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Description

Quickly identify systems running new or unusual processes in your environment that could be indicators of suspicious activity. Processes run from unusual locations, those with conspicuously long command lines, and rare executables are all examples of activities that may warrant deeper investigation.

  • Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk Cloud
  • Datamodel: Endpoint, Endpoint_Processes
  • Last Updated: 2020-02-04
  • Author: Bhavin Patel, Splunk
  • ID: f4368e3f-d59f-4192-84f6-748ac5a3ddb6

Narrative

Being able to profile a host’s processes within your environment can help you more quickly identify processes that seem out of place when compared to the rest of the population of hosts or asset types.
This Analytic Story lets you identify processes that are either a) not typically seen running or b) have some sort of suspicious command-line arguments associated with them. This Analytic Story will also help you identify the user running these processes and the associated process activity on the host.
In the event an unusual process is identified, it is imperative to better understand how that process was able to execute on the host, when it first executed, and whether other hosts are affected. This extra information may provide clues that can help the analyst further investigate any suspicious activity.

Detections

Name Technique Type
Attacker Tools On Endpoint Match Legitimate Name or Location, Masquerading, OS Credential Dumping, Active Scanning TTP
Credential ExtractionFGDump and CacheDump OS Credential Dumping, Security Account Manager TTP
Detect Rare Executables   Anomaly
Detect processes used for System Network Configuration Discovery System Network Configuration Discovery TTP
First time seen command line argument Command and Scripting Interpreter, Indirect Command Execution Anomaly
Rare Parent-Child Process Relationship Exploitation for Client Execution, Command and Scripting Interpreter, Scheduled Task/Job, Software Deployment Tools Anomaly
RunDLL Loading DLL By Ordinal System Binary Proxy Execution, Rundll32 TTP
Rundll32 Shimcache Flush Modify Registry TTP
Suspicious Copy on System32 Rename System Utilities, Masquerading TTP
System Processes Run From Unexpected Locations Masquerading, Rename System Utilities Anomaly
Uncommon Processes On Endpoint Malicious File Hunting
Unusual LOLBAS in short period of time Command and Scripting Interpreter, Scheduled Task/Job Anomaly
Unusually Long Command Line   Anomaly
Unusually Long Command Line   Anomaly
Unusually Long Command Line - MLTK   Anomaly
Verclsid CLSID Execution Verclsid, System Binary Proxy Execution Hunting
WinRM Spawning a Process Exploit Public-Facing Application TTP
Windows DotNet Binary in Non Standard Path Masquerading, Rename System Utilities, System Binary Proxy Execution, InstallUtil Anomaly
Windows DotNet Binary in Non Standard Path Masquerading, Rename System Utilities, System Binary Proxy Execution, InstallUtil TTP
Windows InstallUtil in Non Standard Path Masquerading, Rename System Utilities, System Binary Proxy Execution, InstallUtil TTP
Windows LOLBin Binary in Non Standard Path Masquerading, Rename System Utilities, System Binary Proxy Execution, InstallUtil Anomaly
Windows NirSoft AdvancedRun Tool TTP
Windows Remote Assistance Spawning Process Process Injection TTP
Windows Rename System Utilities Acccheckconsole exe LOLBAS in Non Standard Path Masquerading, Rename System Utilities Anomaly
Windows Rename System Utilities Adplus exe LOLBAS in Non Standard Path Masquerading, Rename System Utilities Anomaly
Windows Rename System Utilities Advpack dll LOLBAS in Non Standard Path Masquerading, Rename System Utilities Anomaly
Windows Rename System Utilities Agentexecutor exe LOLBAS in Non Standard Path Masquerading, Rename System Utilities Anomaly
Windows Rename System Utilities Appinstaller exe LOLBAS in Non Standard Path Masquerading, Rename System Utilities Anomaly
Windows Rename System Utilities Appvlp exe LOLBAS in Non Standard Path Masquerading, Rename System Utilities Anomaly
Windows Rename System Utilities Aspnet compiler exe LOLBAS in Non Standard Path Masquerading, Rename System Utilities Anomaly
Windows Rename System Utilities At exe LOLBAS in Non Standard Path Masquerading, Rename System Utilities Anomaly
Windows Rename System Utilities Atbroker exe LOLBAS in Non Standard Path Masquerading, Rename System Utilities Anomaly
Wscript Or Cscript Suspicious Child Process Process Injection, Create or Modify System Process, Parent PID Spoofing, Access Token Manipulation TTP

Reference

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