Suspicious Userinit Child Process

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About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Detects a suspicious child process of userinit

Severity

Trouble

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND PARENTPROCESSNAME endswith "\userinit.exe" AND (COMMANDLINE notcontains "\netlogon" AND (PROCESSNAME notendswith "\explorer.exe" AND ORIGINALFILENAME != "explorer.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), Samir Bousseaden (idea)