Potential Fake Instance Of Hxtsr.EXE Executed
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About the rule
Rule Type
Standard
Rule Description
HxTsr.exe is a Microsoft compressed executable file called Microsoft Outlook Communications. HxTsr.exe is part of Outlook apps, because it resides in a hidden "WindowsApps" subfolder of "C:\\Program Files". Any instances of hxtsr.exe not in this folder may be malware camouflaging itself as HxTsr.exe
Severity
Trouble
Rule Requirement
Criteria
Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND PROCESSNAME endswith "\hxtsr.exe" AND (PROCESSNAME notcontains ":\program files\windowsapps\microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps_" OR PROCESSNAME notendswith "\hxtsr.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
Sreeman
