win:system
Windows System event log
Channel: System
- Host type
- Windows (workstation, member server, domain controller)
- Cost class
- Included
- Techniques
- 39
- Rules listed
- 97
- Events
- 73
Licensing
- License or service
- Windows OS
- What is free
- Always on
- What costs
- Nothing
- Notes
- Built-in channels
- As read on
- 2026-11-01
A vendor statement as read on the date shown; the cost class is the durable part.
Techniques
- T1011 Exfiltration Over Other Network Medium
- T1011.001 Exfiltration Over Bluetooth
- T1014 Rootkit
- T1025 Data from Removable Media
- T1029 Scheduled Transfer
- T1036 Masquerading
- T1036.004 Masquerade Task or Service
- T1037.001 Logon Script (Windows)
- T1037.003 Network Logon Script
- T1040 Network Sniffing
- T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
- T1052.001 Exfiltration over USB
- T1056.001 Keylogging
- T1091 Replication Through Removable Media
- T1092 Communication Through Removable Media
- T1195.003 Compromise Hardware Supply Chain
- T1197 BITS Jobs
- T1200 Hardware Additions
- T1205.002 Socket Filters
- T1210 Exploitation of Remote Services
- T1219 Remote Access Tools
- T1219.003 Remote Access Hardware
- T1489 Service Stop
- T1490 Inhibit System Recovery
- T1499 Endpoint Denial of Service
- T1499.004 Application or System Exploitation
- T1505.004 IIS Components
- T1556.001 Domain Controller Authentication
- T1557.003 DHCP Spoofing
- T1563.002 RDP Hijacking
- T1564.006 Run Virtual Instance
- T1574.010 Services File Permissions Weakness
- T1574.011 Services Registry Permissions Weakness
- T1674 Input Injection
- T1685 Disable or Modify Tools
- T1685.001 Disable or Modify Windows Event Log
- T1685.003 Modify or Spoof Tool UI
- T1686.003 Windows Host Firewall
- T1687 Exploitation for Defense Impairment
Rules
Splunk 20
- Clop Ransomware Known Service Name
- First Time Seen Running Windows Service
- Malicious Powershell Executed As A Service
- Randomly Generated Windows Service Name
- Short Lived Windows Accounts
- Windows Bluetooth Service Installed From Uncommon Location
- Windows Cisco Secure Endpoint Related Service Stopped
- Windows Driver Load Non-Standard Path
- Windows Event For Service Disabled
- Windows Event Log Cleared
- Windows Excessive Disabled Services Event
- Windows KrbRelayUp Service Creation
- Windows Security And Backup Services Stop
- Windows Service Create RemComSvc
- Windows Service Create SliverC2
- Windows Service Created with Suspicious Service Name
- Windows Service Created with Suspicious Service Path
- Windows Service Stop Win Updates
- Windows Snake Malware Service Create
- Windows Vulnerable Driver Installed
Sigma 74
- Active Directory Certificate Services Denied Certificate Enrollment Request by @SerkinValery
- Anydesk Remote Access Software Service Installation by Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems), Swachchhanda Shrawan Poudel (Nextron Systems)
- COLDSTEEL Persistence Service Creation by Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
- CSExec Service Installation by Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
- Certificate Use With No Strong Mapping by @br4dy5
- CobaltStrike Service Installations - System by Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), Wojciech Lesicki
- Crash Dump Created By Operating System by Jason Mull
- Credential Dumping Tools Service Execution - System by Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), Teymur Kheirkhabarov, Daniil Yugoslavskiy, oscd.community
- Critical Hive In Suspicious Location Access Bits Cleared by Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
- DHCP Server Error Failed Loading the CallOut DLL by Dimitrios Slamaris, @atc_project (fix)
- DHCP Server Loaded the CallOut DLL by Dimitrios Slamaris
- Eventlog Cleared by Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
- Goofy Guineapig Backdoor Service Creation by Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
- HackTool Service Registration or Execution by Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
- ISATAP Router Address Was Set by hamid
- Important Windows Eventlog Cleared by Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), Tim Shelton, Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
- Important Windows Service Terminated Unexpectedly by Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
- Important Windows Service Terminated With Error by Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
- Invoke-Obfuscation CLIP+ Launcher - System by Jonathan Cheong, oscd.community
- Invoke-Obfuscation COMPRESS OBFUSCATION - System by Timur Zinniatullin, oscd.community
- Invoke-Obfuscation Obfuscated IEX Invocation - System by Daniel Bohannon (@Mandiant/@FireEye), oscd.community
- Invoke-Obfuscation RUNDLL LAUNCHER - System by Timur Zinniatullin, oscd.community
- Invoke-Obfuscation STDIN+ Launcher - System by Jonathan Cheong, oscd.community
- Invoke-Obfuscation VAR+ Launcher - System by Jonathan Cheong, oscd.community
- Invoke-Obfuscation VAR++ LAUNCHER OBFUSCATION - System by Timur Zinniatullin, oscd.community
