IMPORTANT: No additional bug fixes or documentation updates
will be released for this version. For the latest information, see the
current release documentation.
Suspicious Child Process of Adobe Acrobat Reader Update Service
editSuspicious Child Process of Adobe Acrobat Reader Update Service
editDetects attempts to exploit privilege escalation vulnerabilities related to the Adobe Acrobat Reader PrivilegedHelperTool responsible for installing updates. For more information, refer to CVE-2020-9615, CVE-2020-9614 and CVE-2020-9613 and verify that the impacted system is patched.
Rule type: query
Rule indices:
- auditbeat-*
- 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
- macOS
- Threat Detection
- Privilege Escalation
Version: 1
Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.12.0
Rule authors: Elastic
Rule license: Elastic License v2
Potential false positives
editTrusted system or Adobe Acrobat Related processes.
Rule query
editevent.category:process and event.type:(start or process_started) and process.parent.name:com.adobe.ARMDC.SMJobBlessHelper and user.name:root and not process.executable: (/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.adobe.ARMDC.SMJobBlessHelper or /usr/bin/codesign or /private/var/folders/zz/*/T/download/ARMDCHammer or /usr/sbin/pkgutil or /usr/bin/shasum or /usr/bin/perl* or /usr/sbin/spctl or /usr/sbin/installer)
Threat mapping
editFramework: MITRE ATT&CKTM
-
Tactic:
- Name: Privilege Escalation
- ID: TA0004
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0004/
-
Technique:
- Name: Exploitation for Privilege Escalation
- ID: T1068
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1068/