[metadata] creation_date = "2020/12/03" maturity = "production" updated_date = "2021/09/23" [rule] author = ["Elastic"] description = """ This rule identifies a high number (10) of process terminations (stop, delete, or suspend) from the same host within a short time period. """ from = "now-9m" index = ["winlogbeat-*", "logs-endpoint.events.*", "logs-windows.*"] language = "kuery" license = "Elastic License v2" name = "High Number of Process and/or Service Terminations" risk_score = 47 rule_id = "035889c4-2686-4583-a7df-67f89c292f2c" severity = "medium" tags = ["Elastic", "Host", "Windows", "Threat Detection", "Impact"] type = "threshold" query = ''' 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") ''' [[rule.threat]] framework = "MITRE ATT&CK" [[rule.threat.technique]] id = "T1489" name = "Service Stop" reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1489/" [rule.threat.tactic] id = "TA0040" name = "Impact" reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0040/" [rule.threshold] field = ["host.id"] value = 10