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Allowing child process from parent process in Cortex XDR

L0 Member

Hello,

 

Is there a way to allow a legitimate parent process to create a legitimate child process on Cortex XDR that is being blocked due to "Suspicious Process Creation"? In my case, I whitelisted the child process but the block continues. I do not want to whitelist the parent process as this may allow malware into our environment someday.

 

I remember version 4.1 of Traps allowing this under Child Process Protection (I think was the name). For example "ParentProcess.exe ->spawns-> ChildProcess.exe : Allow". I looked into the exception profile, but it only allows me to create an exception for just one specific process.

 

If anyone has an idea of if/how to accomplish this with Cortex XDR, please let me know! Thank you, stay safe.

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L0 Member

Hi, I believe this may be what you are looking for:

 

  • Under Endpoints go to Policy Management
  • Then select Profiles on the left under the Prevention heading
  • Find your active Malware profile and right-click and Edit
  • Scroll down to Malicious Child Process Protection

You will then find a whitelist option to do a combo of the parent and child process along with any specific parameters

 Heloo @ajrechk 
According to:

Application information:
Application name:  Windows Explorer
Application version:  10.0.22621.3007
Application publisher:  Microsoft Corporation
Process ID:  20676
Application location:  C:\Windows\explorer.exe
Command line:  C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE
File origin:  Hard drive on this computer

 

Target application information:
Application name:  Java(TM) Platform SE binary
Application version:  21.0.2.0
Application publisher:  Oracle Corporation
Process ID:  2432
Application location:  C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-21\bin\javaw.exe
Command line:  "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-21\bin\javaw.exe" -jar "C:\Users\ayxanp\AppData\Local\Temp\961644af-8259-4735-a751-8b545a44ed02_apache-jmeter-5.6.3.tgz.d02\apache-jmeter-5.6.3\bin\ApacheJMeter.jar" 
File origin:  Hard drive on this computer

 

Prevention information:
Prevention date:  Thursday, February 22, 2024
Prevention time:  11:30:43
OS version:  10.0.22631.2.0.0.256.1
Component:  Child Process Protection
Status code:  80400057
Prevention description:  Suspicious process creation detected
Additional information 1:  explorer.exe
Additional information 2:  C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-21\bin\javaw.exe
Additional information 3:  -jar "C:\Users\ayxanp\AppData\Local\Temp\961644af-8259-4735-a751-8b545a44ed02_apache-jmeter-5.6.3.tgz.d02\apache-jmeter-5.6.3\bin\ApacheJMeter.jar" 
Additional information 4:  ChildProcessPattern: *\javaw.exe, Flag: D, CommandLineRegex: ((?i)([-/]jar\s+\"?((\Q%temp%\E)|(\Q%templong%\E)|(\Q%SystemDrive%\E\\Users\\.*\\temp)|(\Q%SystemDrive%\E\\docume.*\\temp))\\.*))

What should I write to these fields:
I need to create legacy agent exception for that. When I go to this page, I choose "Malware > Malicious Child Process Protection" as module and it requires me to fill three things which are:
1. Parent Process Name
2. Child Process Name
3. Child Process Command Line Params

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