Detection rules › Kusto Query Language
SUNBURST suspicious SolarWinds child processes
Identifies suspicious child processes of SolarWinds.Orion.Core.BusinessLayer.dll that may be evidence of the SUNBURST backdoor References: - https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2020/12/evasive-attacker-leverages-solarwinds-supply-chain-compromises-with-sunburst-backdoor.html - https://gist.github.com/olafhartong/71ffdd4cab4b6acd5cbcd1a0691ff82f
Event coverage
| Provider | Event ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sysmon | 1 | Process creation |
| Security-Auditing | 4688 | A new process has been created. |
| Defender-DeviceProcessEvents | 9001000 | Process activity (any) |
Stages and Predicates
Stage 1: source
DeviceProcessEvents
Stage 2: where
InitiatingProcessFileName eq "solarwinds.businesslayerhost.exe"
Stage 3: where
not
FolderPath match "excludeProcs"
Stage 4: extend
Exclusions
Top-level NOT(...) conjuncts — predicates this rule actively suppresses.
| Stage | Field | Kind | Excluded values |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Image | match | excludeProcs |
Indicators
Each row is a field, operator, and value that the rule matches. The corpus column counts how many other rules in the catalog look for the same combination: high numbers point to widely-used, community-vetted indicators. Blank or 1 shows that the indicator is specific to this rule.
| Field | Kind | Values |
|---|---|---|
InitiatingProcessFileName | eq |
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