Trusted Developer Application Usageedit

Identifies possibly suspicious activity using a trusted Windows developer utility program.

Rule indices:

  • winlogbeat-*

Severity: low

Risk score: 21

Runs every: 5 minutes

Searches indices from: now-6m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum signals per execution: 100

Tags:

  • Elastic
  • Windows

Rule version: 1

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.6.0

Potential false positivesedit

These programs may be used by Windows developers but use by non-engineers is unusual.

Rule queryedit

event.code:1 and (process.name:MSBuild.exe or process.name:msxsl.exe)

Threat mappingedit

Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM