Host Detected with Suspicious Windows Process(es)

Last updated 15 days ago on 2025-03-20
Created a year ago on 2023-10-16

About

A machine learning job combination has identified a host with one or more suspicious Windows processes that exhibit unusually high malicious probability scores.These process(es) have been classified as malicious in several ways. The process(es) were predicted to be malicious by the ProblemChild supervised ML model. If the anomaly contains a cluster of suspicious processes, each process has the same host name, and the aggregate score of the event cluster was calculated to be unusually high by an unsupervised ML model. Such a cluster often contains suspicious or malicious activity, possibly involving LOLbins, that may be resistant to detection using conventional search rules.
Tags
Use Case: Living off the Land Attack DetectionRule Type: MLRule Type: Machine LearningTactic: Defense Evasion
Severity
low
Risk Score
21
MITRE ATT&CK™

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

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

Definition

Rule Type
Machine Learning
Integration Pack
Prebuilt Security Detection Rules
Related Integrations

problemchild(opens in a new tab or window)

endpoint(opens in a new tab or window)

windows(opens in a new tab or window)

Query

Install detection rules in Elastic Security

Detect Host Detected with Suspicious Windows Process(es) 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).