Sunturai
Back to results
HighElastic detection rulesElastic +1

Suspicious Microsoft Antimalware Service Execution

Identifies suspicious execution of the Microsoft Antimalware Service Executable (MsMpEng.exe) from non-standard paths or renamed instances. This may indicate an attempt to evade defenses through DLL side-loading or…

Description

Identifies suspicious execution of the Microsoft Antimalware Service Executable (MsMpEng.exe) from non-standard paths or renamed instances. This may indicate an attempt to evade defenses through DLL side-loading or by masquerading as the antimalware process.

Detection logic

Its licence does not clear it for publishing here

Sunturai publishes a detection's own text where the licence it arrived under has been reviewed and permits it, and Elastic License 2.0 has not. The query as its source wrote it, its canonical form and the hash that pins this revision are in the workspace record.

Sign in to read itCreate an account

Detection requirements

Platform
ContainersESXiLinuxmacOSWindows

The rule states no platform. This is derived from the 2 ATT&CK techniques it maps to.

Log source category
event_index

Known benign triggers

  • Microsoft Antimalware Service Executable installed on non default installation path.

Detections can measure how the public catalogue is used — which detections people look for, and which pages bring them here. It sets a cookie that recognises this browser for 180 days. It is never linked to an account and never follows you to other sites. Privacy notice