VMware Tools Suspicious Child Process for Persistence
This rule detects suspicious child processes spawned by the VMware Tools daemon (vmtoolsd.exe). Adversaries may leverage vmtoolsd.exe to establish persistence by executing various scripting and command-line interpreters such as cmd.exe, cscript.exe, mshta.exe, powershell.exe, pwsh.exe, regsvr32.exe, rundll32.exe, and wscript.exe. The rule specifically filters out legitimate VMware Tools scripts related to power management to reduce false positives.
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