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+[metadata]
+creation_date = "2020/11/23"
+maturity = "production"
+updated_date = "2020/11/23"
+
+[rule]
+author = ["Elastic"]
+description = """
+Identifies the creation of a suspicious ImagePath value. This could be an indication of an adversary attempting to
+stealthily persist or escalate privileges through abnormal service creation.
+"""
+index = ["winlogbeat-*", "logs-endpoint.events.*"]
+language = "eql"
+license = "Elastic License"
+name = "Suspicious ImagePath Service Creation"
+risk_score = 73
+rule_id = "36a8e048-d888-4f61-a8b9-0f9e2e40f317"
+severity = "high"
+tags = ["Elastic", "Host", "Windows", "Threat Detection", "Persistence"]
+type = "eql"
+
+query = '''
+registry where registry.path : "HKLM\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet*\\Services\\*\\ImagePath" and
+ /* add suspicious registry ImagePath values here */
+ registry.data.strings : ("%COMSPEC%*", "*\\.\\pipe\\*")
+'''
+
+
+[[rule.threat]]
+framework = "MITRE ATT&CK"
+[[rule.threat.technique]]
+id = "T1050"
+name = "New Service"
+reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1050/"
+
+
+[rule.threat.tactic]
+id = "TA0003"
+name = "Persistence"
+reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0003/"