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Sysinternals PsSuspend Suspicious Execution

Severity
high
Author
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
Source
upstream

Detects suspicious execution of Sysinternals PsSuspend, where the utility is used to suspend critical processes such as AV or EDR to bypass defenses

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Defense EvasionT1562.001 Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon1Process creation

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: all of selection_img

or:
Image|endswith: '\pssuspend.exe'
Image|endswith: '\pssuspend64.exe'
OriginalFileName: pssuspend.exe

Stage 2: all of selection_cli

CommandLine|contains: msmpeng.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.

FieldKindValues
CommandLinematch
  • msmpeng.exe
Imageends_with
  • \pssuspend.exe corpus 3 (sigma 3)
  • \pssuspend64.exe corpus 3 (sigma 3)
OriginalFileNameeq
  • pssuspend.exe corpus 2 (sigma 2)