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name: UAC bypass via NTFS junction DLL hijacking
id: 9cdfa658-e8d5-4391-a4d8-0b53f8158782
version: 1.0.0
description: |
Detects potential User Account Control (UAC) bypass activity leveraging
NTFS junctions in combination with DLL hijacking to achieve elevated code
execution. Attackers can manipulate filesystem redirection features to
coerce trusted Windows components into loading malicious libraries.
labels:
tactic.id: TA0004
tactic.name: Privilege Escalation
tactic.ref: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0004/
technique.id: T1548
technique.name: Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism
technique.ref: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1548/
subtechnique.id: T1548.002
subtechnique.name: Bypass User Account Control
subtechnique.ref: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1548/002/
references:
- https://github.com/hfiref0x/UACME

condition: >
sequence
maxspan 2m
|((create_file) or (create_file_supersede)) and
ps.name iin ('wusa.exe', 'dllhost.exe') and
thread.callstack.symbols imatches ('cabinet.dll!FDICopy') and
file.path imatches
(
'?:\\Windows\\System32\\*.dll',
'?:\\Windows\\SysWoW64\\*.dll',
'?:\\Windows\\System32\\*.exe.local\\*.dll',
'?:\\Windows\\SysWoW64\\*.exe.local\\*.dll'
)
|
|spawn_process and
ps.token.integrity_level = 'HIGH' and
ps.exe not imatches
(
'?:\\Windows\\System32\\WerFault.exe',
'?:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\WerFault.exe',
'?:\\Windows\\System32\\wermgr.exe',
'?:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\wermgr.exe',
'?:\\Windows\\System32\\conhost.exe',
'?:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\conhost.exe'
)
|

severity: high

min-engine-version: 3.0.0
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