Trusted Developer Application Usageedit

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

Rule type: query

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

Version: 2 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.6.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 7.7.0

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 msxsl.exe)

Threat mappingedit

Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

Rule version historyedit

Version 2 (7.7.0 release)

Updated query, changed from:

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