Windows Shell/Scripting Processes Spawning Suspicious Programs

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•updated Aug 12, 2024•2•0•33

Detects suspicious child processes spawned by common Windows shell and scripting processes such as mshta.exe, powershell.exe, rundll32.exe, cscript.exe, wscript.exe, wmiprvse.exe, and regsvr32.exe. The suspicious child processes include schtasks.exe, nslookup.exe, certutil.exe, bitsadmin.exe, and mshta.exe, which are often abused for various malicious activities like persistence, data exfiltration, or further execution.