows Defense Evasion Tactics
UAC Bypass MMC Load Unsigned Dll TTP Endpoint T1218.014, T1548.002 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/uac_bypass/windows-sysmon2.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