Elastic medium stable eql
Suspicious RDP ActiveX Client Loaded
Identifies suspicious Image Loading of the Remote Desktop Services ActiveX Client (mstscax), this may indicate the presence of RDP lateral movement capability.
Detection Logic
any where host.os.type == "windows" and
(event.category : ("library", "driver") or (event.category == "process" and event.action : "Image loaded*")) and
(?dll.name : "mstscax.dll" or file.name : "mstscax.dll") and
/* depending on noise in your env add here extra paths */
process.executable : (
"C:\\Windows\\*",
"C:\\Users\\Public\\*",
"C:\\Users\\Default\\*",
"C:\\Intel\\*",
"C:\\PerfLogs\\*",
"C:\\ProgramData\\*",
"\\Device\\Mup\\*",
"\\\\*"
) and
/* add here FPs */
not process.executable : (
"?:\\Windows\\System32\\mstsc.exe",
"?:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\mstsc.exe",
"?:\\Windows\\System32\\vmconnect.exe",
"?:\\Windows\\System32\\WindowsSandboxClient.exe",
"?:\\Windows\\System32\\hvsirdpclient.exe"
) Field Validations
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