Registry Persistence via AppInit DLLs Modification

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'Adversaries may establish persistence and/or elevate privileges by executing malicious content triggered by AppInit DLLs loaded into processes. Dynamic-link libraries (DLLs) that are specified in the AppInit_DLLs value in the Registry keys HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows are loaded by user32.dll into every process that loads user32.dll. In practice this is nearly every

Attribute Value
Type Analytic Rule
Solution Endpoint Threat Protection Essentials
ID 9367dff0-941d-44e2-8875-cb48570c7add
Severity Medium
Status Available
Kind Scheduled
Tactics Persistence
Techniques T1546.010
Required Connectors SecurityEvents, WindowsSecurityEvents
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Table Selection Criteria Transformations Ingestion API Lake-Only
Event EventID == "13"
EventLog == "Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational"
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