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Trusted Developer Application Usage
editTrusted Developer Application Usage
editIdentifies possibly suspicious activity using a trusted Windows developer utility program.
Rule type: query
Rule indices:
- winlogbeat-*
- logs-endpoint.events.*
Severity: low
Risk score: 21
Runs every: 5 minutes
Searches indices from: now-6m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)
Maximum alerts per execution: 100
Tags:
- Elastic
- Host
- Windows
- Threat Detection
- Defense Evasion
Version: 6 (version history)
Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.6.0
Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 7.11.2
Rule authors: Elastic
Rule license: Elastic License
Potential false positives
editThese programs may be used by Windows developers but use by non-engineers is unusual.
Rule query
editevent.category:process and event.type:(start or process_started) and process.name:(MSBuild.exe or msxsl.exe)
Threat mapping
editFramework: MITRE ATT&CKTM
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Tactic:
- Name: Defense Evasion
- ID: TA0005
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0005/
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Technique:
- Name: Trusted Developer Utilities Proxy Execution
- ID: T1127
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1127/
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Tactic:
- Name: Execution
- ID: TA0002
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0002/
Rule version history
edit- Version 6 (7.11.2 release)
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- Formatting only
- Version 5 (7.11.0 release)
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- Formatting only
- Version 4 (7.10.0 release)
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Updated query, changed from:
event.code:1 and process.name:(MSBuild.exe or msxsl.exe)
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- Version 3 (7.9.0 release)
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- Formatting only
- Version 2 (7.7.0 release)
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Updated query, changed from:
event.code:1 and (process.name:MSBuild.exe or process.name:msxsl.exe)
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