Suspicious Service Binary Directory

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About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Detects a service binary running in a suspicious directory

Severity

Trouble

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND PROCESSNAME contains "\Users\Public\,\$Recycle.bin,\Users\All Users\,\Users\Default\,\Users\Contacts\,\Users\Searches\,C:\Perflogs\,\config\systemprofile\,\Windows\Fonts\,\Windows\IME\,\Windows\addins" AND PARENTPROCESSNAME endswith "\services.exe,\svchost.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

Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)