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Suspicious Managed Code Hosting Process

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Suspicious Managed Code Hosting Process

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Identifies a suspicious managed code hosting process which could indicate code injection or other form of suspicious code execution.

Rule type: eql

Rule indices:

  • winlogbeat-*
  • logs-endpoint.events.file-*
  • logs-windows.sysmon_operational-*
  • logs-m365_defender.event-*
  • logs-sentinel_one_cloud_funnel.*
  • endgame-*
  • logs-crowdstrike.fdr*

Severity: high

Risk score: 73

Runs every: 5m

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

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

Tags:

  • Domain: Endpoint
  • OS: Windows
  • Use Case: Threat Detection
  • Tactic: Defense Evasion
  • Data Source: Elastic Defend
  • Data Source: Sysmon
  • Data Source: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
  • Data Source: SentinelOne
  • Data Source: Elastic Endgame
  • Data Source: Crowdstrike

Version: 309

Rule authors:

  • Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Rule query

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file where host.os.type == "windows" and event.type != "deletion" and
  file.name : ("wscript.exe.log",
               "cscript.exe.log",
               "mshta.exe.log",
               "wmic.exe.log",
               "svchost.exe.log",
               "dllhost.exe.log",
               "cmstp.exe.log",
               "regsvr32.exe.log")

Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

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