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Suspicious Child Process Of Veeam Dabatase
Detects suspicious child processes of the Veeam service process. This could indicate potential RCE or SQL Injection.
MITRE ATT&CK coverage
| Tactic | Techniques |
|---|---|
| Initial Access | No specific technique |
| Persistence | No specific technique |
| Privilege Escalation | No specific technique |
Event coverage
| Provider | Event | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sysmon | Event ID 1 | Process creation |
Rule body yaml
title: Suspicious Child Process Of Veeam Dabatase
id: d55b793d-f847-4eea-b59a-5ab09908ac90
related:
- id: 869b9ca7-9ea2-4a5a-8325-e80e62f75445
type: similar
status: test
description: Detects suspicious child processes of the Veeam service process. This could indicate potential RCE or SQL Injection.
references:
- https://labs.withsecure.com/publications/fin7-target-veeam-servers
author: Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
date: 2023-05-04
tags:
- attack.initial-access
- attack.persistence
- attack.privilege-escalation
logsource:
category: process_creation
product: windows
detection:
selection_parent:
ParentImage|endswith: '\sqlservr.exe'
ParentCommandLine|contains: 'VEEAMSQL'
selection_child_1:
Image|endswith:
- '\cmd.exe'
- '\powershell.exe'
- '\pwsh.exe'
- '\wsl.exe'
- '\wt.exe'
CommandLine|contains:
- '-ex '
- 'bypass'
- 'cscript'
- 'DownloadString'
- 'http://'
- 'https://'
- 'mshta'
- 'regsvr32'
- 'rundll32'
- 'wscript'
- 'copy '
selection_child_2:
Image|endswith:
- '\net.exe'
- '\net1.exe'
- '\netstat.exe'
- '\nltest.exe'
- '\ping.exe'
- '\tasklist.exe'
- '\whoami.exe'
condition: selection_parent and 1 of selection_child_*
level: critical
Stages and Predicates
Stage 0: condition
selection_parent and 1 of selection_child_*Stage 1: selection_parent
selection_parent:
ParentImage|endswith: '\sqlservr.exe'
ParentCommandLine|contains: 'VEEAMSQL'
Stage 2: selection_child_1
selection_child_1:
Image|endswith:
- '\cmd.exe'
- '\powershell.exe'
- '\pwsh.exe'
- '\wsl.exe'
- '\wt.exe'
CommandLine|contains:
- '-ex '
- 'bypass'
- 'cscript'
- 'DownloadString'
- 'http://'
- 'https://'
- 'mshta'
- 'regsvr32'
- 'rundll32'
- 'wscript'
- 'copy '
Stage 3: selection_child_2
selection_child_2:
Image|endswith:
- '\net.exe'
- '\net1.exe'
- '\netstat.exe'
- '\nltest.exe'
- '\ping.exe'
- '\tasklist.exe'
- '\whoami.exe'
Indicators
Each row is a field, operator, and value that the rule matches. The corpus column counts how many other rules in the catalog look for the same combination: high numbers point to widely-used, community-vetted indicators. Blank or 1 shows that the indicator is specific to this rule.
| Field | Kind | Values |
|---|---|---|
CommandLine | match |
|
Image | ends_with |
|
ParentCommandLine | match |
|
ParentImage | ends_with |
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