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splunk-security_content/detections/endpoint/high_process_termination_frequency.yml
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name: High Process Termination Frequency
id: 17cd75b2-8666-11eb-9ab4-acde48001122
version: 1
date: '2021-03-16'
author: Teoderick Contreras
type: Anomaly
datamodel:
- Endpoint
description: This analytics are designed to indentify a high frequency of process
termination on a machine which is a common behavior of ransomware malware before
encrypting files. This technique is designed to avoid an exception error while accessing
(docs, images, database and etc..) in the infected machine for encryption.
search: '`sysmon` EventCode=5 |bin _time span=3s |stats values(Image) as proc_terminated
min(_time) as firstTime max(_time) as lastTime count by Computer EventCode ProcessID
| where count >= 15 | `security_content_ctime(firstTime)`| `security_content_ctime(lastTime)`
| `high_process_termination_frequency_filter`'
how_to_implement: To successfully implement this search, you need to be ingesting
logs with the Image (process full path of terminated process) from your endpoints.
If you are using Sysmon, you must have at least version 6.0.4 of the Sysmon TA.
known_false_positives: admin or user tool that can terminate multiple process.
references:
- https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2020/10/fin11-email-campaigns-precursor-for-ransomware-data-theft.html
- https://blog.virustotal.com/2020/11/keep-your-friends-close-keep-ransomware.html
tags:
analytic_story:
- Clop Ransomware
automated_detection_testing: passed
confidence: 80
context:
- Source:Endpoint
- Stage:Execution
dataset:
- https://media.githubusercontent.com/media/splunk/attack_data/master/datasets/malware/clop/clop_a/windows-sysmon.log
impact: 90
kill_chain_phases:
- Exploitation
message: High frequency process termination (more than 15 processes within 3s) detected
on host $Computer$
mitre_attack_id:
- T1486
observable:
- name: Computer
type: Endpoint
role:
- Victim
- name: proc_terminated
type: Process
role:
- Target
product:
- Splunk Enterprise
- Splunk Enterprise Security
- Splunk Cloud
required_fields:
- EventCode
- Image
- Computer
- _time
- ProcessID
risk_score: 72
security_domain: endpoint