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Suspect Child Process to IIS Worker Process (w3wp.exe) - Potential Exploitation

Identifies abnormal child processes of the Microsoft IIS Worker Process (w3wp.exe), which runs Web applications and handles requests for an application pool. Children such as cmd.exe or powershell.exe can indicate an…

Description

Identifies abnormal child processes of the Microsoft IIS Worker Process (w3wp.exe), which runs Web applications and handles requests for an application pool. Children such as cmd.exe or powershell.exe can indicate an exploit attempt.

Detection logic

Detection requirements

Platform
ContainersESXiIaaSLinuxmacOSNetwork DevicesWindows

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

Log source product
securityeventswindowssecurityevents
Log source service
securityevent

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