Suspicious SolarWinds Child Process

Last updated 5 months ago on 2025-03-20
Created 5 years ago on 2020-12-14

About

A suspicious SolarWinds child process was detected, which may indicate an attempt to execute malicious programs.
Tags
Domain: EndpointOS: WindowsUse Case: Threat DetectionTactic: ExecutionData Source: Elastic EndgameData Source: Elastic DefendData Source: SentinelOneLanguage: eql
Severity
medium
Risk Score
47
MITRE ATT&CK™

Execution (TA0002)(opens in a new tab or window)

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

False Positive Examples
Trusted SolarWinds child processes, verify process details such as network connections and file writes.
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-*endgame-*logs-sentinel_one_cloud_funnel.*
Related Integrations

endpoint(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.name: ("SolarWinds.BusinessLayerHost.exe", "SolarWinds.BusinessLayerHostx64.exe") and
 not (
    process.name : (
        "APMServiceControl*.exe",
        "ExportToPDFCmd*.Exe",
        "SolarWinds.Credentials.Orion.WebApi*.exe",
        "SolarWinds.Orion.Topology.Calculator*.exe",
        "Database-Maint.exe",
        "SolarWinds.Orion.ApiPoller.Service.exe",
        "WerFault.exe",
        "WerMgr.exe",
        "SolarWinds.BusinessLayerHost.exe",
        "SolarWinds.BusinessLayerHostx64.exe",
        "SolarWinds.Topology.Calculator.exe",
        "SolarWinds.Topology.Calculatorx64.exe",
        "SolarWinds.APM.RealTimeProcessPoller.exe") and
    process.code_signature.trusted == true
 ) and
 not process.executable : ("?:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\ARP.EXE", "?:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\lodctr.exe", "?:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\unlodctr.exe")

Install detection rules in Elastic Security

Detect Suspicious SolarWinds Child Process 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(opens in a new tab or window).