Diskshadow Child Process Spawned

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About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Detects any child process spawning from "Diskshadow.exe". This could be due to executing Diskshadow in interpreter mode or script mode and using the "exec" flag to launch other applications.

Severity

Trouble

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND PARENTPROCESSNAME endswith "\diskshadow.exe" AND PROCESSNAME notendswith ":\Windows\System32\WerFault.exe" select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.COMMANDLINE,Action1.FILE_NAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.USERNAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSNAME

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

Windows

Author

Harjot Singh @cyb3rjy0t