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Conhost Spawned By Suspicious Parent Processedit
Detects when the Console Window Host (conhost.exe) process is spawned by a suspicious parent process, which could be indicative of code injection.
Rule type: eql
Rule indices:
- winlogbeat-*
- logs-endpoint.events.*
- logs-windows.*
Severity: high
Risk score: 73
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
- Execution
Version: 4 (version history)
Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.10.0
Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 7.13.0
Rule authors: Elastic
Rule license: Elastic License v2
Rule queryedit
process where event.type in ("start", "process_started") and process.name : "conhost.exe" and process.parent.name : ("svchost.exe", "lsass.exe", "services.exe", "smss.exe", "winlogon.exe", "explorer.exe", "dllhost.exe", "rundll32.exe", "regsvr32.exe", "userinit.exe", "wininit.exe", "spoolsv.exe", "wermgr.exe", "csrss.exe", "ctfmon.exe")
Threat mappingedit
Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM
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Tactic:
- Name: Execution
- ID: TA0002
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0002/
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Technique:
- Name: Command and Scripting Interpreter
- ID: T1059
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1059/
Rule version historyedit
- Version 4 (7.13.0 release)
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Updated query, changed from:
event.category:process and event.type:(start or process_started) and process.name:conhost.exe and process.parent.name:(svchost.exe or lsass.exe or services.exe or smss.exe or winlogon.exe or explorer.exe or dllhost.exe or rundll32.exe or regsvr32.exe or userinit.exe or wininit.exe or spoolsv.exe or wermgr.exe or csrss.exe or ctfmon.exe)
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- Version 3 (7.12.0 release)
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- Formatting only
- Version 2 (7.11.2 release)
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- Formatting only