Suspicious Processes Spawned by WinRM

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About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Detects suspicious processes including shells spawnd from WinRM host process

Severity

Trouble

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND PARENTPROCESSNAME endswith "\wsmprovhost.exe" AND PROCESSNAME endswith "\cmd.exe,\sh.exe,\bash.exe,\powershell.exe,\pwsh.exe,\wsl.exe,\schtasks.exe,\certutil.exe,\whoami.exe,\bitsadmin.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

Andreas Hunkeler (@Karneades), Markus Neis