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Active Rule

Add Debugger Entry To AeDebug For Persistence

Target Profile

Splunk

Splunk SPL & tstats data model queries

Format Mode

Default

Plain SPL queries

Conversion Output

Add Debugger Entry To AeDebug For Persistence

Using Splunk · Default · sigma-cli 2.0.2

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BackendSplunkFormatDefaultVersion2.0.2
title: Add Debugger Entry To AeDebug For Persistence
id: 092af964-4233-4373-b4ba-d86ea2890288
status: test
description: Detects when an attacker adds a new "Debugger" value to the "AeDebug" key in order to achieve persistence which will get invoked when an application crashes
references:
    - https://persistence-info.github.io/Data/aedebug.html
    - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/debug/configuring-automatic-debugging
author: Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
date: 2022-07-21
modified: 2023-08-17
tags:
    - attack.persistence
logsource:
    category: registry_set
    product: windows
detection:
    selection:
        TargetObject|contains: '\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug\Debugger'
        Details|endswith: '.dll'
    filter:
        Details: '"C:\WINDOWS\system32\vsjitdebugger.exe" -p %ld -e %ld -j 0x%p'
    condition: selection and not filter
falsepositives:
    - Legitimate use of the key to setup a debugger. Which is often the case on developers machines
level: medium

CLI command

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sigma convert --without-pipeline -t splunk -f default rules/windows/registry/registry_set/registry_set_aedebug_persistence.yml