Claude 24f816b6a3
Consolidate 22 sibling repos into layered organism structure
Place useful parts of the surrounding repos into sica-fondt by layer, per the
body model (Ada = membrane; brain/endocrine/capabilities/knowledge non-Ada):

- brain/        LLM reasoning + providers (dapr, hermes, MoMoA)
- capabilities/ REPRAG sidecars: hermes tools/skills, dapr tools, parallel
                dispatch, A51 channels, and the OSINT cluster
- knowledge/    LORAG corpus: 754 cyber-skills, agency personas, secure-coding,
                MITRE ATT&CK data
- reference/    defensive threat-reference (C3, shhbruh doc) + AdaYaml parser

License handling: AGPL sources (worldosint, advanced_evolution, mercury,
Reticulum) and GPL DeTTECT are SPEC-only clean-room/port descriptions — no
copyleft code copied. MIT/Apache/data parts copied as working trees.

Safety: shhbruh escape/persistence material and C3 covert-C2 kept as reference
only, not wired into the running organism. See CONSOLIDATION.md.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01UehUqEXXJJCsHoA4voCU5c
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hunting-for-unusual-service-installations Detect suspicious Windows service installations (MITRE ATT&CK T1543.003) by parsing System event logs for Event ID 7045, analyzing service binary paths, and identifying indicators of persistence mechanisms. cybersecurity threat-hunting
threat-hunting
T1543.003
service-installation
persistence
Event-7045
Sysmon
Windows-services
1.0 mahipal Apache-2.0
Platform Hardening
System Configuration Permissions
Restore Object
Restore Database
Asset Inventory
DE.CM-01
DE.AE-02
DE.AE-07
ID.RA-05

Hunting for Unusual Service Installations

Overview

Attackers frequently install malicious Windows services for persistence and privilege escalation (MITRE ATT&CK T1543.003 — Create or Modify System Process: Windows Service). Event ID 7045 in the System event log records every new service installation. This skill parses .evtx log files to extract service installation events, flags suspicious binary paths (temp directories, PowerShell, cmd.exe, encoded commands), and correlates with known attack patterns.

When to Use

  • When investigating security incidents that require hunting for unusual service installations
  • When building detection rules or threat hunting queries for this domain
  • When SOC analysts need structured procedures for this analysis type
  • When validating security monitoring coverage for related attack techniques

Prerequisites

  • Python 3.9+ with python-evtx, lxml
  • Windows System event log (.evtx) files
  • Access to live System event log (optional, for real-time monitoring)
  • Sysmon logs for enhanced process tracking (optional)

Steps

  1. Parse System.evtx for Event ID 7045 (new service installed)
  2. Extract service name, binary path, service type, and account
  3. Flag services with suspicious binary paths (temp dirs, encoded commands)
  4. Detect PowerShell-based service creation patterns
  5. Identify services running as LocalSystem with unusual paths
  6. Cross-reference with known legitimate service baselines
  7. Generate threat hunting report with MITRE ATT&CK T1543.003 mapping

Expected Output

  • JSON report listing all new service installations with risk scores, suspicious indicators, and remediation recommendations
  • Timeline of service installation events with binary path analysis