[metadata] creation_date = "2023/08/29" integration = ["endpoint"] maturity = "production" min_stack_comments = "New fields added: required_fields, related_integrations, setup" min_stack_version = "8.3.0" updated_date = "2023/08/29" bypass_bbr_timing = true [rule] author = ["Elastic"] description = """ Identifies the registration of a Werfault Debugger. Attackers may abuse this mechanism to execute malicious payloads every time the utility is executed with the "-pr" parameter. """ from = "now-9m" index = ["logs-endpoint.events.*", "endgame-*"] language = "eql" license = "Elastic License v2" name = "Werfault ReflectDebugger Persistence" risk_score = 21 rule_id = "205b52c4-9c28-4af4-8979-935f3278d61a" severity = "low" tags = ["Domain: Endpoint", "OS: Windows", "Use Case: Threat Detection", "Tactic: Persistence", "Data Source: Elastic Endgame", "Data Source: Elastic Defend", "Rule Type: BBR"] timestamp_override = "event.ingested" building_block_type = "default" type = "eql" query = ''' registry where event.type == "change" and registry.path : ( "HKLM\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Windows Error Reporting\\Hangs\\ReflectDebugger", "\\REGISTRY\\MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Windows Error Reporting\\Hangs\\ReflectDebugger" ) ''' [[rule.threat]] framework = "MITRE ATT&CK" [[rule.threat.technique]] id = "T1546" name = "Event Triggered Execution" reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1546/" [rule.threat.tactic] id = "TA0003" name = "Persistence" reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0003/" [[rule.threat]] framework = "MITRE ATT&CK" [[rule.threat.technique]] id = "T1112" name = "Modify Registry" reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1112/" [rule.threat.tactic] id = "TA0005" name = "Defense Evasion" reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0005/"