Suspicious Child Process for Java - Potential Exploitation Activity
Identifies Java spawning unusual child processes, which can indicate exploitation of the Java process. Java may not be the exploit target itself, but can be coaxed into executing malicious code via another service,…
Description
Identifies Java spawning unusual child processes, which can indicate exploitation of the Java process. Java may not be the exploit target itself, but can be coaxed into executing malicious code via another service, such as Log4j or Spring-Core.
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
MITRE ATT&CK mappings
0 exclusive techniques.This is coverage no other published rule has; it is not this rule's total technique count.
No references are available for this detection.
From the source
- At source
- Open at source
- Upstream identifier
- 46c5b8dd-465c-4a51-b127-7561bbca02ff
- Tagged by the source as
- DefenseEvasionInitialAccess
Licence
- Published under
- MIT LicenseRead the licence
- Attribution
- Required
- Obtained under
- MITRead the origin licence
Authorship
- Published
- Sep 1, 2026
- Version
- 1