Process Injection: Process Doppelgänging T1055.013

Tactics: Stealth, Privilege Escalation

Adversaries may inject malicious code into process via process doppelgänging in order to evade process-based defenses as well as possibly elevate privileges. Process doppelgänging 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.

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
EventID1eq 14104
ScriptBlockText1contains 1, in 1, match 1(?i)[c][r][e][a][t][e][p][r][o][c][e][s][s], (?i)[c][r][e][a][t][e][r][e][m][o][t][e][t][h][r][e][a][d], (?i)[c][r][e][a][t][e][t][h][r][e][a][d]

Top indicator values (23 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
EventIDeq
4104
1268
ScriptBlockTextcontains
add-type
1
ScriptBlockTextcontains
dllimport
1
ScriptBlockTextcontains
resumethread
1
ScriptBlockTextin
*extern bool*
1
ScriptBlockTextin
*extern int*
1
ScriptBlockTextin
*extern intptr*
1
ScriptBlockTextin
*extern uint*
1
ScriptBlockTextmatch
(?i)[c][r][e][a][t][e][p][r][o][c][e][s][s]
1
ScriptBlockTextmatch
(?i)[c][r][e][a][t][e][r][e][m][o][t][e][t][h][r][e][a][d]
1
ScriptBlockTextmatch
(?i)[c][r][e][a][t][e][t][h][r][e][a][d]
1
ScriptBlockTextmatch
(?i)[g][e][t][t][h][r][e][a][d][c][o][n][t][e][x][t]
1
ScriptBlockTextmatch
(?i)[n][t][c][r][e][a][t][e][s][e][c][t][i][o][n]
1
ScriptBlockTextmatch
(?i)[n][t][m][a][p][v][i][e][w][o][f][s][e][c][t][i][o][n]
1
ScriptBlockTextmatch
(?i)[o][p][e][n][p][r][o][c][e][s][s]
1
ScriptBlockTextmatch
(?i)[o][p][e][n][t][h][r][e][a][d]
1
ScriptBlockTextmatch
(?i)[q][u][e][u][e][u][s][e][r][a][p][c]
1
ScriptBlockTextmatch
(?i)[r][e][s][u][m][e][t][h][r][e][a][d]
1
ScriptBlockTextmatch
(?i)[s][e][t][t][h][r][e][a][d][c][o][n][t][e][x][t]
1
ScriptBlockTextmatch
(?i)[s][u][s][p][e][n][d][t][h][r][e][a][d]
1
ScriptBlockTextmatch
(?i)[v][i][r][t][u][a][l][a][l][l][o][c]
1
ScriptBlockTextmatch
(?i)[v][i][r][t][u][a][l][p][r][o][t][e][c][t]
1
ScriptBlockTextmatch
(?i)[w][r][i][t][e][p][r][o][c][e][s][s][m][e][m][o][r][y]
1

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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Splunk 1 rule