MMC20 Lateral Movement
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About the rule
Rule Type
Standard
Rule Description
Detects MMC20.Application Lateral Movement; specifically looks for the spawning of the parent MMC.exe with a command line of "-Embedding" as a child of svchost.exe
Severity
Trouble
Rule Requirement
Criteria
Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND PARENTPROCESSNAME endswith "\svchost.exe" AND PROCESSNAME endswith "\mmc.exe" AND COMMANDLINE contains "-Embedding" select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.COMMANDLINE,Action1.FILE_NAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.USERNAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSNAME
Detection
Execution Mode
realtime
Log Sources
Windows
Author
@2xxeformyshirt (Security Risk Advisors) - rule; Teymur Kheirkhabarov (idea)
