title: Service Disable
description: Detecting the disabling of services through sc.exe, wmic, and powershell Set-Service cmdlet.
author: keyboardcrunch
date: 10/10/2020
modified: null
mitre:
   tactic: Impact
   technique: T1489
   subtechnique: null
operating_system: windows
query: (TgtProcName = "WMIC.exe" AND TgtProcCmdLine ContainsCIS "call ChangeStartmode
  Disabled") OR (TgtProcName = "sc.exe" AND TgtProcCmdLine ContainsCIS "disabled")
  OR (TgtProcCmdLine ContainsCIS "Set-Service" AND TgtProcCmdLine ContainsCIS "-StartupType
  Disabled")
false_positives: Manual service toggling.
tags: null