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feat(rules): New Suspicious child process integrity level rule#577

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

Identifies the execution of the parent process running with low/medium integrity level that spawns a child process with the system integrity level. Because normal user-mode applications at lower integrity levels rarely legitimately create new processes running with SYSTEM privileges, this pattern is a strong indicator of privilege escalation or token manipulation where an attacker abuses a privileged token to execute code.

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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

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/area other

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Does this PR introduce a user-facing change?


@rabbitstack rabbitstack added the rules Anything related to detection rules label Jan 28, 2026
@rabbitstack rabbitstack force-pushed the suspicious-child-process-integrity-level branch from 25c5855 to 2e977a6 Compare January 29, 2026 20:02
Identifies the execution of the parent process running with low/medium integrity level that spawns a child process with the system integrity level. Because normal user-mode applications at lower integrity levels rarely legitimately create new processes running with SYSTEM privileges, this pattern is a strong indicator of privilege escalation or token manipulation where an attacker abuses a privileged token to execute code.
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