title: HTML Help Shell Spawn
id: 52cad028-0ff0-4854-8f67-d25dfcbc78b4
status: experimental
description: Detects a suspicious child process of a Microsoft HTML Help system when executing compiled HTML files (.chm)
references:
    - https://www.trustwave.com/en-us/resources/blogs/spiderlabs-blog/chm-badness-delivers-a-banking-trojan/
author: Maxim Pavlunin
date: 2020/04/01
modified: 2020/09/01
tags:
    - attack.defense_evasion
    - attack.t1218.001
    - attack.t1218.010
    - attack.t1218.011
    - attack.execution
    - attack.t1223  # an old one
    - attack.t1059.001
    - attack.t1059.003
    - attack.t1059.005
    - attack.t1059.007
    - attack.t1047
logsource:
    category: process_creation
    product: windows
detection:
    selection:
        ParentImage: 'C:\Windows\hh.exe'
        Image|endswith:
            - '\cmd.exe'
            - '\powershell.exe'
            - '\wscript.exe'
            - '\cscript.exe'
            - '\regsvr32.exe'
            - '\wmic.exe'
            - '\rundll32.exe'
    condition: selection
fields:
    - CommandLine
    - ParentCommandLine
falsepositives:
    - unknown
level: high
