Detectionmediumtest

Potential Provlaunch.EXE Binary Proxy Execution Abuse

Detects child processes of "provlaunch.exe" which might indicate potential abuse to proxy execution.

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Launch
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems), Swachchhanda Shrawan PoudelCreated Tue Aug 087f5d1c9a-3e83-48df-95a7-2b98aae6c13cwindows
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 Logic2 selectors
detection:
    selection:
        ParentImage|endswith: '\provlaunch.exe'
    filter_main_covered_children:
        # Note: this filter is here to avoid duplicate alerting by f9999590-1f94-4a34-a91e-951e47bedefd
        - Image|endswith:
              - '\calc.exe'
              - '\cmd.exe'
              - '\cscript.exe'
              - '\mshta.exe'
              - '\notepad.exe'
              - '\powershell.exe'
              - '\pwsh.exe'
              - '\regsvr32.exe'
              - '\rundll32.exe'
              - '\wscript.exe'
        - Image|contains:
              - ':\PerfLogs\'
              - ':\Temp\'
              - ':\Users\Public\'
              - '\AppData\Temp\'
              - '\Windows\System32\Tasks\'
              - '\Windows\Tasks\'
              - '\Windows\Temp\'
    condition: selection and not 1 of filter_main_*
False Positives
Unknown

False positive likelihood has not been assessed. Additional context may be needed during triage.