Applied Cybernetics Group
T1547 — Boot or Logon Autostart Execution
- Technique
T1547- Tactics
- Persistence, Privilege Escalation
- MISP citations
- 0
- KEV CVEs mapped
- 1
- Community rules
- 7
- thrunt rules
- 0
- Upstream
- https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1547
MITRE description
Adversaries may configure system settings to automatically execute a program during system boot or logon to maintain persistence or gain higher-level privileges on compromised systems. Operating systems may have mechanisms for automatically running a program on system boot or account logon.(Citation: Microsoft Run Key)(Citation: MSDN Authentication Packages)(Citation: Microsoft TimeProvider)(Citation: Cylance Reg Persistence Sept 2013)(Citation: Linux Kernel Programming) These mechanisms may include automatically executing programs that are placed in specially designated directories or are referenced by repositories that store configuration information, such as the Windows Registry. An adversary may achieve the same goal by modifying or extending features of the kernel. Since some boot or logon autostart programs run with higher privileges, an adversary may leverage these to elevate privileges.
KEV CVEs mapped to this technique
Per MITRE CTID's hand-curated KEV→ATT&CK mappings — these are the actively-exploited vulnerabilities behind this technique's KEV signal.
Detection coverage
SigmaHQ community rules
- Startup/Logon Script Added to Group Policy Object (core)
- Potential RipZip Attack on Startup Folder (core)
- Suspicious Driver Install by pnputil.exe (core)
- Suspicious GrpConv Execution (core)
- Registry Persistence Mechanisms in Recycle Bin (core)
- WINEKEY Registry Modification (core)
- Atbroker Registry Change (core)