PowerShell Modifying Registry Values (Windows Event Log)

id: '15967.23906'
title: PowerShell Modifying Registry Values
description: 'Adversaries may interact with the Windows Registry to hide configuration
  information within Registry keys, remove information as part of cleaning up, or
  as part of other techniques to aid in persistence and execution. This use case detects
  PowerShell commands accessing or modifying the Current User or Local Machine registry
  hives. -- Threat Actor Association: CL-STA-0043 -- Atomics T1059.001 Test #11 Atomics
  T1546.008 Test #1'
logic_format: Splunk
logic: '`get_endpoint_data` `get_endpoint_data_winevent` (TERM(EventCode=4688) OR
  "<EventID>4688<" OR Type=Process) (TERM(Invoke-Expression) OR "IEX") ("HKLM" OR
  "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" OR "HKCU" OR "HKEY_CURRENT_USER") | table _time, host, user
  process, process_*, signature_id | bin span=1s | stats values(*) as * by _time,
  host '
techniques:
- defense-evasion:modify registry
- execution:command and scripting interpreter:powershell
technique_id:
- T1112
- T1059.001
data_category:
- Windows event logs
- Process command-line parameters
references:
- https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/master/atomics/T1059.001/T1059.001.md#atomic-test-11---powershell-fileless-script-execution