Suspicious Process Parents
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About the rule
Rule Type
Standard
Rule Description
Detects suspicious parent processes that should not have any children or should only have a single possible child program
Severity
Trouble
Rule Requirement
Criteria
Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND PARENTPROCESSNAME endswith "\minesweeper.exe,\winver.exe,\bitsadmin.exe" OR (PARENTPROCESSNAME endswith "\csrss.exe,\certutil.exe,\eventvwr.exe,\calc.exe,\notepad.exe" AND (PROCESSNAME notendswith "\WerFault.exe,\wermgr.exe,\conhost.exe,\mmc.exe,\win32calc.exe,\notepad.exe" AND isExist(PROCESSNAME))) select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.COMMANDLINE,Action1.FILE_NAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.USERNAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSNAME
Detection
Execution Mode
realtime
Log Sources
Windows
Author
Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
