Software Deployment Tools T1072
Tactics: Execution, Lateral Movement
Adversaries may gain access to and use centralized software suites installed within an enterprise to execute commands and move laterally through the network. Configuration management and software deployment applications may be used in an enterprise network or cloud environment for routine administration purposes. These systems may also be integrated into CI/CD pipelines. Examples of such solutions include: SCCM, HBSS, Altiris, AWS Systems Manager, Microsoft Intune, Azure Arc, and GCP Deployment Manager.
Events covered
10 catalog events are tagged with this technique by at least one rule.
Authoring guide
Patterns shared across the 31 rules above: which fields they filter on, what specific values they look for, and what they exclude. The catalog normalizes field names across vendors so Sigma's Image, Elastic's process.name, and Splunk's process_name collapse into one row. Each rule contributes at most once per row.
Fields filtered most (33 distinct)
The fields most rules look at when detecting this technique. The How column shows the operators authors use (eq, wildcard, regex_match, match) and how often each appears. Sample values are concrete examples to start from, not an exhaustive list.
Top indicator values (117 distinct)
Specific (field, operator, value) combinations the rules check for, ranked by how many rules under this technique use each one. The Corpus reach column counts how many rules across the entire catalog (any technique) check the same combination. High numbers point to widely-used indicators that are likely noisy on their own; combine them with another condition for useful signal. Blank means the combination is specific to rules under this technique. Click a value to expand the rules under this technique that use it.
Exclusions (3 distinct)
Field/operator/value combinations excluded by rules under this technique (top-level not() clauses), sorted by how many rules exclude each. These are the false-positive paths the community has learned to filter out. A new rule that ignores the high-count entries here will likely fire on the same noisy paths. Click a value to expand the rules under this technique that exclude it.
Rules under this technique
Every rule in the catalog tagged with this technique, grouped by vendor. Click a rule title for its full predicates, exclusions, and indicators.
Sigma 4 rules
- PDQ Deploy Remote Adminstartion Tool Execution
- PUA - Radmin Viewer Utility Execution
- Restricted Software Access By SRP
- Suspicious Csi.exe Usage
Elastic 4 rules
- New GitHub App Installed
- Potential WSUS Abuse for Lateral Movement
- Suspicious Curl to Jamf Endpoint
- Tool Installation Detected via Defend for Containers
Splunk 8 rules
- Detection of tools built by NirSoft
- Microsoft Intune Device Health Scripts
- Microsoft Intune DeviceManagementConfigurationPolicies
- Microsoft Intune Manual Device Management
- Microsoft Intune Mobile Apps
- Radmin execution (EDR)
- Radmin execution (Sysmon)
- Radmin execution (Windows Event Log)
Kusto 4 rules
- Azure DevOps Pipeline Created and Deleted on the Same Day
- BTP - Malware detected in BAS dev space
- New EXE deployed via Default Domain or Default Domain Controller Policies
- New EXE deployed via Default Domain or Default Domain Controller Policies (ASIM Version)
Panther 11 rules
- GitHub Artifact Download from Cross-Fork Workflow
- GitHub Cross-Fork Workflow Run
- GitHub Malicious Issue/Pages Content
- GitHub Malicious Pull Request Content
- GitHub pull_request_target Workflow on Self-Hosted Runner
- GitHub pull_request_target Workflow Usage
- GitHub pull_request_target Workflow with Checkout Action
- GitHub Workflow Contains Checkout Action
- GitHub Workflow Using Self-Hosted Runner
- Intune Create or Modify Client App
- Intune New Device Management Script