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Active Rule
Suspicious Process Parents
Target Profile
Splunk
Splunk SPL & tstats data model queries
Format Mode
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Plain SPL queries
Conversion Output
Suspicious Process Parents
Using Splunk · Default · sigma-cli 2.0.2
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BackendSplunkFormatDefaultVersion2.0.2
title: Suspicious Process Parents
id: cbec226f-63d9-4eca-9f52-dfb6652f24df
status: test
description: Detects suspicious parent processes that should not have any children or should only have a single possible child program
references:
- https://twitter.com/x86matthew/status/1505476263464607744?s=12
- https://svch0st.medium.com/stats-from-hunting-cobalt-strike-beacons-c17e56255f9b
author: Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
date: 2022-03-21
modified: 2022-09-08
tags:
- attack.defense-evasion
- attack.t1036
logsource:
category: process_creation
product: windows
detection:
selection:
ParentImage|endswith:
- '\minesweeper.exe'
- '\winver.exe'
- '\bitsadmin.exe'
selection_special:
ParentImage|endswith:
- '\csrss.exe'
- '\certutil.exe'
# - '\schtasks.exe'
- '\eventvwr.exe'
- '\calc.exe'
- '\notepad.exe'
filter_special:
Image|endswith:
- '\WerFault.exe'
- '\wermgr.exe'
- '\conhost.exe' # csrss.exe, certutil.exe
- '\mmc.exe' # eventvwr.exe
- '\win32calc.exe' # calc.exe
- '\notepad.exe'
filter_null:
Image: null
condition: selection or ( selection_special and not 1 of filter_* )
falsepositives:
- Unknown
level: high
CLI command
Copy the exact command to reproduce this translation locally.
sigma convert --without-pipeline -t splunk -f default rules/windows/process_creation/proc_creation_win_susp_parents.yml