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ATT&CK techniquePersistencePrivilege Escalation

T1543 Create or Modify System Process

PersistencePrivilege EscalationEnterprise

As of 2026-10-05, T1543 (Create or Modify System Process) appears in 232 tracked threats, first reported 2026-02-02 and most recently 2026-09-19, with linked actors including TeamPCP, APT38, Stardust Chollima; it most often appears alongside T1059 (Command and Scripting Interpreter).

Tracked threats
23297 critical, 121 high, 12 medium
First seen
2026-02-02
Last seen
2026-09-19
Threat actors
69In the threats using it
Detection rules
68Blue tier and above

Data as of:

Activity timeline

T1543 first appeared in tracked threats on and was most recently reported on . The busiest month was 2026-07 with 65 reports, and 232 of the 232 threats were reported in the twelve months to 2026-09.

How adversaries use it

T1543 Create or Modify System Process is catalogued by MITRE ATT&CK under the Persistence and Privilege Escalation tactics in the Enterprise matrix. Threadlinqs maps 232 of 2623 tracked threats (8.8%) to it; by severity that is 97 critical, 121 high, 12 medium.

Threats that use T1543 most often also use T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter (193 threats), T1071 Application Layer Protocol (165 threats), T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information (161 threats), T1082 System Information Discovery (155 threats), T1036 Masquerading (149 threats). These are the techniques an intrusion set tends to chain with it, so they are the natural next places to look when it is observed.

69 tracked threat actors appear in the threats that use T1543; the most frequent are TeamPCP (14), APT38 (7), Stardust Chollima (6), Andariel (5), Lazarus Group (5).

Mitigations

MITRE ATT&CK lists 9 mitigations for T1543.

Data sources

Telemetry that can reveal T1543, per MITRE ATT&CK.

  • Command — Command Execution
  • Container — Container Creation
  • Driver — Driver Load
  • File — File Creation, File Modification
  • Process — OS API Execution, Process Creation
  • Service — Service Creation, Service Modification
  • Windows Registry — Windows Registry Key Creation, Windows Registry Key Modification

Threat actors using it

Tracked threats

The 30 most recent of 232 tracked threats that use T1543.

Detection coverage

Threadlinqs maintains 68 detection rules mapped to T1543 (SPL 21, KQL 22, Sigma 25). Rule content is available to Blue tier accounts and above; this page shows counts only.

68 detection rules (SPL/KQL/Sigma) · Blue and above. Compare plans

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