Office

The rule identifies suspicious process creation where a process is created and immediately accessed from an unknown memory code region by the same parent process, indicating a potential code injection attempt, specifically process hollowing, commonly targeting processes spawned by Microsoft Office applications, scripting engines, and command-line tools for defense evasion.

Adversaries may create scheduled tasks on Windows systems to establish persistence, move laterally, or escalate privileges, and this detection identifies such activity by monitoring Windows event logs for scheduled task creation events, excluding known benign tasks and those created by system accounts.

This rule detects the creation of scheduled tasks in Windows using event logs, which adversaries may use for persistence, lateral movement, or privilege escalation by creating malicious tasks.