Security Monitoring Forwarded Events: SeDebug Privilege Escalation Detected

Security.Monitoring.ForwardedEvents.DebugEscalation (Rule)

This alert is generated when a process other than WMI assigns itself debug privileges.

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Source Code:

<Rule ID="Security.Monitoring.ForwardedEvents.DebugEscalation" Target="WindowsEventCollectorDiscovery!WindowsEventCollectorDiscovery.EventLogCollectorServer" Enabled="true" ConfirmDelivery="false" Remotable="true" Priority="Normal" DiscardLevel="100">

  <Category>Alert</Category>

  <DataSources>

    <DataSource ID="DS" TypeID="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.EventProvider">

      <ComputerName>$Target/Host/Property[Type="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.Computer"]/NetworkName$</ComputerName>

      <LogName>ForwardedEvents</LogName>

      <AllowProxying>true</AllowProxying>

      <Expression>

        <And>

          <Expression>

            <SimpleExpression>

              <ValueExpression>

                <XPathQuery Type="UnsignedInteger">EventDisplayNumber</XPathQuery>

              </ValueExpression>

              <Operator>Equal</Operator>

              <ValueExpression>

                <Value Type="UnsignedInteger">4703</Value>

              </ValueExpression>

            </SimpleExpression>

          </Expression>

          <Expression>

            <SimpleExpression>

              <ValueExpression>

                <XPathQuery Type="String">Params/Param[11]</XPathQuery>

              </ValueExpression>

              <Operator>Equal</Operator>

              <ValueExpression>

                <Value Type="String">SeDebugPrivilege</Value>

              </ValueExpression>

            </SimpleExpression>

          </Expression>

          <Expression>

            <SimpleExpression>

              <ValueExpression>

                <XPathQuery Type="String">Params/Param[9]</XPathQuery>

              </ValueExpression>

              <Operator>NotEqual</Operator>

              <ValueExpression>

                <Value Type="String">C:\Windows\System32\wbem\WmiPrvSE.exe</Value>

              </ValueExpression>

            </SimpleExpression>

          </Expression>

        </And>

      </Expression>

    </DataSource>

  </DataSources>

  <WriteActions>

    <WriteAction ID="Alert" TypeID="Health!System.Health.GenerateAlert">

      <Priority>1</Priority>

      <Severity>2</Severity>

      <AlertMessageId>$MPElement[Name="Security.Monitoring.ForwardedEvents.DebugEscalation.AlertMessage"]$</AlertMessageId>

      <AlertParameters>

        <AlertParameter1>$Data[Default='']/EventDescription$</AlertParameter1>

      </AlertParameters>

    </WriteAction>

  </WriteActions>

</Rule>