Suspicious Process Start Locations

Severity: medium
Author: juju4, Jonhnathan Ribeiro, oscd.community
Source: upstream

Detects suspicious process run from unusual locations

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Tactic	Techniques
Defense Evasion	`T1036` Masquerading

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`

or:
Image|contains: ':\RECYCLER\'
Image|contains: ':\SystemVolumeInformation\'
Image|startswith: 'C:\Windows\Tasks\'
Image|startswith: 'C:\Windows\addins\'
Image|startswith: 'C:\Windows\cursors\'
Image|startswith: 'C:\Windows\debug\'
Image|startswith: 'C:\Windows\drivers\'
Image|startswith: 'C:\Windows\fonts\'
Image|startswith: 'C:\Windows\help\'
Image|startswith: 'C:\Windows\system32\tasks\'

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.