Suspicious Process Spawned by wininit.exe

Cortex XDR Analytics Alert Reference by data source

Last date published
2024-04-15
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Synopsis

Activation Period

14 Days

Training Period

30 Days

Test Period

N/A (single event)

Deduplication Period

1 Day

Required Data

  • Requires:
    • XDR Agent

Detection Modules

ATT&CK Tactic

Defense Evasion (TA0005)

ATT&CK Technique

Masquerading (T1036)

Severity

Medium

Description

An unusual process was spawned by wininit.exe, possibly indicating malicious local or remote code execution.

Attacker's Goals

Gain code execution on the host.

Investigative actions

Check whether the executing process is benign, and if this was a desired behavior as part of its normal execution flow.