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  • Commonly abused process launched as a system service Informational

    This commonly abused host process has been launched by a services.exe parent, indicating it has been installed as a system service. This behavior can have legitimate uses, but often used by malware as a persistence mechanism.

    Activation:
    14 Days
    Training:
    30 Days
    Test:
    N/A (single event)
    Deduplication:
    1 Day
    ATT&CK tactics: Execution (TA0002)
    ATT&CK techniques: System Services: Service Execution (T1569.002)
    Required data: XDR Agent
    Attacker's goals: Attackers may use services to persist or execute commands on remote hosts.
    Investigative actions: Check whether additional malicious commands were executed from the same process. Verify if the command-line seems suspicious or contains malicious indicators.