User Detected with Suspicious Windows Process(es)
A machine learning job combination has identified a user with one or more suspicious Windows processes that exhibit unusually high malicious probability scores. These process(es) have been classified as malicious in…
Description
A machine learning job combination has identified a user with one or more suspicious Windows processes that exhibit unusually high malicious probability scores. These process(es) have been classified as malicious in several ways. The process(es) were predicted to be malicious by the ProblemChild supervised ML model. If the anomaly contains a cluster of suspicious processes, each process has the same user name, and the aggregate score of the event cluster was calculated to be unusually high by an unsupervised ML model. Such a cluster often contains suspicious or malicious activity, possibly involving LOLbins, that may be resistant to detection using conventional search rules.
Detection logic
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Detection requirements
- Platform
- ContainersESXiLinuxmacOSWindows
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the 2 ATT&CK techniques it maps to.
MITRE ATT&CK mappings
0 exclusive techniques.This is coverage no other published rule has; it is not this rule's total technique count.
References
| Reference | Cited by |
|---|---|
| docs.elastic.co/en/integrations/problemchild | 8 |
| www.elastic.co/guide/en/security/current/prebuilt-ml-jobs.html | 103 |
| www.elastic.co/security-labs/detecting-living-off-the-land-attacks-with-new-elastic-integration | 10 |
From the source
- At source
- Open at source
- Upstream identifier
- 1224da6c-0326-4b4f-8454-68cdc5ae542b
- Tagged by the source as
- Data Source: Elastic DefendData Source: Elastic EndgameDomain: EndpointOS: WindowsPlatform: WindowsResources: Investigation GuideRule Type: Machine LearningRule Type: MLTactic: Defense EvasionUse Case: Living off the Land Attack Detection
Licence
- Published under
- Elastic License 2.0Read the licence
- Attribution
- Required
Authorship
- Written by
- Published
- Sep 20, 2026
- Version
- 2