Process Injection: Extra Window Memory Injection T1055.011

Tactics: Stealth, Privilege Escalation

Adversaries may inject malicious code into process via Extra Window Memory (EWM) in order to evade process-based defenses as well as possibly elevate privileges. EWM injection is a method of executing arbitrary code in the address space of a separate live process.

Events covered

1 catalog event is tagged with this technique by at least one rule.

ProviderEventTitle
SysmonEvent ID 10ProcessAccess

Authoring guide

Patterns shared across the 1 rule above: which fields they filter on, what specific values they look for, and what they exclude. The catalog normalizes field names across vendors so Sigma's Image, Elastic's process.name, and Splunk's process_name collapse into one row. Each rule contributes at most once per row.

Fields filtered most (2 distinct)

The fields most rules look at when detecting this technique. The How column shows the operators authors use (eq, wildcard, regex_match, match) and how often each appears. Sample values are concrete examples to start from, not an exhaustive list.

FieldRulesHowSample values
GrantedAccess1eq 10x1fffff
TargetImage1ends_with 1\calc.exe, \calculator.exe, \mspaint.exe

Top indicator values (8 distinct)

Specific (field, operator, value) combinations the rules check for, ranked by how many rules under this technique use each one. The Corpus reach column counts how many rules across the entire catalog (any technique) check the same combination. High numbers point to widely-used indicators that are likely noisy on their own; combine them with another condition for useful signal. Blank means the combination is specific to rules under this technique. Click a value to expand the rules under this technique that use it.

FieldKindValueRules (here)Corpus reach
GrantedAccesseq
0x1fffff
19
TargetImageends_with
\calc.exe
12
TargetImageends_with
\calculator.exe
12
TargetImageends_with
\mspaint.exe
12
TargetImageends_with
\notepad.exe
12
TargetImageends_with
\ping.exe
12
TargetImageends_with
\wordpad.exe
12
TargetImageends_with
\write.exe
12

Rules under this technique

Every rule in the catalog tagged with this technique, grouped by vendor. Click a rule title for its full predicates, exclusions, and indicators.

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Domain (all)

Sigma 1 rule