CmdID

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Potential Proxy Execution Via Explorer.EXE From Shell Process

A Sigma rule for process creation on Windows, from SigmaHQ’s threat hunting rules, by Furkan CALISKAN, @caliskanfurkan_, @oscd_initiative.

low 1 ATT&CK technique 2 programs it names

What it looks for

its detection, as SigmaHQ writes it
detection:
  selection:
    CommandLine|contains: 'explorer.exe'
    Image|endswith: '\explorer.exe'
    ParentImage|endswith:
      - '\cmd.exe'
      - '\powershell.exe'
      - '\pwsh.exe'
  condition: selection

The rule’s detection, its selections and fields in order of name. The whole rule, with its references and false positives, is on SigmaHQ, by Furkan CALISKAN, @caliskanfurkan_, @oscd_initiative, under the Detection Rule License 1.1. CmdID evaluates it on a command line alone: a test on what a command line cannot show, such as the parent process or the user, is not met.

None of the everyday examples and documented commands on CmdID’s program pages trips it. To see whether a command line does, paste it into CmdID.

Programs and files it names

their pages here
explorer.exepowershell.exe

ATT&CK

the techniques it is tagged with
T1218System Binary Proxy Execution

Other rules for T1218 System Binary Proxy Execution

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