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Conhost Spawned By Suspicious Parent Process
editConhost Spawned By Suspicious Parent Process
editDetects when the Console Window Host (conhost.exe) process is spawned by a suspicious parent process, which could be indicative of code injection.
Rule type: query
Rule indices:
- winlogbeat-*
- logs-endpoint.events.*
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: 1
Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.10.0
Rule authors: Elastic
Rule license: Elastic License
Rule query
editevent.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)
Threat mapping
editFramework: MITRE ATT&CKTM
-
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/