{'created': '2020-01-24T14:47:41.795Z',
 'created_by_ref': 'identity--c78cb6e5-0c4b-4611-8297-d1b8b55e40b5',
 'description': 'Adversaries may establish persistence and/or elevate '
                'privileges by executing malicious content triggered by '
                'AppCert DLLs loaded into processes. Dynamic-link libraries '
                '(DLLs) that are specified in the <code>AppCertDLLs</code> '
                'Registry key under '
                '<code>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\System\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Session '
                'Manager\\</code> are loaded into every process that calls the '
                'ubiquitously used application programming interface (API) '
                'functions <code>CreateProcess</code>, '
                '<code>CreateProcessAsUser</code>, '
                '<code>CreateProcessWithLoginW</code>, '
                '<code>CreateProcessWithTokenW</code>, or '
                '<code>WinExec</code>. (Citation: Elastic Process Injection '
                'July 2017)\n'
                '\n'
                'Similar to [Process '
                'Injection](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1055), this '
                'value can be abused to obtain elevated privileges by causing '
                'a malicious DLL to be loaded and run in the context of '
                'separate processes on the computer. Malicious AppCert DLLs '
                'may also provide persistence by continuously being triggered '
                'by API activity. ',
 'external_references': [{'external_id': 'T1546.009',
                          'source_name': 'mitre-attack',
                          'url': 'https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1546/009'},
                         {'description': 'Hosseini, A. (2017, July 18). Ten '
                                         'Process Injection Techniques: A '
                                         'Technical Survey Of Common And '
                                         'Trending Process Injection '
                                         'Techniques. Retrieved December 7, '
                                         '2017.',
                          'source_name': 'Elastic Process Injection July 2017',
                          'url': 'https://www.endgame.com/blog/technical-blog/ten-process-injection-techniques-technical-survey-common-and-trending-process'},
                         {'description': 'Microsoft. (2007, October 24). '
                                         'Windows Sysinternals - AppCertDlls. '
                                         'Retrieved November 17, 2024.',
                          'source_name': 'Sysinternals AppCertDlls Oct 2007',
                          'url': 'https://web.archive.org/web/20130401232752/https://forum.sysinternals.com/appcertdlls_topic12546.html'},
                         {'description': 'Russinovich, M. (2016, January 4). '
                                         'Autoruns for Windows v13.51. '
                                         'Retrieved June 6, 2016.',
                          'source_name': 'TechNet Autoruns',
                          'url': 'https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902'}],
 'id': 'attack-pattern--7d57b371-10c2-45e5-b3cc-83a8fb380e4c',
 'kill_chain_phases': [{'kill_chain_name': 'mitre-attack',
                        'phase_name': 'privilege-escalation'},
                       {'kill_chain_name': 'mitre-attack',
                        'phase_name': 'persistence'}],
 'modified': '2025-10-24T17:49:00.663Z',
 'name': 'AppCert DLLs',
 'object_marking_refs': ['marking-definition--fa42a846-8d90-4e51-bc29-71d5b4802168'],
 'revoked': False,
 'spec_version': '2.1',
 'type': 'attack-pattern',
 'x_mitre_attack_spec_version': '3.2.0',
 'x_mitre_deprecated': False,
 'x_mitre_detection': '',
 'x_mitre_domains': ['enterprise-attack'],
 'x_mitre_is_subtechnique': True,
 'x_mitre_modified_by_ref': 'identity--c78cb6e5-0c4b-4611-8297-d1b8b55e40b5',
 'x_mitre_platforms': ['Windows'],
 'x_mitre_version': '1.1'}