Elastic Security Detection Rules

Privilege Escalation via Rogue Named Pipe Impersonation

Last updated 6 days ago on 2025-02-25
Created 3 years ago on 2021-10-13

About

Identifies a privilege escalation attempt via rogue named pipe impersonation. An adversary may abuse this technique by masquerading as a known named pipe and manipulating a privileged process to connect to it.
Tags
Domain: EndpointOS: WindowsUse Case: Threat DetectionTactic: Privilege EscalationData Source: SysmonLanguage: eql
Severity
high
Risk Score
73
MITRE ATT&CK™

Privilege Escalation (TA0004)(opens in a new tab or window)

↳ Access Token Manipulation (T1134)(opens in a new tab or window)

License
Elastic License v2(opens in a new tab or window)

Definition

Rule Type
Event Correlation Rule
Integration Pack
Prebuilt Security Detection Rules
Index Patterns
winlogbeat-*logs-windows.sysmon_operational-*
Related Integrations

windows(opens in a new tab or window)

Query
file where host.os.type == "windows" and
  event.provider == "Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon" and
  
  /* Named Pipe Creation */
  event.code == "17" and
  
  /* Sysmon truncates the "Pipe" keyword in normal named pipe creation events */
  file.name : "\\*\\Pipe\\*"

Install detection rules in Elastic Security

Detect Privilege Escalation via Rogue Named Pipe Impersonation in the Elastic Security detection engine by installing this rule into your Elastic Stack.

To setup this rule, check out the installation guide for Prebuilt Security Detection Rules(opens in a new tab or window).