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Remote Desktop Protocol - SharpRDP
Description
This detection monitors for the behavior that SharpRDP exhibits on the target system. The most relevant is leveraging taskmgr.exe to gain elevated execution, which means that taskmgr.exe is creating unexpected child processes.
- Rule type
- Scheduled
- Version
- 1.0.0
- Declared status
- Available
- Query frequency
- 1h
- Query period
- 1h
- Trigger
- gt 0
Declared MITRE coverage
Declared sources
Metadata from the source file. No dependencies inferred from KQL.
Connectors
Data types
KQL query
Original query, unchanged.
let executions = DeviceProcessEvents
| where InitiatingProcessFileName contains "taskmgr" and AccountName !contains "_ladm" // Include your LAPS /RID500 admin naming convention here.
// Add the below filter to look for stock SharpRDP behavior. However, with minorchanges to the stock version of SharpRDP the filter below can be bypassed.
//| where not(InitiatingProcessCommandLine has_any ("/1","/2","/3","/4"))
| where not(FolderPath =~ @"c:\Windows\system32\WerFault.exe" and ProcessCommandLine contains "-u -p")
| where not(FolderPath =~ @"c:\windows\system32\mmc.exe" and ProcessCommandLine contains @"C:\WINDOWS\System32\services.msc")
| where not(FolderPath =~ @"c:\windows\system32\resmon.exe");
executions
| join kind=leftsemi (DeviceLogonEvents
| where LogonType in ('Unlock', 'RemoteInteractive') and not (LogonType == 'Unlock' and RemoteIP == '127.0.0.1') and RemoteIP != "" and ActionType == "LogonSuccess") on DeviceId, LogonId
Declared entities
Related content
Links established from declared identifiers and solution manifests.
Source provenance
GitHubDisplayed values come from files in Azure/Azure-Sentinel. They describe the published template, not your workspace configuration.
- Commit
9800e51↗- Source identifier
cc46e76c-0d04-40b0-9c8b-929aa40513e7
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Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC