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  • Rundll32.exe spawns conhost.exe Medium

    This unusual parent-child process relationship may indicate that an attacker has abused rundll32.exe to run a console-based application such as PowerShell.

    Activation:
    14 Days
    Training:
    30 Days
    Test:
    N/A (single event)
    Deduplication:
    1 Day
    ATT&CK tactics: Stealth (TA0005)
    ATT&CK techniques: System Binary Proxy Execution: Rundll32 (T1218.011)
    Required data: XDR Agent
    Detector tags: LOLBIN Execution Analytics
    Attacker's goals: Evading detections by running code from a signed Microsoft executable.
    Investigative actions: Check whether the executing process is benign and if this was a desired behavior as part of its normal execution flow.