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name: Excessive Usage Of Taskkill
id: fe5bca48-accb-11eb-a67c-acde48001122
version: 1
date: '2021-05-04'
author: Teoderick Contreras, Splunk
type: batch
datamodel:
- Endpoint
description: This analytic identifies excessive usage of `taskkill.exe` application.
This application is commonly used by adversaries to evade detections by killing
security product processes or even other processes to evade detection.
search: '| tstats `security_content_summariesonly` values(Processes.process) as process
values(Processes.process_id) as process_id count min(_time) as firstTime max(_time)
as lastTime from datamodel=Endpoint.Processes where Processes.process_name = "taskkill.exe" by
Processes.parent_process_name Processes.process_name Processes.dest Processes.user
_time span=1m | where count >=10 | `drop_dm_object_name(Processes)` | `security_content_ctime(firstTime)`
| `security_content_ctime(lastTime)` | `excessive_usage_of_taskkill_filter`'
how_to_implement: To successfully implement this search, you need to be ingesting
logs with the process name, parent process, and command-line executions from your
endpoints. If you are using Sysmon, you must have at least version 6.0.4 of the
Sysmon TA. Tune and filter known instances where renamed taskkill.exe may be used.
known_false_positives: Unknown. Filter as needed.
references:
- https://thedfirreport.com/2020/04/20/sqlserver-or-the-miner-in-the-basement/
tags:
analytic_story:
- XMRig
automated_detection_testing: passed
dataset:
- https://media.githubusercontent.com/media/splunk/attack_data/master/datasets/malware/xmrig_miner/windows-sysmon.log
kill_chain_phases:
- Exploitation
mitre_attack_id:
- T1562.001
product:
- Splunk Enterprise
- Splunk Enterprise Security
- Splunk Cloud
required_fields:
- _time
- Processes.parent_process_name
- Processes.process_name
- Processes.dest
- Processes.user
- Processes.process
- Processes.process_id
security_domain: endpoint