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FN on Potentially Suspicious Findstr.EXE Execution #4495

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ABOg4Ti opened this issue Oct 20, 2023 · 2 comments · Fixed by #4496
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FN on Potentially Suspicious Findstr.EXE Execution #4495

ABOg4Ti opened this issue Oct 20, 2023 · 2 comments · Fixed by #4496
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ABOg4Ti commented Oct 20, 2023

Rule UUID

ccb5742c-c248-4982-8c5c-5571b9275ad3

Example EventLog

OriginalFileName: FINDSTR.EXE
CommandLine: findstr /i "defender"
LogonGuid: {8b59c806-0f5b-6532-93bb-1c0000000000}
LogonId: 0x1CBB93
TerminalSessionId: 2
IntegrityLevel: Medium
Hashes: SHA1=FDC776E1297D6E6FB31F8EB0E85771D886A18DC2,MD5=804A6AE28E88689E0CF1946A6CB3FEE5,SHA256=B29BE6DA54121F5D9350C545ECECCE26F30A7F209CE0D9AAEA8E00C27DDA27A2,IMPHASH=A27641A39DA5A6B0717E06BA00E56B7F
ParentProcessGuid: {8b59c806-0f86-6532-f800-00000000d400}
ParentProcessId: 2944
ParentImage: C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe
ParentCommandLine: "C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe"

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When executed 'tasklist.exe | findstr /i "defender"', findstr is spawned as the child process of cmd.exe. As a result "Potentially Suspicious Findstr.EXE Execution" rule doesn't work.
tasklistfindstr

@ABOg4Ti ABOg4Ti added the False-Positive Issue reporting a false positive with one of the rules label Oct 20, 2023
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Welcome @Tuutaans 👋

It looks like this is your first issue on the Sigma rules repository!

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Hey @Tuutaans

Thanks for reporting this. This indeed seems like an oversight. Will provide a fix as soon as possible :)

@nasbench nasbench added Rules Work In Progress Some changes are needed labels Oct 20, 2023
@nasbench nasbench removed the Work In Progress Some changes are needed label Oct 26, 2023
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