conhost Spawning Suspicious Child
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About the rule
Rule Type
Standard
Rule Description
Detects instances where the parent process "conhost.exe" is running, and the child process is not "mscorsvw.exe", "wermgr.exe", "WerFault.exe", or "WerFaultSecure.exe"
Severity
Critical
Rule Requirement
Criteria
Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND ((PARENTPROCESSNAME endswith "Windows\System32\conhost.exe" OR PARENTPROCESSNAME endswith "Windows\SysWow64\conhost.exe" OR PARENTPROCESSNAME endswith "WINNT\system32\conhost.exe") AND (PROCESSNAME notendswith "mscorsvw.exe" AND PROCESSNAME notendswith "wermgr.exe" AND PROCESSNAME notendswith "WerFault.exe" AND PROCESSNAME notendswith "WerFaultSecure.exe")) select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.COMMANDLINE,Action1.FILE_NAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.USERNAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSNAME
Detection
Execution Mode
realtime
Log Sources
Windows
