title: MSHTA Spwaned by SVCHOST author: Markus Neis date: 2018/06/07 description: Detects MSHTA.EXE spwaned by SVCHOST as seen in LethalHTA and described in report detection: SELECTION_1: EventID: 1 SELECTION_2: ParentImage: '*\svchost.exe' SELECTION_3: Image: '*\mshta.exe' condition: (SELECTION_1 and SELECTION_2 and SELECTION_3) falsepositives: - Unknown id: ed5d72a6-f8f4-479d-ba79-02f6a80d7471 level: high logsource: category: process_creation product: windows references: - https://codewhitesec.blogspot.com/2018/07/lethalhta.html status: experimental tags: - attack.defense_evasion - attack.t1218.005 - attack.execution - attack.t1170 ruletype: SIGMA