CAPECattack pattern

CAPEC-579 Replace Winlogon Helper DLL

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Abstraction
Detailed
Status
Draft
CAPEC version
3.9

Description

Winlogon is a part of Windows that performs logon actions. In Windows systems prior to Windows Vista, a registry key can be modified that causes Winlogon to load a DLL on startup. Adversaries may take advantage of this feature to load adversarial code at startup.

Mitigations

• Changes to registry entries in "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Winlogon\Notify" that do not correlate with known software, patch cycles, etc are suspicious. New DLLs written to System32 which do not correlate with known good software or patching may be suspicious.

Related

Att&ck technique · MITRE ATT&CK (1)

  • T1547.004 Winlogon Helper DLL sub-technique

Child of · CAPEC (1)

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-15 External Control of System or Configuration Setting weakness

Referenced by CWE · attack pattern (1)

  • CWE-15 External Control of System or Configuration Setting weakness