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Process Deletion of Its Own Executable

Severity
medium
Author
Max Altgelt (Nextron Systems)
Source
upstream

Detects the deletion of a process's executable by itself. This is usually not possible without workarounds and may be used by malware to hide its traces.

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon23FileDelete (File Delete archived)
Sysmon26FileDeleteDetected (File Delete logged)

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

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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.

FieldKindValues
TargetFilenamemacro
  • Image