Suspicious parent spawning winrshost

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Applies to: Log360Log360 Cloud

About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Detects instances where the "winrshost.exe" is running, and not initiated by the expected "svchost.exe" parent process

Severity

Critical

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND ((PROCESSNAME endswith "Windows\System32\winrshost.exe" OR PROCESSNAME endswith "Windows\SysWow64\winrshost.exe" OR PROCESSNAME endswith "WINNT\system32\winrshost.exe") AND (PARENTPROCESSNAME notendswith "Windows\System32\svchost.exe" AND PARENTPROCESSNAME notendswith "Windows\SysWow64\svchost.exe" AND PARENTPROCESSNAME notendswith "WINNT\system32\svchost.exe")) select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.COMMANDLINE,Action1.FILE_NAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.USERNAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSNAME,Action1.DOMAIN,Action1.ORIGINALFILENAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSID,Action1.PROCESSID,Action1.PRODUCT_NAME,Action1.SECURITYID

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

Windows