CAPECattack pattern
CAPEC-579 Replace Winlogon Helper DLL
- 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)
- CAPEC-542 Targeted Malware attack pattern
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