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Suspicious SolarWinds Child Process

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Suspicious SolarWinds Child Process

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A suspicious SolarWinds child process was detected, which may indicate an attempt to execute malicious programs.

Rule type: eql

Rule indices:

  • winlogbeat-*
  • logs-endpoint.events.*

Severity: medium

Risk score: 47

Runs every: 5 minutes

Searches indices from: now-9m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

Tags:

  • Elastic
  • Host
  • Windows
  • Threat Detection
  • Execution

Version: 2 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.11.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 7.11.2

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License

Potential false positives

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Trusted SolarWinds child processes, verify process details such as network connections and file writes.

Rule query

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process where event.type in ("start", "process_started") and
process.parent.name: ("SolarWinds.BusinessLayerHost.exe",
"SolarWinds.BusinessLayerHostx64.exe") and not process.name : (
"APMServiceControl*.exe", "ExportToPDFCmd*.Exe",
"SolarWinds.Credentials.Orion.WebApi*.exe",
"SolarWinds.Orion.Topology.Calculator*.exe", "Database-
Maint.exe", "SolarWinds.Orion.ApiPoller.Service.exe",
"WerFault.exe", "WerMgr.exe")

Threat mapping

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Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

Rule version history

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Version 2 (7.11.2 release)
  • Formatting only
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