Suspicious MeshAgent Spawning Command Interpreter (via process_creation)

ATT&CK techniques

Persistence → C2

Recon
Resource Dev
Initial Access
Execution
Persistence
- T1543.003Windows Service
Priv Esc
- T1543.003Windows Service
Defense Evasion
Cred Access
Discovery
Lateral Movement
Collection
C2
- T1219Remote Access Tools
Exfiltration
Impact

What it detects

This rule detects the MeshAgent remote management binary spawning a command interpreter or scheduling utility such as PowerShell, cmd or schtasks. Adversaries abusing MeshCentral use the agent to execute follow-on commands and establish persistence, so an interpreter child under MeshAgent indicates hands-on-keyboard misuse of the RMM tool.

Reporting behind it

Related detections9 linkedT1219 — drag to rearrange

Suspicious Velociraptor DFIR Agent Spawning Encoded PowerShell

Suspicious RustDesk Remote Access Service Installation via sc (via process_creation)

Suspicious TightVNC Server Installation as a Service

Suspicious AnyDesk Execution from Temporary or System Directory (via process_creation)

Suspicious AnyDesk Unattended Access Password Set via Command Line (via process_creation)

Suspicious Kernel Driver Written to AppData Temp Linked to RansomHub EDR Killers

Suspicious PowerShell Spawned by Komari Monitoring Agent

Malicious Command Shell Spawned by Bomgar Remote Support Client

Suspicious Winpty Agent Spawned by Net Monitor Employee Monitoring Process

Suspicious MeshAgent Spawning Command Interpreter (via process_creation)

Pivot detection · T1219 · 9 related

Detection content is published as a reviewed draft. Tune thresholds and exclusions against your own telemetry before enabling this rule for alerting.

Full detection rule

Unlock this rule to view and copy it

The detection logic is included with a plan. Everything else — context, mappings and implementation details — stays free on this page.

Sign in for 3 free unlocks

Signing in gives you 3 unlocks to spend on any rule in the library. No card, and they do not expire.

Also included

Unlocked rules convert on this page — to Splunk SPL or Splunk — Raw Index SPL or Microsoft Sentinel KQL or Microsoft Sentinel ASIM ASIM KQL or Microsoft Defender XDR KQL or Elastic Security KQL or Elastic Security Lucene or Elastic Security ES|QL or CrowdStrike Falcon CQL or SentinelOne PowerQuery or Palo Alto Cortex XDR XQL or Carbon Black Cloud Platform Search or Carbon Black EDR Process Search or Google Security Operations UDM Search or IBM QRadar AQL or Sumo Logic Cloud SIEM Rules expression or Rapid7 InsightIDR LEQL or Graylog Search or OpenSearch Lucene or OpenSearch PPL PPL or Grafana Loki LogQL or SQLite SQL or Zircolite SQLite — with the log-source profile the engine picked, the field map it used, and everything it could not express. Converting a rule you have unlocked costs no further credit.

See it run on a free rule →Convert your own rule →