Detection rules › Sigma
Suspicious Wordpad Outbound Connections
Detects a network connection initiated by "wordpad.exe" over uncommon destination ports. This might indicate potential process injection activity from a beacon or similar mechanisms.
Event coverage
| Provider | Event ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sysmon | 3 | Network connection |
Stages and Predicates
Stage 1: selection
Image|endswith: '\wordpad.exe'
Initiated: true
Stage 2: not 1 of filter_main_ports
DestinationPort: [139, 443, 445, 465, 587, 80, 993, 995]
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 |
|---|---|---|
DestinationPort | eq |
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Image | ends_with |
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Initiated | eq |
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