Potential CVE-2025-33053 Exploitation

Last updated 13 days ago on 2025-06-11
Created 13 days ago on 2025-06-11

About

Identifies a suspicious Diagnostics Utility for Internet Explorer child process. This may indicate the successful exploitation of the vulnerability CVE-2025-33053.
Tags
Domain: EndpointOS: WindowsUse Case: Threat DetectionTactic: Initial AccessTactic: Defense EvasionData Source: Elastic EndgameData Source: Elastic DefendData Source: SysmonData Source: Microsoft Defender for EndpointData Source: SentinelOneLanguage: eql
Severity
high
Risk Score
73
MITRE ATT&CK™

Initial Access (TA0001)(opens in a new tab or window)

Defense Evasion (TA0005)(opens in a new tab or window)

License
Elastic License v2(opens in a new tab or window)

Definition

Rule Type
Event Correlation Rule
Integration Pack
Prebuilt Security Detection Rules
Index Patterns
logs-endpoint.events.process-*winlogbeat-*logs-windows.sysmon_operational-*endgame-*logs-m365_defender.event-*logs-sentinel_one_cloud_funnel.*
Related Integrations

endpoint(opens in a new tab or window)

windows(opens in a new tab or window)

m365_defender(opens in a new tab or window)

sentinel_one_cloud_funnel(opens in a new tab or window)

Query
process where host.os.type == "windows" and event.type == "start" and
  process.parent.executable : "C:\\Program Files\\Internet Explorer\\iediagcmd.exe" and
  process.name : ("route.exe", "netsh.exe", "ipconfig.exe", "dxdiag.exe", "conhost.exe", "makecab.exe") and
  process.executable != null and
  not process.executable : ("C:\\Windows\\System32\\route.exe",
                            "C:\\Windows\\System32\\netsh.exe",
                            "C:\\Windows\\System32\\ipconfig.exe",
                            "C:\\Windows\\System32\\dxdiag.exe",
                            "C:\\Windows\\System32\\conhost.exe",
                            "C:\\Windows\\System32\\makecab.exe")

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