Suspicious WerFault Child Processedit

A suspicious WerFault child process was detected, which may indicate an attempt to run unnoticed. Verify process details such as command line, network connections, file writes and parent process details as well.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

  • winlogbeat-*
  • logs-endpoint.events.*

Severity: medium

Risk score: 47

Runs every: 5 minutes

Searches indices from: now-9m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

Tags:

  • Elastic
  • Host
  • Windows
  • Threat Detection
  • Defense Evasion

Version: 1

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.10.0

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License

Potential false positivesedit

Custom Windows Error Reporting Debugger

Rule queryedit

event.category:process and event.type:(start or process_started) and
process.parent.name:WerFault.exe and not process.name:(cofire.exe or
psr.exe or VsJITDebugger.exe or TTTracer.exe or rundll32.exe)

Threat mappingedit

Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM