Suspicious parent spawning fontdrvhost

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About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Detects instances where "fontdrvhost.exe" process are not spawned by the legitimate "wininit.exe" or "winlogon.exe" processes

Severity

Critical

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND (PROCESSNAME endswith "fontdrvhost.exe" AND (PARENTPROCESSNAME notendswith "Windows\System32\wininit.exe" AND PARENTPROCESSNAME notendswith "Windows\SysWow64\wininit.exe" AND PARENTPROCESSNAME notendswith "WINNT\system32\wininit.exe" AND PARENTPROCESSNAME notendswith "Windows\System32\winlogon.exe" AND PARENTPROCESSNAME notendswith "Windows\SysWow64\winlogon.exe" AND PARENTPROCESSNAME notendswith "WINNT\system32\winlogon.exe")) select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.COMMANDLINE,Action1.FILE_NAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.USERNAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSNAME

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

Windows