PersistencewindowsPro

Run and RunOnce keys

The oldest and still the most common autostart location. Trivial to check, trivial for an attacker to use, and worth verifying on every host regardless of how unsophisticated it seems.

What members see here

  • Every path this artifact lives at, and which builds each applies to.
  • What it proves, and what it does not prove, which is the part that matters.
  • How to parse it, and the tooling that reads it correctly.
  • Hunting queries for Splunk, Sentinel and Elastic, with their false-positive notes.