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Potential Privilege Escalation via InstallerFileTakeOver

Identifies a potential exploitation of InstallerTakeOver (CVE-2021-41379) default PoC execution. Successful exploitation allows an unprivileged user to escalate privileges to SYSTEM.

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Detection Logic

process where host.os.type == "windows" and event.type == "start" and
    process.Ext.token.integrity_level_name : "System" and
    (
      (process.name : "elevation_service.exe" and
       not process.pe.original_file_name == "elevation_service.exe") or
      
      (process.name : "elevation_service.exe" and
       not process.code_signature.trusted == true) or

      (process.parent.name : "elevation_service.exe" and
       process.name : ("rundll32.exe", "cmd.exe", "powershell.exe"))
    ) and
    not
    (
      process.name : "elevation_service.exe" and process.code_signature.trusted == true and
      process.pe.original_file_name == null
    )

Field Validations

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