Suspicious Execution from a PDF Documents
Description
Identifies a suspicious execution from a PDF document with embedded objects. This behavior is consistent with the successful exploitation using spearphishing attachment.
Query · eql
process where event.action == "start" and
(
(process.parent.name : "AcroRd*.exe" and
process.name : ("chrome.exe", "firefox.exe", "msedge.exe", "cscript.exe", "wscript.exe",
"mshta.exe", "powershell.exe", "hh.exe", "cmd.exe") and
process.args : "?:\\Users\\*\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\acrord*_sbx\\*") or
(process.parent.name : ("chrome.exe", "firefox.exe", "msedge.exe") and process.parent.args : "?:\\Users\\*\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\acrord*_sbx\\*" and
not process.name : ("chrome.exe", "firefox.exe", "msedge.exe")) or
(process.executable : "?:\\Users\\*\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\acrord*_sbx\\*" and
not process.code_signature.status : ("trusted", "errorExpired", "errorCode_endpoint*"))
)