First Time Seen Remote Monitoring and Management Tool

Last updated a month ago on 2026-06-23
Created 3 years ago on 2023-04-03

About

Adversaries may install legitimate remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools or remote access software on compromised endpoints for command-and-control (C2), persistence, and execution of native commands. This rule detects when a process is started whose name or code signature matches commonly abused RMM or remote access tools. New Terms type: the host.id and process.name pair has not been seen before within the configured 7-day history window.
Tags
Domain: EndpointOS: WindowsUse Case: Threat DetectionTactic: Command and ControlData Source: Elastic DefendData Source: Elastic EndgameData Source: Windows Security Event LogsData Source: SysmonLanguage: kuery
Severity
medium
Risk Score
47
MITRE ATT&CK™

Command and Control (TA0011)(external, opens in a new tab or window)

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

Definition

Rule Type
New Terms Rule
Integration Pack
Prebuilt Security Detection Rules
Index Patterns
logs-endpoint.events.process-*endgame-*winlogbeat-*logs-windows.forwarded*logs-windows.sysmon_operational-*logs-system.security*
Related Integrations

endpoint(external, opens in a new tab or window)

windows(external, opens in a new tab or window)

system(external, opens in a new tab or window)

Query
text code block:
host.os.type: "windows" and event.category: "process" and event.type: "start" and ( process.code_signature.subject_name : ( "Action1 Corporation" or "Aeroadmin LLC" or "AeroAdmin LLC" or "AmidaWare LLC" or "Ammyy LLC" or "AnyDesk Software GmbH" or "AOMEI International Network Limited" or "Atera Networks Ltd" or "AWERAY PTE. LTD." or "BeamYourScreen GmbH" or "Bomgar Corporation" or "BreakingSecurity.net" or "ConnectWise, Inc." or "ConnectWise, LLC" or "Connectwise, LLC" or "Devolutions Inc" or "Devolutions inc." or "DOMOTZ INC." or "DUC FABULOUS CO.,LTD" or "DWSNET OÜ" or "DWSNET srl" or "Electronic Team, Inc." or "Famatech Corp." or "FleetDeck Inc" or "GlavSoft LLC" or "GlavSoft LLC." or "GoTo Technologies USA, LLC" or "Hefei Pingbo Network Technology Co. Ltd" or "IDrive, Inc." or "Impero Solutions Limited" or "IMPERO SOLUTIONS LIMITED" or "Instant Housecall" or "ISL Online Ltd." or "JumpCloud Inc" or "Level Software, Inc." or "LogMeIn, Inc." or "LUNIXAR SAS DE CV" or "MMSOFT Design Ltd." or "Monitoring Client" or "MSPBytes Corp" or "MSPBytes, Corp." or "N-ABLE TECHNOLOGIES LTD" or "Nanosystems S.r.l." or "NetSupport Ltd" or "NetSupport Ltd." or "NETSUPPORT LTD." or "NinjaOne LLC" or "NinjaRMM, LLC" or "Open Source Developer, Huabing Zhou" or "Parallels International GmbH" or "philandro Software GmbH" or "Pro Softnet Corporation" or "PURSLANE" or "RealVNC" or "RealVNC Limited" or "REMOTE UTILITIES PTE. LTD." or "Remote Utilities LLC" or "Rocket Software, Inc." or "Rsupport Co., Ltd." or "SAFIB" or "ScreenConnect Client" or "Servably, Inc." or "Servably Inc." or "ShowMyPC INC" or "SimpleHelp Ltd" or "Splashtop Inc." or "Superops Inc." or "Tailscale Inc." or "TeamViewer" or "TeamViewer GmbH" or "TeamViewer Germany GmbH" or "Techinline Limited" or "uvnc bvba" or "Yakhnovets Denis Aleksandrovich IP" or "Zhou Huabing" or "ZOHO Corporation Private Limited" ) or process.name.caseless : ( AA_v*.exe or "AcronisCyberProtectConnectAgent.exe" or "AeroAdmin.exe" or "AgentMon.exe" or "AnyDesk.exe" or "apc_Admin.exe" or "apc_host.exe" or "AteraAgent.exe" or