Adversaries may try to get information about registered services. Commands that may obtain information about services using operating system utilities are "sc," "tasklist /svc" using [Tasklist](https://attack.mitre.org/software/S0057), and "net start" using [Net](https://attack.mitre.org/software/S0039), but adversaries may also use other tools as well. Adversaries may use the information from [System Service Discovery](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1007) during automated discovery to shape follow-on behaviors, including whether or not the adversary fully infects the target and/or attempts specific actions.
Identify system services.
Upon successful execution, cmd.exe will execute service commands with expected result to stdout.
Supported Platforms: Windows
tasklist.exe
sc query
sc query state= all
Enumerates started system services using net.exe and writes them to a file. This technique has been used by multiple threat actors.
Upon successful execution, net.exe will run from cmd.exe that queries services. Expected output is to a txt file in c:\Windows\Temp\service-list.txt.s
Supported Platforms: Windows
Name | Description | Type | Default Value |
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output_file | Path of file to hold net.exe output | Path | C:\Windows\Temp\service-list.txt |
net.exe start >> #{output_file}
del /f /q /s #{output_file} >nul 2>&1