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Execution of Persistent Suspicious Program
Identifies execution of suspicious persistent programs (scripts, rundll32, etc.) by looking at process lineage and command line usage.
Detection Logic
/* userinit followed by explorer followed by early child process of explorer (unlikely to be launched interactively) within 1m */
sequence by host.id, user.name with maxspan=1m
[process where host.os.type == "windows" and event.type == "start" and process.name : "userinit.exe" and process.parent.name : "winlogon.exe"]
[process where host.os.type == "windows" and event.type == "start" and process.name : "explorer.exe"]
[process where host.os.type == "windows" and event.type == "start" and process.parent.name : "explorer.exe" and
/* add suspicious programs here */
process.pe.original_file_name in ("cscript.exe",
"wscript.exe",
"PowerShell.EXE",
"MSHTA.EXE",
"RUNDLL32.EXE",
"REGSVR32.EXE",
"RegAsm.exe",
"MSBuild.exe",
"InstallUtil.exe") and
/* add potential suspicious paths here */
process.args : ("C:\\Users\\*", "C:\\ProgramData\\*", "C:\\Windows\\Temp\\*", "C:\\Windows\\Tasks\\*", "C:\\PerfLogs\\*", "C:\\Intel\\*")
] Field Validations
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