Azure file_integrity_monitoring

Most credential dumping operations do not require modifying resources that can be detected by this control (i.e. Registry and File system) and therefore its coverage is minimal.

This control can detect account manipulation.

This control can detect peristence via office application startup.

The detection score for this group of sub-techniques is assessed as Minimal due to the accuracy component of the score. The registry keys which are modified as a result of these sub-techniques can change frequently or are too numerous to monitor and therefore can result in significant amount of false positives.

The detection score for this group of sub-techniques is assessed as Minimal due to the accuracy component of the score. The registry keys which are modified as a result of these sub-techniques can change frequently or are too numerous to monitor and therefore can result in significant amount of false positives.

This control can detect abuse of elevation control mechanisms.

Some UAC bypass methods rely on modifying specific, user-accessible Registry settings that can be monitored using this control. Overall, there are numerous other bypass methods that do not result in Registry modification that this control will not be effective in detection resulting in a low detection coverage factor.

Due to low detection coverage, this technique is scored as minimal.

This control can be used to monitor Registry keys related to security software or event logging processes that can detect when an adversary attempts to disable these tools via modifying or deleting Registry keys. A majority of the cited procedure examples for this sub-technique are related to killing security processes rather than modifying the Registry, and therefore the detection coverage for this control is low.

There are numerous ways depending on the operating system that these sub-techniques can be accomplished. Monitoring the Windows Registry is one way depending on the procedure chosen to implement the sub-technique and therefore the overall coverage is low.

There are numerous ways depending on the operating system that these sub-techniques can be accomplished. Monitoring the Windows Registry is one way depending on the procedure chosen to implement the sub-technique and therefore the overall coverage is low.

This control can detect hijacked execution flow.

This control can be used to detect the Windows Security Support Provider (SSP) DLLs variation of this sub-technique by monitoring the Registry keys used to register these DLLs. These keys should change infrequently and therefore false positives should be minimal.

This control can detect when files with two file extensions are created.

This control can detect if files are created or edited where the header and extension do not match.

This control can detect abuse of boot or logon initialization scripts.

This control may detect changes to the Windows registry upon creation or modification of logon scripts. This control at worst scans for changes on an hourly basis.

This control may detect changes to the Windows registry upon creation or modification of logon scripts. This control at worst scans for changes on an hourly basis.

This control may detect changes to the Windows registry upon creation or modification of scheduled tasks. This control may also detect changes to files used by cron or systemd to create/modify scheduled tasks. The specificity of registry keys and files used in creation or modification of these scheduled tasks may reduce the false positive rate. This control at worst scans for changes on an hourly basis.

This control may detect changes to the Windows registry upon creation or modification of scheduled tasks. This control may also detect changes to files used by cron or systemd to create/modify scheduled tasks. The specificity of registry keys and files used in creation or modification of these scheduled tasks may reduce the false positive rate. This control at worst scans for changes on an hourly basis.

This control may detect changes to the Windows registry upon creation or modification of scheduled tasks. This control may also detect changes to files used by cron or systemd to create/modify scheduled tasks. The specificity of registry keys and files used in creation or modification of these scheduled tasks may reduce the false positive rate. This control at worst scans for changes on an hourly basis.

This control may detect changes to the Windows registry upon creation or modification of scheduled tasks. This control may also detect changes to files used by cron or systemd to create/modify scheduled tasks. The specificity of registry keys and files used in creation or modification of these scheduled tasks may reduce the false positive rate. This control at worst scans for changes on an hourly basis.

This control may detect changes to the Windows registry upon creation or modification of scheduled tasks. This control may also detect changes to files used by cron or systemd to create/modify scheduled tasks. The specificity of registry keys and files used in creation or modification of these scheduled tasks may reduce the false positive rate. This control at worst scans for changes on an hourly basis.

This control can detect changes to files associated with this technique.

This control can detect changes to files associated with this technique.

This control can detect changes to files associated with this technique.

This control can detect changes to files associated with this technique.

This control may detect changes to the SSH authorized keys file which may indicate establishment of persistence. This control at worst scans for changes on an hourly basis.

This control may detect changes to the Windows registry to establish persistence with the Office Test sub-technique. The specificity of registry keys involved may reduce the false positive rate. This control at worst scans for changes on an hourly basis.

This control can detect file and directory permissions modification.

This control can detect changes to the permissions of Windows and Linux files and can be used to detect modifications to sensitive directories and files that shouldn't change frequently. This control at worst scans for changes on an hourly basis.

This control can detect changes to the permissions of Windows and Linux files and can be used to detect modifications to sensitive directories and files that shouldn't change frequently. This control at worst scans for changes on an hourly basis.

This control can detect when files associated with the technique are created or modified, such as %windir%\system32\inetsrv\config\applicationhost.config.

This control can detect when files or registry keys associated with this technique are created or modified, such as termsrv.dll and ServiceDll.

This control can detect creation or modification of system-level processes.

This control may detect changes to the Windows registry upon creation or modification of Windows services. This control may also detect changes to files used by systemd to create/modify systemd services. The specificity of registry keys and files used in creation or modification of these scheduled tasks may reduce the false positive rate. This control at worst scans for changes on an hourly basis.

This control may detect changes to the Windows registry upon creation or modification of Windows services. This control may also detect changes to files used by systemd to create/modify systemd services. The specificity of registry keys and files used in creation or modification of these scheduled tasks may reduce the false positive rate. This control at worst scans for changes on an hourly basis.

The detection score for this technique was assessed as Partial because it doesn't detect some of the sub-techniques of this technique such as Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Event Subscription and Trap sub-techniques. Additionally for some sub-techniques, this control can be noisy.

