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7zip CommandLine To SMB Share Path
The following analytic detects the execution of 7z or 7za processes with command lines pointing to SMB network shares. (...)
Hunting stable process_creation windows Sysmon · WinEventLog Security · CrowdStrike - mediumTeoderick Contreras, Splunk 2021-08-17 2026-05-13 01d29b48-ff6f-11eb-b81e-acde48001123
1 7Zip Compressing Dump Files
Detects execution of 7z in order to compress a file with a ".dmp"/".dump" extension, which could be a step in a process of dump file exfiltration.
Generic test process_creation windows Sysmon · WinEventLog Security - mediumNasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems) 2022-09-27 2026-06-05 ec570e53-4c76-45a9-804d-dc3f355ff7a7
1 Splunk
Anomalous usage of 7zip
The following analytic detects the execution of 7z.exe, a 7-Zip utility, spawned from rundll32.exe or dllhost.exe. (...)
Anomaly stable process_creation windows Sysmon · WinEventLog Security · CrowdStrike - mediumMichael Haag, Teoderick Contreras, Splunk 2021-04-22 2026-05-13 9364ee8e-a39a-11eb-8f1d-acde48001122
3 Application Removed Via Wmic.EXE
Detects the removal or uninstallation of an application via "Wmic.EXE".
Generic test process_creation windows Sysmon · WinEventLog Security - mediumfrack113 2022-01-28 2024-07-02 b53317a0-8acf-4fd1-8de8-a5401e776b96
1 Application Termination Attempt via Wmic.EXE
Detects an attempt to terminate a process via "wmic" with the "call terminate" flag. (...)
Generic test process_creation windows Sysmon · WinEventLog Security - mediumNasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems) 2023-09-11 — 49d9671b-0a0a-4c09-8280-d215bfd30662
2 AppLocker Application Would Have Been Blocked
Detects when AppLocker "Audit only" enforcement mode reports that an Application, DLL, Script, MSI, or Packaged-App would have been blocked if AppLocker "Enforce rules" enforcement mode was enabled.
Generic experimental - windows AppLocker - mediumheyyanu 2026-03-26 — 557e3bd3-7f21-495d-8d50-7c8bdfb8041c
4 AppLocker Prevented Application or Script from Running
Detects when AppLocker prevents the execution of an Application, DLL, Script, MSI, or Packaged-App from running.
Generic test - windows AppLocker - mediumPushkarev Dmitry 2020-06-28 2025-12-03 401e5d00-b944-11ea-8f9a-00163ecd60ae
3 AppX Package Installation Attempts Via AppInstaller.EXE
Detects DNS queries made by "AppInstaller.EXE". (...)
Generic test dns windows Sysmon - mediumfrack113 2021-11-24 2023-11-09 7cff77e1-9663-46a3-8260-17f2e1aa9d0a
2 APT User Agent
Detects suspicious user agent strings used in APT malware in proxy logs
Generic test proxy - - - highFlorian Roth (Nextron Systems), Markus Neis 2019-11-12 2024-02-15 6ec820f2-e963-4801-9127-d8b2dce4d31b
1 APT31 Judgement Panda Activity
Detects APT31 Judgement Panda activity as described in the Crowdstrike 2019 Global Threat Report
Emerging test process_creation windows Sysmon · WinEventLog Security - criticalFlorian Roth (Nextron Systems) 2019-02-21 2023-03-10 03e2746e-2b31-42f1-ab7a-eb39365b2422
1 APT40 Dropbox Tool User Agent
Detects suspicious user agent string of APT40 Dropbox tool
Emerging test proxy - - - highThomas Patzke 2019-11-12 2023-05-18 5ba715b6-71b7-44fd-8245-f66893e81b3d
1 Arbitrary File Download Via GfxDownloadWrapper.EXE
Detects execution of GfxDownloadWrapper.exe with a URL as an argument to download file.
Generic test process_creation windows Sysmon · WinEventLog Security - mediumVictor Sergeev, oscd.community 2020-10-09 2023-10-18 eee00933-a761-4cd0-be70-c42fe91731e7
1 Atomic MacOS Stealer - Persistence Indicators
Detects creation of persistence artifacts placed by Atomic MacOS Stealer in macOS systems. (...)
Emerging experimental file_event macos - - highJason Phang Vern - Onn, Robbin Ooi Zhen Heng (Gen Digital) 2025-11-22 — e710a880-1f18-4417-b6a0-b5afdf7e3023
2 Audio Capture
Detects attempts to record audio using the arecord and ecasound utilities.
Generic test process_creation linux Linux Auditd - lowPawel Mazur, Milad Cheraghi 2021-09-04 2025-12-05 a7af2487-9c2f-42e4-9bb9-ff961f0561d5
4 Audio Capture via PowerShell
Detects audio capture via PowerShell Cmdlet.
Generic test process_creation windows Sysmon · WinEventLog Security - mediumE.M. Anhaus (originally from Atomic Blue Detections, Endgame), oscd.community, Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems) 2019-10-24 2023-04-06 932fb0d8-692b-4b0f-a26e-5643a50fe7d6
3 Audio Capture via SoundRecorder
Detect attacker collecting audio via SoundRecorder application.
