Port Monitors - T1547.010

(ATT&CK® Technique)

Definition

Adversaries may use port monitors to run an adversary supplied DLL during system boot for persistence or privilege escalation. A port monitor can be set through the AddMonitor API call to set a DLL to be loaded at startup. This DLL can be located in C:\Windows\System32 and will be loaded and run by the print spooler service, spoolsv.exe, under SYSTEM level permissions on boot.

D3FEND Inferred Relationships

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        graph LR;

     T1547010["Port Monitors"] --> |modifies| SystemConfigurationDatabaseRecord["System Configuration Database Record"]; class T1547010 OffensiveTechniqueNode;
        class SystemConfigurationDatabaseRecord ArtifactNode; click SystemConfigurationDatabaseRecord href "/dao/artifact/d3f:SystemConfigurationDatabaseRecord";
        click T1547010 href "/offensive-technique/attack/T1547.010/"; click SystemConfigurationDatabaseRecord href "/dao/artifact/d3f:SystemConfigurationDatabaseRecord";              RestoreConfiguration["Restore Configuration"] -->
          | restores | SystemConfigurationDatabaseRecord["System Configuration Database Record"];

          RestoreConfiguration["Restore Configuration"] -.->
            | may-restore | T1547010["Port Monitors"] ;
          class RestoreConfiguration DefensiveTechniqueNode;
          class SystemConfigurationDatabaseRecord ArtifactNode;
          click RestoreConfiguration href "/technique/d3f:RestoreConfiguration";

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