while sometimes 'process hacker is used by legitimate administrators, the execution of process hacker must be investigated and allowed on a case by case basis

Techniques

Sample rules

PUA - Process Hacker Execution

source: sigma
technicques:
- t1543
- t1564
- t1622

Description

Detects the execution of Process Hacker based on binary metadata information (Image, Hash, Imphash, etc). Process Hacker is a tool to view and manipulate processes, kernel options and other low level options. Threat actors abused older vulnerable versions to manipulate system processes.

Detection logic

condition: selection
selection:
- Image|contains: \ProcessHacker_
- Image|endswith: \ProcessHacker.exe
- OriginalFileName:
  - ProcessHacker.exe
  - Process Hacker
- Description: Process Hacker
- Product: Process Hacker
- Hashes|contains:
  - MD5=68F9B52895F4D34E74112F3129B3B00D
  - MD5=B365AF317AE730A67C936F21432B9C71
  - SHA1=A0BDFAC3CE1880B32FF9B696458327CE352E3B1D
  - SHA1=C5E2018BF7C0F314FED4FD7FE7E69FA2E648359E
  - SHA256=D4A0FE56316A2C45B9BA9AC1005363309A3EDC7ACF9E4DF64D326A0FF273E80F
  - SHA256=BD2C2CF0631D881ED382817AFCCE2B093F4E412FFB170A719E2762F250ABFEA4
  - IMPHASH=3695333C60DEDECDCAFF1590409AA462
  - IMPHASH=04DE0AD9C37EB7BD52043D2ECAC958DF