Generic test process_creation windows Sysmon · WinEventLog Security - mediumE.M. Anhaus (originally from Atomic Blue Detections, Endgame), oscd.community 2019-10-24 2021-11-27 83865853-59aa-449e-9600-74b9d89a6d6e
2 Automated Collection Command PowerShell
Once established within a system or network, an adversary may use automated techniques for collecting internal data.
Generic test ps_script windows PowerShell - mediumfrack113 2021-07-28 2022-12-25 c1dda054-d638-4c16-afc8-53e007f3fbc5
1 Automated Collection Command Prompt
Once established within a system or network, an adversary may use automated techniques for collecting internal data.
Generic test process_creation windows Sysmon · WinEventLog Security - mediumfrack113 2021-07-28 2022-11-11 f576a613-2392-4067-9d1a-9345fb58d8d1
2 Automated Turla Group Lateral Movement
Detects automated lateral movement by Turla group
Unsupported unsupported process_creation windows Sysmon · WinEventLog Security - mediumMarkus Neis 2017-11-07 2023-02-24 75925535-ca97-4e0a-a850-00b5c00779dc
1 AWS EC2 Startup Shell Script Change
Detects changes to the EC2 instance startup script. (...)
Generic test cloud_audit - AWS CloudTrail · AWS - highfaloker 2020-02-12 2022-06-07 1ab3c5ed-5baf-417b-bb6b-78ca33f6c3df
1 Splunk
AWS Exfiltration via Anomalous GetObject API Activity
The following analytic identifies anomalous GetObject API activity in AWS, indicating potential data exfiltration attempts. (...)
Anomaly stable cloud_audit - AWS CloudTrail · AWS - mediumBhavin Patel, Splunk 2023-04-10 2026-05-13 e4384bbf-5835-4831-8d85-694de6ad2cc6
3 Splunk
AWS Exfiltration via Batch Service
The following analytic identifies the creation of AWS Batch jobs that could potentially abuse the AWS Bucket Replication feature on S3 buckets. (...)
Generic stable scheduled_job - AWS CloudTrail · AWS - mediumBhavin Patel, Splunk 2023-04-24 2026-05-13 04455dd3-ced7-480f-b8e6-5469b99e98e2
2 Splunk
AWS Exfiltration via DataSync Task
The following analytic detects the creation of an AWS DataSync task, which could indicate potential data exfiltration. (...)
Generic stable scheduled_job - AWS CloudTrail · AWS - mediumBhavin Patel, Splunk 2023-04-10 2026-05-13 05c4b09f-ea28-4c7c-a7aa-a246f665c8a2
2 Axios NPM Compromise File Creation Indicators - Linux
Detects file creation events linked to the Axios NPM supply chain compromise. (...)
Emerging experimental file_event linux Sysmon - highSwachchhanda Shrawan Poudel (Nextron Systems) 2026-04-01 — b7cb840c-11f6-47f7-b3ef-5524739c9077
5 Axios NPM Compromise File Creation Indicators - MacOS
Detects file creation events linked to the Axios NPM supply chain compromise on macOS devices. (...)
Emerging experimental file_event macos - - highSwachchhanda Shrawan Poudel (Nextron Systems) 2026-04-01 — 2db0458c-05c9-4069-a26f-77becd9c8c13
5 Axios NPM Compromise Indicators - Linux
Detects the Linux-specific execution chain of the plain-crypto-js malicious npm dependency by Axios NPM package, including payload download via curl and detached execution using nohup and python3. (...)
Emerging experimental process_creation linux Sysmon - highSwachchhanda Shrawan Poudel (Nextron Systems) 2026-04-01 — 0a23a62d-c5b3-468b-a072-25064a9a8c87
5 Axios NPM Compromise Indicators - macOS
Detects the macOS-specific execution chain of the plain-crypto-js malicious npm dependency in Axios NPM Package, including AppleScript execution via osascript, payload download, permission modification, execution, and cleanup.
Emerging experimental process_creation macos - - highSwachchhanda Shrawan Poudel (Nextron Systems) 2026-04-01 — a09ee860-31b3-4586-8a68-0ebd74ce0e5f
5 Axios NPM Compromise Indicators - Windows
Detects the specific Windows execution chain and process tree associated with the Axios NPM supply chain compromise. (...)
Emerging experimental process_creation windows Sysmon · WinEventLog Security - highSwachchhanda Shrawan Poudel (Nextron Systems) 2026-04-01 — f6c27ecc-d890-4452-80e6-2e274a10e097
5 Axios NPM Compromise Malicious C2 Domain DNS Query
Detects DNS queries for the malicious C2 domain associated with the plain-crypto-js/Axios npm package supply chain compromise. (...)
Emerging experimental dns - - - highSwachchhanda Shrawan Poudel (Nextron Systems) 2026-04-01 — 73e5d24f-493f-4092-bd2f-c72cabda40ee
6 Bitbucket User Details Export Attempt Detected
Detects user data export activity.
