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Suspicious Child Processes from Communication Applications

The detection rule identifies suspicious child processes spawned from communication applications on Windows systems, potentially indicating masquerading or exploitation of vulnerabilities within these applications.

Elastic Defend +12 defense-evasion persistence windows
3r 3t
medium advisory

Potential Masquerading as Communication Apps

Attackers may attempt to evade defenses by masquerading malicious processes as legitimate communication applications such as Slack, WebEx, Teams, Discord, RocketChat, Mattermost, WhatsApp, Zoom, Outlook and Thunderbird.

Slack +9 defense-evasion masquerading windows
2r 3t
medium advisory

Masquerading Business Application Installers

Attackers masquerade malicious executables as legitimate business application installers to trick users into downloading and executing malware, leveraging defense evasion and initial access techniques.

Elastic Defend +22 masquerading defense-evasion initial-access malware windows
2r 4t