filebeat.exe
Filebeat sends log files to Logstash or directly to Elasticsearch. file version info
Program on Windows 1 known copy with hashes 1 Sigma rule names it
Is it the real filebeat.exe?
Installed in
C:\Program Files\Elastic\Agent\data\elastic-agent-5ae799\install\filebeat-7.15.1-windows-x86_64\Signed byElasticsearch
ProductFilebeat, Elastic
DescriptionFilebeat sends log files to Logstash or directly to Elasticsearch.
1 known copy
7.15.1 · C:\Program Files\Elastic\Agent\data\elastic-agent-5ae799\install\filebeat-7.15.1-windows-x86_64\filebeat.exe · signed by Elasticsearch
393ba05d660901e1034d4c7d0972e2ee3b7e59fd06b95e45aa13a6f04c099c91From the file’s version info and the copies recorded by xCyclopedia (MIT). A copy in another folder, signed by someone else or with another hash is not necessarily malicious, but it is worth a closer look. In Ceplin, "<sha256>".whatis() says which known copy a hash is.
What detects it
Sigma names filebeat.exe in 1 rule, for every kind of event; none is a process creation rule CmdID evaluates, so none is listed.