title: Mshta Network Connections
description: Identifies suspicious mshta.exe commands
status: experimental
author: E.M. Anhaus (orignally from Atomic Blue Detections, Endgame), oscd.community
date: 2019/10/24
modified: 2019/11/11
references:
    - https://eqllib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/analytics/6bc283c4-21f2-4aed-a05c-a9a3ffa95dd4.html
    - https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/master/atomics/T1170/T1170.yaml
tags:
    - attack.execution
    - attack.defense_evasion
    - attack.t1170
detection:
    selection:
        Image|endswith: '\mshta.exe'
        CommandLine|contains: 'javascript'
    condition: selection
falsepositives:
    - unknown
level: high
logsource:
    category: process_creation
    product: windows
## todo — add sysmon eid 3 for this rule