Potentially Suspicious Execution Of PDQDeployRunner

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Applies to: Log360Log360 Cloud

About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Detects suspicious execution of "PDQDeployRunner" which is part of the PDQDeploy service stack that is responsible for executing commands and packages on a remote machines

Severity

Trouble

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND PARENTPROCESSNAME contains "\PDQDeployRunner-" AND (PROCESSNAME endswith "\bash.exe,\certutil.exe,\cmd.exe,\csc.exe,\cscript.exe,\dllhost.exe,\mshta.exe,\msiexec.exe,\regsvr32.exe,\rundll32.exe,\scriptrunner.exe,\wmic.exe,\wscript.exe,\wsl.exe" OR PROCESSNAME contains ":\ProgramData\,:\Users\Public\,:\Windows\TEMP\,\AppData\Local\Temp" OR COMMANDLINE contains " -decode , -enc , -encodedcommand , -w hidden,DownloadString,FromBase64String,http,iex ,Invoke-") select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.COMMANDLINE,Action1.FILE_NAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.USERNAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSNAME,Action1.DOMAIN,Action1.ORIGINALFILENAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSID,Action1.PROCESSID,Action1.PRODUCT_NAME,Action1.SECURITYID

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

Windows

Author

Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)