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Suspicious Child Process of SAP NetWeaver

Detects suspicious child processes spawned by SAP NetWeaver that could indicate potential exploitation of vulnerability that allows arbitrary execution via webshells such as CVE-2025-31324.

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Elastic Security, Swachchhanda Shrawan Poudel (Nextron Systems)Created Mon Apr 285b304bcb-ac33-49d0-87af-fa1b3ca943332025

Emerging Threat

Active Threat

Developed to detect an active or emerging threat. Prioritize investigation of any alerts and correlate with threat intelligence.

Log Source

WindowsProcess Creation

ProductWindows← raw: windows

CategoryProcess Creation← raw: process_creation

Events generated when a new process is spawned on the system. Covers command-line arguments, parent/child relationships, and process metadata.

Detection Logic

detection:
    selection_parent_img:
        ParentImage|contains:
            - '\j2ee\cluster\apps\sap.com\irj\servlet_jsp\irj\work'
            - '\j2ee\cluster\apps\sap.com\irj\servlet_jsp\irj\root'
    selection_current_dict:
        CurrentDirectory|contains:
            - '\j2ee\cluster\apps\sap.com\irj\servlet_jsp\irj\work'
            - '\j2ee\cluster\apps\sap.com\irj\servlet_jsp\irj\root'
    selection_child:
        Image|endswith:
            - '\cmd.exe'
            - '\powershell.exe'
            - '\powershell_ise.exe'
            - '\pwsh.exe'
            - '\wscript.exe'
            - '\cscript.exe'
            - '\regsvr32.exe'
            - '\rundll32.exe'
            - '\mshta.exe'
            - '\certutil.exe'
            - '\bitsadmin.exe'
            - '\python.exe'
    condition: (selection_parent_img or selection_current_dict) and selection_child