rundll32 Suspicious Parent Process (Windows Event Log)

id: '27464.49948'
title: rundll32 Suspicious Parent Process
description: Expected legitimate parent processes for rundll32 include svchost, explorer,
  spoolsv, and rundll32 itself. This use case detects executions of rundll32 with
  parent process names that are commonly targeted by threat actors for abuse. Living
  Off the Land Binary and Scripts (LOLBAS) (LOLBIN)
logic_format: Splunk
logic: '`get_endpoint_data` `get_endpoint_data_winevent` (TERM(EventCode=4688) OR
  "<EventID>4688<" OR Type=Process) "rundll32.exe" OR TERM(rundll32) | regex parent_process_name="(?i)(winword|excel|powerpnt|onenote|msaccess|lsass|taskeng|winlogon|schtask|regsvr32|wmiprvse|wsmprovhost|chrome|firefox|msedge|opera|iexplore|outlook|thunderbird|powershell|pwsh|cmd|wscript|cscript)\.exe"|
  where not (match(parent_process_name, "(?i)iexplore\.exe") and match(process, "(?i)C:\x5cWindows\x5csystem32\x5cinetcpl\.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess"))|
  table _time, host, user, process, process_*, parent_process_* | bin span=1s | stats
  values(*) as * by _time, host '
techniques:
- defense-evasion:system binary proxy execution:rundll32
technique_id:
- T1218.011
data_category:
- Windows event logs
references:
- https://redcanary.com/blog/lolbins-abuse/