Known false positives
- Legitimate use of procdump by a developer or administrator
MITRE ATT&CK coverage
| Tactic | Techniques |
|---|---|
| Stealth | |
| Credential Access |
Telemetry coverage
| Provider | Record / event type |
|---|---|
| Sysmon | Event ID 1: Process creation |
| Security-Auditing | Event ID 4688: A new process has been created. |
Rule body
title: Procdump Execution
id: 2e65275c-8288-4ab4-aeb7-6274f58b6b20
status: test
description: Detects usage of the SysInternals Procdump utility
references:
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procdump
author: Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
date: 2021-08-16
modified: 2026-06-29
tags:
- attack.stealth
- attack.t1036
- attack.t1003.001
- attack.credential-access
logsource:
category: process_creation
product: windows
detection:
selection:
Image|endswith:
- '\procdump.exe'
- '\procdump64.exe'
- '\procdump64a.exe'
condition: selection
falsepositives:
- Legitimate use of procdump by a developer or administrator
level: medium
Stages and Predicates
Stage 0: condition
selectionStage 1: selection
selection:
Image|endswith:
- '\procdump.exe'
- '\procdump64.exe'
- '\procdump64a.exe'
Indicators
These rows show field, operator, and value matches.
| Field | Kind | Values | Search |
|---|---|---|---|
Image | ends_with |
| field:"Image" kind:ends_with |