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Suspicious Process Spawned by wininit.exe

An unusual process was spawned by wininit.exe, possibly indicating malicious local or remote code execution.

Module:
Platform Analytics
Data source:
XDR Agent
ATT&CK tactics: Defense Evasion (TA0005)
ATT&CK techniques: Masquerading (T1036)
Attacker's goals:

Gain code execution on the host.

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