Mask System Power Settings Via Systemctl

Milad Cheraghi, Nasreddine Bencherchali

Detects the use of systemctl mask to disable system power management targets such as suspend, hibernate, or hybrid sleep. Adversaries may mask these targets to prevent a system from entering sleep or shutdown states, ensuring their malicious processes remain active and uninterrupted. This behavior can be associated with persistence or defense evasion, as it impairs normal system power operations to maintain long-term access or avoid termination of malicious activity.

2025-10-17 00:00:00

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attack.persistence attack.impact attack.t1653

Community Rule

Milad Cheraghi

Merge PR #5090 from @CheraghiMilad - add rule for impair system power settings

2025-10-20