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Suspicious Execution - Short Program Name
editSuspicious Execution - Short Program Name
editIdentifies process execution with a single character process name. This is often done by adversaries while staging or executing temporary utilities.
Rule type: eql
Rule indices:
- winlogbeat-*
- logs-endpoint.events.*
Severity: medium
Risk score: 47
Runs every: 5 minutes
Searches indices from: now-9m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time
)
Maximum alerts per execution: 100
Tags:
- Elastic
- Host
- Windows
- Threat Detection
- Execution
Version: 2 (version history)
Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.11.0
Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 7.11.2
Rule authors: Elastic
Rule license: Elastic License
Rule query
editprocess where event.type in ("start", "process_started") and length(process.name) > 0 and length(process.name) == 5 and host.os.name == "Windows" and length(process.pe.original_file_name) > 5
Rule version history
edit- Version 2 (7.11.2 release)
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- Formatting only