Elastic low stable eql
Potential Remote File Execution via MSIEXEC
Identifies the execution of the built-in Windows Installer, msiexec.exe, to install a remote package. Adversaries may abuse msiexec.exe to launch local or network accessible MSI files.
Detection Logic
sequence with maxspan=1m
[process where host.os.type == "windows" and event.action == "start" and
process.name : "msiexec.exe" and process.args : "/V"] by process.entity_id
[network where host.os.type == "windows" and process.name : "msiexec.exe" and
event.action == "connection_attempted"] by process.entity_id
[process where host.os.type == "windows" and event.action == "start" and
process.parent.name : "msiexec.exe" and user.id : ("S-1-5-21-*", "S-1-5-12-1-*") and
not process.executable : ("?:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\msiexec.exe",
"?:\\Windows\\System32\\msiexec.exe",
"?:\\Windows\\System32\\srtasks.exe",
"?:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\srtasks.exe",
"?:\\Windows\\System32\\taskkill.exe",
"?:\\Windows\\Installer\\MSI*.tmp",
"?:\\Program Files\\*.exe",
"?:\\Program Files (x86)\\*.exe",
"?:\\Windows\\System32\\ie4uinit.exe",
"?:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\ie4uinit.exe",
"?:\\Windows\\System32\\sc.exe",
"?:\\Windows\\system32\\Wbem\\mofcomp.exe",
"?:\\Windows\\twain_32\\fjscan32\\SOP\\crtdmprc.exe",
"?:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\taskkill.exe",
"?:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\schtasks.exe",
"?:\\Windows\\system32\\schtasks.exe",
"?:\\Windows\\System32\\sdbinst.exe") and
not (process.code_signature.subject_name == "Citrix Systems, Inc." and process.code_signature.trusted == true) and
not (process.name : ("regsvr32.exe", "powershell.exe", "rundll32.exe", "wscript.exe") and
process.Ext.token.integrity_level_name == "high" and
process.args : ("?:\\Program Files\\*", "?:\\Program Files (x86)\\*")) and
not (process.executable : ("?:\\Program Files\\*.exe", "?:\\Program Files (x86)\\*.exe") and process.code_signature.trusted == true) and
not (process.name : "rundll32.exe" and process.args : "printui.dll,PrintUIEntry")
] by process.parent.entity_id Field Validations
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