Suspicious process executed with a high integrity level

Synopsis

Field	Value
Activation Period	14 Days
Training Period	30 Days
Test Period	N/A (single event)
Deduplication Period	7 Days
Required Data	XDR Agent
ATT&CK Tactic	Privilege Escalation (TA0004)
ATT&CK Technique	Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism (T1548)
Severity	Informational

Description

A suspicious process was spawned with a High or System integrity level, which is higher than its parent process. This may indicate malicious privilege escalation.

Attacker's Goals

An attacker may attempt to gain higher privileges.

Investigative actions

• Check whether the command line executed is benign or normal for the host and/or user performing it.
• Investigate the endpoint to determine if it's a legitimate process that is supposed to run with privileges.

Variations

Suspicious process executed with a high integrity level

Synopsis

Field	Value
ATT&CK Tactic	Privilege Escalation (TA0004)
ATT&CK Technique	Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism (T1548)
Severity	Low

Description

A suspicious process was spawned with a High or System integrity level, which is higher than its parent process. This may indicate malicious privilege escalation.

Attacker's Goals

An attacker may attempt to gain higher privileges.

Investigative actions

• Check whether the command line executed is benign or normal for the host and/or user performing it.
• Investigate the endpoint to determine if it's a legitimate process that is supposed to run with privileges.