LoFP / false positives are possible if legitimate applications are allowed to terminate this process during testing or updates. filter as needed based on paths that are used legitimately.

Techniques

• T1489

Sample rules

Windows Processes Killed By Industroyer2 Malware

• source: splunk
• technicques:
  • T1489

Description

The following analytic is to look for known processes killed by industroyer2 malware. This technique was seen in the industroyer2 malware attack that tries to kill several processes of windows host machines related to the energy facility network. This anomaly might be a good indicator to check which process kill these processes or why the process was killed.

Detection logic

`sysmon` EventCode=5 process_name IN ("PServiceControl.exe", "PService_PPD.exe") 
| stats min(_time) as firstTime max(_time) as lastTime count by process_name process process_path process_guid process_id EventCode dest user_id 
| `security_content_ctime(firstTime)`
| `security_content_ctime(lastTime)` 
| `windows_processes_killed_by_industroyer2_malware_filter`