Visual Studio NodejsTools PressAnyKey Arbitrary Binary Execution

Severity: medium
Author: Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
Source: upstream

Detects child processes of Microsoft.NodejsTools.PressAnyKey.exe that can be used to execute any other binary

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Tactic	Techniques
Defense Evasion	`T1218` System Binary Proxy Execution

Event coverage

Provider	Event ID	Title
Sysmon	1	Process creation
Security-Auditing	4688	A new process has been created.

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: `selection`

ParentImage|endswith: '\Microsoft.NodejsTools.PressAnyKey.exe'

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.