Detecting T1548 Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism When to Use - When hunting for privilege escalation via UAC bypass in Windows environments - After threat intelligence indicates use of UAC bypass exploits by active threat groups - When investigating how attackers achieved administrative access without triggering UAC prompts - During security assessments to validate UAC bypass detection coverage - When monitoring for setuid/setgid abuse on Linux systems Prerequisites - Sysmon Event ID 1 with command-line and parent process logging - Windows Security Event ID 4688 with process tracking - Regis…