title: Remote Service Activity via SVCCTL Named Pipe author: Samir Bousseaden date: 2019/04/03 description: Detects remote service activity via remote access to the svcctl named pipe detection: SELECTION_1: EventID: 5145 SELECTION_2: ShareName: \\*\IPC$ SELECTION_3: RelativeTargetName: svcctl SELECTION_4: Accesses: '*WriteData*' condition: (SELECTION_1 and SELECTION_2 and SELECTION_3 and SELECTION_4) falsepositives: - pentesting id: 586a8d6b-6bfe-4ad9-9d78-888cd2fe50c3 level: medium logsource: definition: The advanced audit policy setting "Object Access > Audit Detailed File Share" must be configured for Success/Failure product: windows service: security references: - https://blog.menasec.net/2019/03/threat-hunting-26-remote-windows.html status: experimental tags: - attack.lateral_movement - attack.persistence - attack.t1077 - attack.t1021.002 ruletype: SIGMA