[metadata] creation_date = "2020/08/21" maturity = "production" updated_date = "2022/03/31" [rule] author = ["Elastic"] description = """ Identifies a suspicious managed code hosting process which could indicate code injection or other form of suspicious code execution. """ from = "now-9m" index = ["winlogbeat-*", "logs-endpoint.events.*", "logs-windows.*"] language = "eql" license = "Elastic License v2" name = "Suspicious Managed Code Hosting Process" references = ["https://blog.menasec.net/2019/07/interesting-difr-traces-of-net-clr.html"] risk_score = 73 rule_id = "acf738b5-b5b2-4acc-bad9-1e18ee234f40" severity = "high" tags = ["Elastic", "Host", "Windows", "Threat Detection", "Defense Evasion"] type = "eql" query = ''' sequence by process.entity_id with maxspan=5m [process where event.type == "start" and process.name : ("wscript.exe", "cscript.exe", "mshta.exe", "wmic.exe", "regsvr32.exe", "svchost.exe", "dllhost.exe", "cmstp.exe")] [file where event.type != "deletion" and file.name : ("wscript.exe.log", "cscript.exe", "mshta.exe.log", "wmic.exe.log", "svchost.exe.log", "dllhost.exe.log", "cmstp.exe.log", "regsvr32.exe.log")] ''' [[rule.threat]] framework = "MITRE ATT&CK" [[rule.threat.technique]] id = "T1055" reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1055/" name = "Process Injection" [rule.threat.tactic] id = "TA0005" reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0005/" name = "Defense Evasion"