Unusual Process Network Connectionedit

Identifies network activity from unexpected system applications. This may indicate adversarial activity as these applications are often leveraged by adversaries to execute code and evade detection.

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

Rule queryedit

event.action:"Network connection detected (rule: NetworkConnect)" and
process.name:(Microsoft.Workflow.Compiler.exe or bginfo.exe or cdb.exe
or cmstp.exe or csi.exe or dnx.exe or fsi.exe or ieexec.exe or
iexpress.exe or odbcconf.exe or rcsi.exe or xwizard.exe)

Threat mappingedit

Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

Rule version historyedit

Version 2 (7.7.0 release)

Updated query, changed from:

event.action:"Network connection detected (rule: NetworkConnect)" and
process.name:(bginfo.exe or cdb.exe or cmstp.exe or csi.exe or dnx.exe
or fsi.exe or ieexec.exe or iexpress.exe or
Microsoft.Workflow.Compiler.exe or odbcconf.exe or rcsi.exe or
xwizard.exe)