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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 service
securityevent

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