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UAC Bypass Using WOW64 Logger DLL Hijack

Status
test
Severity
high
Log source
category process_access, product windows
Author
Christian Burkard (Nextron Systems)
Source
github.com/SigmaHQ/sigma

Detects the pattern of UAC Bypass using a WoW64 logger DLL hijack (UACMe 30)

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Telemetry coverage

ProviderRecord / event type
SysmonEvent ID 10: ProcessAccess

Rule body

title: UAC Bypass Using WOW64 Logger DLL Hijack
id: 4f6c43e2-f989-4ea5-bcd8-843b49a0317c
status: test
description: Detects the pattern of UAC Bypass using a WoW64 logger DLL hijack (UACMe 30)
references:
    - https://github.com/hfiref0x/UACME
author: Christian Burkard (Nextron Systems)
date: 2021-08-23
modified: 2022-10-09
tags:
    - attack.privilege-escalation
    - attack.t1548.002
logsource:
    category: process_access
    product: windows
detection:
    selection:
        SourceImage|contains: ':\Windows\SysWOW64\'
        GrantedAccess: '0x1fffff'
        CallTrace|startswith: 'UNKNOWN(0000000000000000)|UNKNOWN(0000000000000000)|'
    condition: selection
falsepositives:
    - Unknown
level: high

Stages and Predicates

Stage 0: condition

selection

Stage 1: selection

selection:
    SourceImage|contains: ':\Windows\SysWOW64\'
    GrantedAccess: '0x1fffff'
    CallTrace|startswith: 'UNKNOWN(0000000000000000)|UNKNOWN(0000000000000000)|'

Indicators

These rows show field, operator, and value matches.

FieldKindValuesSearch
CallTracestarts_with
  • UNKNOWN(0000000000000000)|UNKNOWN(0000000000000000)|
field:"CallTrace" kind:starts_with value:"UNKNOWN(0000000000000000)|UNKNOWN(0000000000000000)|"
GrantedAccesseq
  • 0x1fffff corpus 9 (sigma 7, splunk 1, kusto 1)
field:"GrantedAccess" kind:eq value:"0x1fffff"
SourceImagematch
  • :\Windows\SysWOW64\
field:"SourceImage" kind:match value:":\Windows\SysWOW64\"