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Suspicious Endpoint Security Parent Process

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Suspicious Endpoint Security Parent Process

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A suspicious Endpoint Security parent process was detected. This may indicate a process hollowing or other form of code injection.

Rule type: eql

Rule indices:

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

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

Tags:

  • Elastic
  • Host
  • Windows
  • Threat Detection
  • Defense Evasion
  • Elastic Endgame

Version: 102 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.10.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 8.6.0

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Investigation guide

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Rule query
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process where event.type == "start" and process.name :
("esensor.exe", "elastic-endpoint.exe") and process.parent.executable
!= null and /* add FPs here */ not process.parent.executable :
("C:\\Program Files\\Elastic\\*",
"C:\\Windows\\System32\\services.exe",
"C:\\Windows\\System32\\WerFault*.exe",
"C:\\Windows\\System32\\wermgr.exe")











Threat mapping
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Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM














Rule version history
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Version 102 (8.6.0 release)








    

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Version 101 (8.5.0 release)








    

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    Updated query, changed from:
    

    

    

    process where event.type in ("start", "process_started", "info") and
process.name : ("esensor.exe", "elastic-endpoint.exe") and
process.parent.executable != null and /* add FPs here */ not
process.parent.executable : ("C:\\Program Files\\Elastic\\*",
"C:\\Windows\\System32\\services.exe",
"C:\\Windows\\System32\\WerFault*.exe",
"C:\\Windows\\System32\\wermgr.exe")
    

    

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Version 7 (8.4.0 release)








    

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    Updated query, changed from:
    

    

    

    process where event.type in ("start", "process_started", "info") and
process.name : ("esensor.exe", "elastic-endpoint.exe") and
process.parent.executable != null and /* add FPs here */ not
process.parent.executable : ("C:\\Program Files\\Elastic\\*",
"C:\\Windows\\System32\\services.exe",
"C:\\Windows\\System32\\WerFault*.exe",
"C:\\Windows\\System32\\wermgr.exe")
    

    

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Version 5 (8.2.0 release)








    

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Version 4 (7.12.0 release)








    

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Version 3 (7.11.2 release)








    

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Version 2 (7.11.0 release)








    

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    Updated query, changed from:
    

    

    

    event.category:process and event.type:(start or process_started) and
process.name:(esensor.exe or "elastic-endpoint.exe" or "elastic-
agent.exe") and not
process.parent.executable:"C:\Windows\System32\services.exe"
    

    

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