Detectioncriticaltest
Suspicious Child Process Of Veeam Dabatase
Detects suspicious child processes of the Veeam service process. This could indicate potential RCE or SQL Injection.
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Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)Created Thu May 04d55b793d-f847-4eea-b59a-5ab09908ac90windows
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 Logic3 selectors
detection:
selection_parent:
ParentImage|endswith: '\sqlservr.exe'
ParentCommandLine|contains: 'VEEAMSQL'
selection_child_1:
Image|endswith:
- '\cmd.exe'
- '\powershell.exe'
- '\pwsh.exe'
- '\wsl.exe'
- '\wt.exe'
CommandLine|contains:
- '-ex '
- 'bypass'
- 'cscript'
- 'DownloadString'
- 'http://'
- 'https://'
- 'mshta'
- 'regsvr32'
- 'rundll32'
- 'wscript'
- 'copy '
selection_child_2:
Image|endswith:
- '\net.exe'
- '\net1.exe'
- '\netstat.exe'
- '\nltest.exe'
- '\ping.exe'
- '\tasklist.exe'
- '\whoami.exe'
condition: selection_parent and 1 of selection_child_*References
MITRE ATT&CK
Rule Metadata
Rule ID
d55b793d-f847-4eea-b59a-5ab09908ac90
Status
test
Level
critical
Type
Detection
Created
Thu May 04
Path
rules/windows/process_creation/proc_creation_win_mssql_veaam_susp_child_processes.yml
Raw Tags
attack.initial-accessattack.persistenceattack.privilege-escalation