
title: Shells Spawned by Web Servers
author: Thomas Patzke
date: 2019/01/16
description: Web servers that spawn shell processes could be the result of a successfully
  placed web shell or an other attack
detection:
  SELECTION_1:
    EventID: 1
  SELECTION_2:
    ParentImage:
    - '*\w3wp.exe'
    - '*\httpd.exe'
    - '*\nginx.exe'
    - '*\php-cgi.exe'
    - '*\tomcat.exe'
    - '*\UMWorkerProcess.exe'
  SELECTION_3:
    Image:
    - '*\cmd.exe'
    - '*\sh.exe'
    - '*\bash.exe'
    - '*\powershell.exe'
    - '*\bitsadmin.exe'
  condition: (SELECTION_1 and SELECTION_2 and SELECTION_3)
falsepositives:
- Particular web applications may spawn a shell process legitimately
fields:
- CommandLine
- ParentCommandLine
id: 8202070f-edeb-4d31-a010-a26c72ac5600
level: high
logsource:
  category: process_creation
  product: windows
modified: 2020/03/25
status: experimental
tags:
- attack.persistence
- attack.t1505.003
- attack.privilege_escalation
- attack.t1190
ruletype: SIGMA
