Suspicious Process Injection to Explorer

 1title: Suspicious Process Injection to Explorer
 2id: ddef6008-8465-4ce6-b2ec-4e8ffef62a9a
 3status: experimental
 4description: Detects the suspicious child process of regsvr32
 5references:
 6    - https://www.trellix.com/en-us/about/newsroom/stories/research/demystifying-qbot-malware.html
 7author: Adithya Chandra and Sushant Kumar Arya, Trellix
 8date: 2022/04/08
 9tags:
10    - attack.defense_evasion
11    - attack.t1218
12logsource:
13    category: process_creation
14    product: windows
15detection:
16    selection:
17        ParentImage|endswith: '\regsvr32.exe'
18        Image|endswith: '\explorer.exe'
19    condition: selection
20falsepositives:
21    - Unknown
22level: high```

References

• https://www.trellix.com/en-us/about/newsroom/stories/research/demystifying-qbot-malware.html

  
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