Elastic low stable eql

Service Command Lateral Movement

Identifies use of sc.exe to create, modify, or start services on remote hosts. This could be indicative of adversary lateral movement but will be noisy if commonly done by admins.

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Detection Logic

sequence by process.entity_id with maxspan = 1m
  [process where host.os.type == "windows" and event.type == "start" and
     (process.name : "sc.exe" or process.pe.original_file_name : "sc.exe") and
      process.args : "\\\\*" and process.args : ("binPath=*", "binpath=*") and
      process.args : ("create", "config", "failure", "start")]
  [network where host.os.type == "windows" and process.name : "sc.exe" and destination.ip != "127.0.0.1"]

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