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Group Policy Abuse for Privilege Addition — Sigma Rule
Sigma rule 1c480e10-7ee1-46d4-8ed2-85f9789e3ce4. Group Policy Abuse for Privilege Addition — Sigma Rule. Detects the first occurrence of a modification to Group Policy Object Attributes to add privileges to user accounts or use them to add users as local admins.
Rule metadata and linked tags
Author: Elastic, Josh Nickels, Marius Rothenbücher. Source status: test; severity: medium. Source dates: 2024-09-04 / not supplied.
{
"product": "windows",
"service": "security",
"definition": "Requirements: The \"Audit Directory Service Changes\" logging policy must be configured in order to receive events."
}Pinned original Sigma rule · Detection Rule License 1.1
Source SHA-256: 9f40619e2c097c652b058b2a29e8bc50550c967fccfc73a53a2bd3898908da6c
Detection logic
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title: Group Policy Abuse for Privilege Addition
id: 1c480e10-7ee1-46d4-8ed2-85f9789e3ce4
status: test
description: |
Detects the first occurrence of a modification to Group Policy Object Attributes to add privileges to user accounts or use them to add users as local admins.
author: Elastic, Josh Nickels, Marius Rothenbücher
references:
- https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/security/current/group-policy-abuse-for-privilege-addition.html#_setup_275
date: 2024-09-04
tags:
- attack.privilege-escalation
- attack.defense-impairment
- attack.t1484.001
logsource:
product: windows
service: security
definition: 'Requirements: The "Audit Directory Service Changes" logging policy must be configured in order to receive events.'
detection:
selection:
EventID: 5136
AttributeLDAPDisplayName: 'gPCMachineExtensionNames'
AttributeValue|contains:
- '827D319E-6EAC-11D2-A4EA-00C04F79F83A'
- '803E14A0-B4FB-11D0-A0D0-00A0C90F574B'
condition: selection
falsepositives:
- Users allowed to perform these modifications (user found in field SubjectUserName)
level: medium
False positives
- Users allowed to perform these modifications (user found in field SubjectUserName)
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