aweray_remote*.exe or "AweSun.exe" or "B4-Service.exe" or "BASupSrvc.exe" or "bomgar-scc.exe" or "CagService.exe" or "CloudRaCmd.exe" or "CloudRaSd.exe" or "CloudRaService.exe" or ConnectWiseControl*.exe or "connectwisecontrol.client.exe" or "domotzagent.exe" or "domotz-windows-x64-10.exe" or "dwagsvc.exe" or "DWRCC.exe" or "dwrcs.exe" or "dwrcst.exe" or fleetdeck_commander*.exe or "g2aservice.exe" or "getscreen.exe" or "GoToAssistService.exe" or "GoToResolveProcessChecker.exe" or "GoToResolveRemoteControl.exe" or "GoToResolveService.exe" or "GoToResolveTerminal.exe" or "GoToResolveUnattended.exe" or "gotohttp.exe" or "helpwire.exe" or "ImmyAgent.exe" or "ImmyBot.Agent.Ephemeral.exe" or "ImmyUpdater.exe" or "ImperoClientSVC.exe" or "ImperoServerSVC.exe" or "ISLLight.exe" or "ISLLightClient.exe" or "jumpcloud-agent.exe" or "komari.exe" or "komari-agent.exe" or "level.exe" or "lmi_rescue.exe" or "lmi_rescue_srv.exe" or "LMIIgnition.exe" or "LogMeIn.exe" or "ltsvc.exe" or "ltsvcmon.exe" or "lttray.exe" or "Lunixar.exe" or "LunixarRemote.exe" or "LunixarUpdater.exe" or "LvAgent.exe" or "ManageEngine_Remote_Access_Plus.exe" or "MeshAgent.exe" or "Mikogo-Service.exe" or "nezha-agent.exe" or "NinjaRMMAgent.exe" or "NinjaRMMAgentPatcher.exe" or "ninjarmm-cli.exe" or "parsec.exe" or "PService.exe" or "quickassist.exe" or "r_server.exe" or "radmin.exe" or "radmin3.exe" or "rcengmgru.exe" or "RCClient.exe" or "rcmgrsvc.exe" or "RCService.exe" or "Remote Support.exe" or "RemoteDesktopManager.exe" or "Remotely_Agent.exe" or "Remotely_Desktop.exe" or "RemotePC.exe" or "RemotePCDesktop.exe" or "RemotePCService.exe" or "remoteview.exe" or "rfusclient.exe" or "RMM.Agent.exe" or "ROMServer.exe" or "ROMViewer.exe" or "RPCSuite.exe" or "rserver3.exe" or "rustdesk.exe" or "rutserv.exe" or "rutview.exe" or "rvagent.exe" or "rvagtray.exe" or "saazapsc.exe" or ScreenConnect*.exe or "ScreenConnect.ClientService.exe" or "session_win.exe" or "simplegatewayservice.exe" or "simplehelpcustomer.exe" or "smpcview.exe" or "spclink.exe" or "Splashtop-streamer.exe" or "SplashtopSOS.exe" or "spsrv.exe" or "sragent.exe" or "SRService.exe" or "srmanager.exe" or "srserver.exe" or "strwinclt.exe" or "Supremo.exe" or "SupremoService.exe" or "Syncro.App.Runner.exe" or "Syncro.Installer.exe" or "Syncro.Overmind.Service.exe" or "Syncro.Service.exe" or "SyncroLive.Agent.exe" or "SyncroLive.Agent.Runner.exe" or "SyncroLive.Service.exe" or "tacticalrmm.exe" or "tailscale.exe" or "tailscaled.exe" or "teamviewer.exe" or "teamviewer_desktop.exe" or "teamviewer_service.exe" or "TiAgent.exe" or "TiClientCore.exe" or "ToDesk_Service.exe" or "ToolsIQ.exe" or "TSClient.exe" or "tvn.exe" or "tvnserver.exe" or "tvnviewer.exe" or "twingate.exe" or UltraVNC*.exe or UltraViewer*.exe or "Velociraptor.exe" or "vncserver.exe" or "vncviewer.exe" or "winvnc.exe" or "winwvc.exe" or "ZA_Access.exe" or "za_connect.exe" or "Zaservice.exe" or "ZMAgent.exe" or "ZohoMeeting.exe" or "zohotray.exe" or "ZohoURS.exe" or "ZohoURSService.exe" ) ) and not (process.pe.original_file_name : ("G2M.exe" or "Updater.exe" or "powershell.exe") and process.code_signature.subject_name : "LogMeIn, Inc.")

Install detection rules in Elastic Security

Detect First Time Seen Remote Monitoring and Management Tool in the Elastic Security detection engine by installing this rule into your Elastic Stack.

To setup this rule, check out the installation guide for Prebuilt Security Detection Rules(external, opens in a new tab or window).