Script Event Consumer Spawning Process

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About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Detects a suspicious child process of Script Event Consumer (scrcons.exe).

Severity

Trouble

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND PARENTPROCESSNAME endswith "\scrcons.exe" AND PROCESSNAME endswith "\svchost.exe,\dllhost.exe,\powershell.exe,\pwsh.exe,\wscript.exe,\cscript.exe,\schtasks.exe,\regsvr32.exe,\mshta.exe,\rundll32.exe,\msiexec.exe,\msbuild.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

Sittikorn S