Query Registry T1012
Tactic: Discovery
Adversaries may interact with the Windows Registry to gather information about the system, configuration, and installed software.
Events covered
7 catalog events are tagged with this technique by at least one rule.
| Provider | Event | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sysmon | Event ID 1 | Process creation |
| Security-Auditing | Event ID 4656 | A handle to an object was requested. |
| Security-Auditing | Event ID 4663 | An attempt was made to access an object. |
| Security-Auditing | Event ID 4688 | A new process has been created. |
| Security-Auditing | Event ID 4799 | A security-enabled local group membership was enumerated. |
| PowerShell | Event ID 4103 | Payload Context: ContextInfo User Data: UserData. |
| PowerShell | Event ID 4104 | Creating Scriptblock text (MessageNumber of MessageTotal). |
Authoring guide
These 34 rules share fields, values, and exclusions.
Fields filtered most (27 distinct)
These fields appear most often in rule filters.
Top indicator values (269 distinct)
These values appear most often in rule predicates.
Exclusions (49 distinct)
These values appear most often in top-level exclusions.
Rules under this technique
These vendors publish rules tagged with this technique.
Platform: Windows
Domain: Endpoint
Sigma 13 rules
- Azure AD Health Monitoring Agent Registry Keys Access
- Azure AD Health Service Agents Registry Keys Access
- Exports Critical Registry Keys To a File
- Exports Registry Key To a File
- HackTool - PCHunter Execution
- Operation Wocao Activity
- Operation Wocao Activity - Security
- Potential Baby Shark Malware Activity
- Potential Configuration And Service Reconnaissance Via Reg.EXE
- Potential Registry Reconnaissance Via PowerShell Script
- Registry Enumeration via WMI Stdregprov
- SAM Registry Hive Handle Request
- SysKey Registry Keys Access
Elastic 3 rules
- Deprecated - PowerShell Script with Discovery Capabilities
- Enumeration Command Spawned via WMIPrvSE
- Query Registry using Built-in Tools
Splunk 17 rules
- Query Registry (PowerShell)
- Query Registry (Windows Event Log)
- Reg.exe Process Execution (Sysmon)
- Reg.exe Process Execution (Windows Event Log)
- Windows Credential Access From Browser Password Store
- Windows Credentials from Password Stores Chrome Extension Access
- Windows Credentials from Password Stores Chrome LocalState Access
- Windows Credentials from Password Stores Chrome Login Data Access
- Windows Hosts File Access
- Windows Non Discord App Access Discord LevelDB
- Windows Post Exploitation Risk Behavior
- Windows Product Key Registry Query
- Windows Query Registry Browser List Application
- Windows Query Registry UnInstall Program List
- Windows Registry Entries Exported Via Reg
- Windows Registry Entries Restored Via Reg
- Windows Software Discovery Via PowerShell