Suspicious Process Spawned by wininit.exe

Synopsis

Field	Value
Activation Period	14 Days
Training Period	30 Days
Test Period	N/A (single event)
Deduplication Period	1 Day
Required Data	XDR Agent
ATT&CK Tactic	Stealth (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.