JumpCloud Agent

This brief describes a behavioral detection for Windows hosts where two or more distinct remote monitoring and management (RMM) or remote-access tools from different vendors are observed starting processes within an eight-minute window, indicating potential compromise, shadow IT, or attacker staging of redundant access.

Adversaries are leveraging legitimate Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) and remote access tools on Windows endpoints for command-and-control, persistence, and execution, with detection focusing on the first observed instance of these tools on a host.

This rule identifies suspicious child processes of Microsoft Office applications on macOS, which often result from exploitation or malicious macros, by detecting unexpected processes like curl, bash, osascript, and python spawned by Office apps, while filtering out false positives related to product version discovery, error reporting, and legitimate software.

This rule identifies Windows hosts where two or more distinct remote monitoring and management (RMM) or remote-access tool vendors are observed starting processes within the same eight-minute window, potentially indicating compromise, shadow IT, or attacker staging of redundant access.

This detection identifies a Windows host where two or more distinct remote monitoring and management (RMM) or remote-access tool vendors are observed starting processes within the same eight-minute window, potentially indicating compromise, shadow IT, or attacker staging of redundant access.