This control may detect changes to the Windows registry or files that indicate event triggered execution. The specificity of registry keys and files used in creation or modification of these scheduled tasks may reduce the false positive rate. This control at worst scans for changes on an hourly basis.

This control may detect changes to the Windows registry or files that indicate event triggered execution. The specificity of registry keys and files used in creation or modification of these scheduled tasks may reduce the false positive rate. This control at worst scans for changes on an hourly basis.

This control may detect changes to the Windows registry or files that indicate event triggered execution. The specificity of registry keys and files used in creation or modification of these scheduled tasks may reduce the false positive rate. This control at worst scans for changes on an hourly basis.

This control may detect changes to the Windows registry or files that indicate event triggered execution. The specificity of registry keys and files used in creation or modification of these scheduled tasks may reduce the false positive rate. This control at worst scans for changes on an hourly basis.

This control may detect changes to the Windows registry or files that indicate event triggered execution. The specificity of registry keys and files used in creation or modification of these scheduled tasks may reduce the false positive rate. This control at worst scans for changes on an hourly basis.

This control may detect changes to the Windows registry or files that indicate event triggered execution. The specificity of registry keys and files used in creation or modification of these scheduled tasks may reduce the false positive rate. This control at worst scans for changes on an hourly basis.

This control may detect changes to the Windows registry or files that indicate event triggered execution. The specificity of registry keys and files used in creation or modification of these scheduled tasks may reduce the false positive rate. This control at worst scans for changes on an hourly basis.

This control may detect changes to the Windows registry or files that indicate event triggered execution. The specificity of registry keys and files used in creation or modification of these scheduled tasks may reduce the false positive rate. This control at worst scans for changes on an hourly basis.

This control may detect changes to the Windows registry or files that indicate event triggered execution. The specificity of registry keys and files used in creation or modification of these scheduled tasks may reduce the false positive rate. This control at worst scans for changes on an hourly basis.

This control can detect event triggered execution via installer packages.

This control can detect event triggered execution via udev rules.

This control can detect boot or logon autostart execution.

This control may detect changes to the Windows registry or files that enable Boot or Logon Autostart Execution. This control at worst scans for changes on an hourly basis.

This control may detect changes to the Windows registry or files that enable Boot or Logon Autostart Execution. This control at worst scans for changes on an hourly basis.

This control may detect changes to the Windows registry or files that enable Boot or Logon Autostart Execution. This control at worst scans for changes on an hourly basis.

This control may detect changes to the Windows registry or files that enable Boot or Logon Autostart Execution. This control at worst scans for changes on an hourly basis.

This control may detect changes to the Windows registry or files that enable Boot or Logon Autostart Execution. This control at worst scans for changes on an hourly basis.

This control may detect changes to the Windows registry or files that enable Boot or Logon Autostart Execution. This control at worst scans for changes on an hourly basis.

This control may detect changes to the Windows registry or files that enable Boot or Logon Autostart Execution. This control at worst scans for changes on an hourly basis.

This control may detect changes to the Windows registry or files that enable Boot or Logon Autostart Execution. This control at worst scans for changes on an hourly basis.

This control may detect changes to the Windows registry or files that enable Boot or Logon Autostart Execution. This control at worst scans for changes on an hourly basis.

This control may detect changes to the Windows registry or files that enable Boot or Logon Autostart Execution. This control at worst scans for changes on an hourly basis.

This control can detect commands or registry key modifications associated with Active Setup such as HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\.

This control may detect changes to the sudoers file which may indicate privilege escalation. This control at worst scans for changes on an hourly basis.

This control can be used to detect a subset of this technique's sub-techniques while minimizing the false positive rate.

This control can detect modifications made to the Registry keys used to register Windows Subject Interface Packages (SIPs). Because this sub-technique can be accomplished without modifying the Registry via DLL Search Order Hijacking, it has been scored as Partial. The related Registry keys should not change often and therefore the false positive rate should be minimal. This control at worst scans for changes on an hourly basis.

This control can be used to detect when the system root certificates has changed by detecting the corresponding Registry or File system modifications that occur as a result. These root certificates should not change often and therefore the false positive rate is minimal. This control at worst scans for changes on an hourly basis.

This control is effective for detecting the Registry and file system artifacts that are generated during the execution of some variations of this technique while minimizing false positives due to the locations being monitored changing infrequently (e.g. /etc/pam.d/).

The Registry key used to register a Password Filter DLL can be monitored for changes using this control providing substantial coverage of this sub-technique. This key should not change often and therefore false positives should be minimal. This control at worst scans for changes on an hourly basis.

The PAM configuration and module paths (/etc/pam.d/) can be monitored for changes using this control. The files in this path should not change often and therefore false positives should be minimal. This control at worst scans for changes on an hourly basis.

This control can monitor for suspicious modification of files associated with hybrid identity authentication processes, such as configuration files.

This control can monitor for creation or changes to registry keys associated with network provider DLL such as HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\\NetworkProvider and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\NetworkProvider\Order.

This control can detect when files are modified related to email rules such as RulesActiveState.plist, SyncedRules.plist, UnsyncedRules.plist, and MessageRules.plist on MacOS.

This control can detect when files are created or modified related to resource forking.

This control can detect when files are created in folders associated with or spoofing that of trusted applications.

This control may detect changes to the ld.so.preload file which may indicate an attempt to hijack execution flow. This sub-technique may also be utilized through an environment variable which this control may not detect. This control at worst scans for changes on an hourly basis.

This control can detect file changes on VMs indicative of Path Interception by PATH Environment Variable.

This control can detect file changes on VMs indicative of Path Interception by Search Order Hijacking.

This control can detect file changes on VMs indicative of Path Interception by Unquoted Path.

This control can detect file changes on VMs indicative of hijacking of the AppDomainManager.

This control can detect scheduled tasks/jobs.