title: New Service Creation
id: 7fe71fc9-de3b-432a-8d57-8c809efc10ab
status: experimental
description: Detects creation of a new service.
author: Timur Zinniatullin, Daniil Yugoslavskiy, oscd.community
date: 2019/10/21
modified: 2019/11/04
tags:
    - attack.persistence
    - attack.privilege_escalation
    - attack.t1050          # an old one
    - attack.t1543.003
references:
    - https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/master/atomics/T1543.003/T1543.003.md
logsource:
    category: process_creation
    product: windows
detection:
    selection:
        - Image|endswith: '\sc.exe'
          CommandLine|contains|all:
            - 'create'
            - 'binpath'
        - Image|endswith: '\powershell.exe'
          CommandLine|contains: 'new-service'
    condition: selection
falsepositives:
    - Legitimate administrator or user creates a service for legitimate reasons.
level: low