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  • Suspicious process executed with a high integrity level Informational 1 variation

    A suspicious process was spawned with a High or System integrity level, which is higher than its parent process. This may indicate malicious privilege escalation.

    Activation:
    14 Days
    Training:
    30 Days
    Test:
    N/A (single event)
    Deduplication:
    7 Days
    ATT&CK tactics: Privilege Escalation (TA0004)
    ATT&CK techniques: Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism (T1548)
    Required data: XDR Agent
    Attacker's goals: An attacker may attempt to gain higher privileges.
    Investigative actions: Check whether the command line executed is benign or normal for the host and/or user performing it. Investigate the endpoint to determine if it's a legitimate process that is supposed to run with privileges.

    Variations

    Suspicious process executed with a high integrity level

    Low overridden

    A suspicious process was spawned with a High or System integrity level, which is higher than its parent process. This may indicate malicious privilege escalation. overridden