- Invoke-Obfuscation Via Stdin - System by Nikita Nazarov, oscd.community
- Invoke-Obfuscation Via Use Clip - System by Nikita Nazarov, oscd.community
- Invoke-Obfuscation Via Use MSHTA - System by Nikita Nazarov, oscd.community
- Invoke-Obfuscation Via Use Rundll32 - System by Nikita Nazarov, oscd.community
- KrbRelayUp Service Installation by Sittikorn S, Tim Shelton
- Local Privilege Escalation Indicator TabTip by Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
- Mesh Agent Service Installation by Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
- Meterpreter or Cobalt Strike Getsystem Service Installation - System by Teymur Kheirkhabarov, Ecco, Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
- Moriya Rootkit - System by Bhabesh Raj
- NTFS Vulnerability Exploitation by Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
- NTLMv1 Logon Between Client and Server by Tim Shelton, Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
- NetSupport Manager Service Install by Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
- New PDQDeploy Service - Client Side by Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
- New PDQDeploy Service - Server Side by Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
- No Suitable Encryption Key Found For Generating Kerberos Ticket by @SerkinValery
- OilRig APT Schedule Task Persistence - System by Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), Markus Neis, Jonhnathan Ribeiro, Daniil Yugoslavskiy, oscd.community
- PAExec Service Installation by Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
- Potential CVE-2021-42278 Exploitation Attempt by frack113
- Potential CVE-2021-42287 Exploitation Attempt by frack113
- Potential KDC RC4-HMAC Downgrade Exploit - CVE-2022-37966 by Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
- Potential RDP Exploit CVE-2019-0708 by Lionel PRAT, Christophe BROCAS, @atc_project (improvements)
- PowerShell Scripts Installed as Services by oscd.community, Natalia Shornikova
- ProcessHacker Privilege Elevation by Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
- PsExec Service Installation by Thomas Patzke
- RTCore Suspicious Service Installation by Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
- RemCom Service Installation by Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
- Remote Access Tool Services Have Been Installed - System by Connor Martin, Nasreddine Bencherchali
- Remote Utilities Host Service Install by Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
- SNAKE Malware Service Persistence by Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
- Service Installation in Suspicious Folder by pH-T (Nextron Systems)
- Service Installation with Suspicious Folder Pattern by pH-T (Nextron Systems)
- Service Installed By Unusual Client - System by Tim Rauch (Nextron Systems), Elastic (idea)
- Sliver C2 Default Service Installation by Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
- StoneDrill Service Install by Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
- Suspicious Service Installation by pH-T (Nextron Systems), Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
- Suspicious Service Installation Script by pH-T (Nextron Systems)
- Sysmon Application Crashed by Tim Shelton
- TacticalRMM Service Installation by Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
- Tap Driver Installation by Daniil Yugoslavskiy, Ian Davis, oscd.community
- Turla PNG Dropper Service by Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
- Turla Service Install by Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
- Uncommon Service Installation Image Path by Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
- Volume Shadow Copy Mount by Roberto Rodriguez @Cyb3rWard0g, Open Threat Research (OTR)
- Vulnerable Netlogon Secure Channel Connection Allowed by NVISO
- Windows Defender Threat Detection Service Disabled by Ján Trenčanský, frack113
- Windows Service Terminated With Error by Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
- Windows Update Error by frack113
- Zerologon Exploitation Using Well-known Tools by Demyan Sokolin @_drd0c, Teymur Kheirkhabarov @HeirhabarovT, oscd.community
- smbexec.py Service Installation by Omer Faruk Celik
Microsoft Sentinel 1
Events
Minimum (3)
Recommended (37)
- 1System Time Changed
- 1000
- 10001
- 1001BSOD
- 1006
- 1020
- 104Event Log was Cleared
- 106
- 1063
- 1074Shutdown Initiate Failed
- 1125Internal Error
- 1126Generic Internal Error
- 1129Group Policy Application Failed due to Connectivity
- 12Windows Startup
- 13Windows Shutdown
- 1341
- 1342
- 1502
- 1503
- 19Windows Update Installed
- 200
- 2003
- 219Failed Kernel Driver Loading
- 4016
- 5005
- 5312
- 6New Kernel Filter Driver
- 7000Service Start Failure
- 7022Windows Service Fails or Crashes
- 7023Windows Service Fails or Crashes
- 7024Windows Service Fails or Crashes
- 7026Windows Service Fails or Crashes
- 7032Windows Service Fails or Crashes
- 7035
- 7036
- 7040
- 8001