New PDQDeploy Service - Server Side — Sigma Rule

Rule metadata and linked tags

Author: Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems). Source status: test; severity: medium. Source dates: 2022-07-22 / not supplied.

{
  "product": "windows",
  "service": "system"
}

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Source SHA-256: ed64f729b3aa62d2370b423ea16953ce91ca1696e39903276d6e543b4e5ef2cd

Detection logic

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title: New PDQDeploy Service - Server Side
id: ee9ca27c-9bd7-4cee-9b01-6e906be7cae3
status: test
description: |
    Detects a PDQDeploy service installation which indicates that PDQDeploy was installed on the machines.
    PDQDeploy can be abused by attackers to remotely install packages or execute commands on target machines
references:
    - https://documentation.pdq.com/PDQDeploy/13.0.3.0/index.html?windows-services.htm
author: Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
date: 2022-07-22
tags:
    - attack.persistence
    - attack.privilege-escalation
    - attack.t1543.003
logsource:
    product: windows
    service: system
detection:
    selection_root:
        Provider_Name: 'Service Control Manager'
        EventID: 7045
    selection_service:
        - ImagePath|contains: 'PDQDeployService.exe'
        - ServiceName:
              - 'PDQDeploy'
              - 'PDQ Deploy'
    condition: all of selection_*
falsepositives:
    - Legitimate use of the tool
level: medium

Original YAML and metadata in JSON

False positives

• Legitimate use of the tool

Source references

• https://documentation.pdq.com/PDQDeploy/13.0.3.0/index.html?windows-services.htm