title: Application Whitelisting Bypass via DLL Loaded by odbcconf.exe
id: 65d2be45-8600-4042-b4c0-577a1ff8a60e
status: test
description: Detects defence evasion attempt via odbcconf.exe execution to load DLL
author: Kirill Kiryanov, Beyu Denis, Daniil Yugoslavskiy, oscd.community
references:
  - https://github.com/LOLBAS-Project/LOLBAS/blob/master/yml/OSBinaries/Odbcconf.yml
  - https://twitter.com/Hexacorn/status/1187143326673330176
date: 2019/10/25
modified: 2021/11/27
logsource:
  category: process_creation
  product: windows
detection:
  selection_1:
    Image|endswith: '\odbcconf.exe'
    CommandLine|contains:
      - '-f'
      - 'regsvr'
  selection_2:
    ParentImage|endswith: '\odbcconf.exe'
    Image|endswith: '\rundll32.exe'
  condition: selection_1 or selection_2
falsepositives:
  - Legitimate use of odbcconf.exe by legitimate user
level: medium
tags:
  - attack.defense_evasion
  - attack.t1218.008