Detect Use of cmd exe to Launch Script Interpreters
Description
This search looks for the execution of the cscript.exe or wscript.exe processes, with a parent of cmd.exe. The search will return the count, the first and last time this execution was seen on a machine, the user, and the destination of the machine
- Type: TTP
- Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk Cloud
- Datamodel: Endpoint
- Last Updated: 2020-07-21
- Author: Bhavin Patel, Mauricio Velazco, Splunk
- ID: b89919ed-fe5f-492c-b139-95dbb162039e
Annotations
ATT&CK
Kill Chain Phase
- Installation
NIST
- DE.CM
CIS20
- CIS 10
CVE
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| tstats `security_content_summariesonly` count values(Processes.process) min(_time) as firstTime max(_time) as lastTime from datamodel=Endpoint.Processes where Processes.parent_process_name="cmd.exe" (Processes.process_name=cscript.exe OR Processes.process_name =wscript.exe) by Processes.parent_process Processes.process_name Processes.user Processes.dest
| `drop_dm_object_name("Processes")`
| `security_content_ctime(firstTime)`
|`security_content_ctime(lastTime)`
| `detect_use_of_cmd_exe_to_launch_script_interpreters_filter`
Macros
The SPL above uses the following Macros:
detect_use_of_cmd_exe_to_launch_script_interpreters_filter is a empty macro by default. It allows the user to filter out any results (false positives) without editing the SPL.
Required fields
List of fields required to use this analytic.
- _time
- Processes.process
- Processes.parent_process_name
- Processes.process_name
- Processes.parent_process
- Processes.user
- Processes.dest
How To Implement
To successfully implement this search, you must be ingesting data that records process activity from your hosts to populate the endpoint data model in the processes node. If you are using Sysmon, you must have at least version 6.0.4 of the Sysmon TA.
Known False Positives
Some legitimate applications may exhibit this behavior.
Associated Analytic Story
RBA
Risk Score | Impact | Confidence | Message |
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35.0 | 70 | 50 | cmd.exe launching script interpreters on $dest$ |
The Risk Score is calculated by the following formula: Risk Score = (Impact * Confidence/100). Initial Confidence and Impact is set by the analytic author.
Reference
Test Dataset
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