Potentially Suspicious Child Process Of VsCode
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About the rule
Rule Type
Standard
Rule Description
Detects uncommon or suspicious child processes spawning from a VsCode "code.exe" process. This could indicate an attempt of persistence via VsCode tasks or terminal profiles.
Severity
Trouble
Rule Requirement
Criteria
Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND PARENTPROCESSNAME endswith "\code.exe" AND (PROCESSNAME endswith "\calc.exe,\regsvr32.exe,\rundll32.exe,\cscript.exe,\wscript.exe" OR (PROCESSNAME endswith "\powershell.exe,\pwsh.exe,\cmd.exe" AND COMMANDLINE contains "Invoke-Expressions,IEX,Invoke-Command,ICM,DownloadString,rundll32,regsvr32,wscript,cscript") OR PROCESSNAME contains ":\Users\Public\,:\Windows\Temp\,:\Temp") select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.COMMANDLINE,Action1.FILE_NAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.USERNAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSNAME
Detection
Execution Mode
realtime
Log Sources
Windows
Author
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
