Analytics BIOC
Medium
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Rundll32.exe spawns conhost.exe
This unusual parent-child process relationship may indicate that an attacker has abused rundll32.exe to run a console-based application such as PowerShell.
- Module:
- Platform Analytics
- Data source:
- XDR Agent
ATT&CK tactics: Defense Evasion (TA0005)
ATT&CK techniques: System Binary Proxy Execution: Rundll32 (T1218.011)
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.
- Test period:
- N/A (single event)
- Deduplication:
- 1 Day