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feat(rules): New `Suspicious protected process spawned` rule

Open rabbitstack opened this issue 4 months ago • 0 comments

What is the purpose of this PR / why it is needed?

Identifies when a non-SYSTEM process spawns a protected child process. This indicates an unusual behavior that is often associated with attempts to tamper with or freeze endpoint protection components.

What type of change does this PR introduce?


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/kind feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)

/kind bug-fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)

/kind refactor (non-breaking change that restructures the code, while not changing the original functionality)

/kind breaking (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected

/kind cleanup

/kind improvement

/kind design

/kind documentation

/kind other (change that doesn't pertain to any of the above categories)

Any specific area of the project related to this PR?


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/area instrumentation

/area telemetry

/area rule-engine

/area filters

/area yara

/area event

/area captures

/area alertsenders

/area outputs

/area rules

/area filaments

/area config

/area cli

/area tests

/area ci

/area build

/area docs

/area deps

/area evasion

/area other

Special notes for the reviewer


Does this PR introduce a user-facing change?


rabbitstack avatar Sep 29 '25 16:09 rabbitstack