title: Service Execution
id: 2a072a96-a086-49fa-bcb5-15cc5a619093
status: test
description: Detects manual service execution (start) via system utilities.
author: Timur Zinniatullin, Daniil Yugoslavskiy, oscd.community
references:
  - https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/master/atomics/T1569.002/T1569.002.md
date: 2019/10/21
modified: 2021/11/27
logsource:
  category: process_creation
  product: windows
detection:
  selection:
    Image|endswith:
      - '\net.exe'
      - '\net1.exe'
    CommandLine|contains: ' start '     # space character after the 'start' keyword indicates that a service name follows, in contrast to `net start` discovery expression 
  condition: selection
falsepositives:
  - Legitimate administrator or user executes a service for legitimate reasons.
level: low
tags:
  - attack.execution
  - attack.t1569.002