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High Number of Process and/or Service Terminations

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High Number of Process and/or Service Terminations

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This rule identifies a high number (10) of process terminations (stop, delete, or suspend) from the same host within a short time period.

Rule type: threshold

Rule indices:

winlogbeat-*
logs-endpoint.events.*
logs-windows.*

Severity: medium

Risk score: 47

Runs every: 5m

Searches indices from: now-9m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References: None

Tags:

Elastic
Host
Windows
Threat Detection
Impact

Version: 3

Rule authors:

Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Rule query

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event.category:process and event.type:start and process.name:(net.exe or sc.exe or taskkill.exe) and
 process.args:(stop or pause or delete or "/PID" or "/IM" or "/T" or "/F" or "/t" or "/f" or "/im" or "/pid")

Framework: MITRE ATT&CK^TM

Tactic:
- Name: Impact
- ID: TA0040
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0040/
Technique:
- Name: Service Stop
- ID: T1489
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1489/

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