Generic test cloud_audit - Bitbucket Audit · Bitbucket - mediumMuhammad Faisal (@faisalusuf) 2024-02-25 — 5259cbf2-0a75-48bf-b57a-c54d6fabaef3
2 Bitbucket User Permissions Export Attempt
Detects user permission data export attempt.
Generic test cloud_audit - Bitbucket Audit · Bitbucket - mediumMuhammad Faisal (@faisalusuf) 2024-02-25 — 87cc6698-3e07-4ba2-9b43-a85a73e151e2
2 Splunk
BITSAdmin Download File
The following analytic detects the use of `bitsadmin.exe` with the `transfer` parameter to download a remote object. (...)
Generic stable process_creation windows Sysmon · WinEventLog Security · CrowdStrike - mediumMichael Haag, Sittikorn S 2021-03-30 2026-10-02 80630ff4-8e4c-11eb-aab5-acde48001122
5 Bitsadmin to Uncommon IP Server Address
Detects Bitsadmin connections to IP addresses instead of FQDN names
Generic test proxy - - - highFlorian Roth (Nextron Systems) 2022-06-10 2022-08-24 8ccd35a2-1c7c-468b-b568-ac6cdf80eec3
1 Bitsadmin to Uncommon TLD
Detects Bitsadmin connections to domains with uncommon TLDs
Generic test proxy - - - highFlorian Roth (Nextron Systems), Tim Shelton 2019-03-07 2026-09-30 9eb68894-7476-4cd6-8752-23b51f5883a7
2 Blue Mockingbird
Attempts to detect system changes made by Blue Mockingbird
Emerging test process_creation windows Sysmon · WinEventLog Security - highTrent Liffick (@tliffick) 2020-05-14 2022-10-09 c3198a27-23a0-4c2c-af19-e5328d49680e
1 Blue Mockingbird - Registry
Attempts to detect system changes made by Blue Mockingbird
Emerging test registry_set windows Sysmon · WinEventLog Security - highTrent Liffick (@tliffick) 2020-05-14 2023-08-17 92b0b372-a939-44ed-a11b-5136cf680e27
1 Browser Execution In Headless Mode
Detects execution of Chromium based browser in headless mode
Generic test process_creation windows Sysmon · WinEventLog Security - lowNasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems) 2023-09-12 — ef9dcfed-690c-4c5d-a9d1-482cd422225c
2 Capabilities Discovery - Linux
Detects usage of "getcap" binary. (...)
Generic test process_creation linux Sysmon - lowNasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems) 2022-12-28 2026-01-24 d8d97d51-122d-4cdd-9e2f-01b4b4933530
3 Chafer Malware URL Pattern
Detects HTTP request used by Chafer malware to receive data from its C2.
Emerging test proxy - - - highFlorian Roth (Nextron Systems) 2019-01-31 2024-02-15 fb502828-2db0-438e-93e6-801c7548686d
1 Change User Agents with WebRequest
Adversaries may communicate using application layer protocols associated with web traffic to avoid detection/network filtering by blending in with existing traffic. (...)
Generic test ps_script windows PowerShell - mediumfrack113 2022-01-23 2025-07-18 d4488827-73af-4f8d-9244-7b7662ef046e
1 Splunk
Check Elevated CMD using whoami
The following analytic identifies the execution of the "whoami" command with the "/group" flag, where the results are passed to the "find" command in order to look for a the string "12288". (...)
Generic stable process_creation windows Sysmon · WinEventLog Security · CrowdStrike - mediumTeoderick Contreras, Splunk 2021-09-14 2026-05-13 a9079b18-1633-11ec-859c-acde48001122
- Chopper Webshell Process Pattern
Detects patterns found in process executions cause by China Chopper like tiny (ASPX) webshells
Generic test process_creation windows Sysmon · WinEventLog Security highFlorian Roth (Nextron Systems), MSTI (query) 2022-10-01 — fa3c117a-bc0d-416e-a31b-0c0e80653efb
1 Splunk
Cisco ASA - Reconnaissance Command Activity
This analytic detects potential reconnaissance activities on Cisco ASA devices by identifying execution of multiple information-gathering "show" commands within a short timeframe. (...)
Anomaly stable firewall - Cisco Secure Firewall · Cisco - mediumNasreddine Bencherchali, Splunk 2025-11-21 2026-05-13 6e9d4f7a-3c8b-4a9e-8d2f-7b5c9e1a6f3d
1 Cisco Discovery
Find information about network devices that is not stored in config files
Generic test authentication - Cisco AAA · Cisco - lowAustin Clark 2019-08-12 2023-01-04 9705a6a1-6db6-4a16-a987-15b7151e299b
1 Splunk
Cisco IOS XE Reconnaissance Command Activity
This analytic detects bursts of Cisco IOS or NX-OS discovery commands associated with Salt Typhoon tradecraft. (...)
Anomaly stable network_device - Cisco IOS · Cisco - mediumNasreddine Bencherchali 2026-05-19 2026-05-20 71ac5328-2364-40cf-8381-92b8dc531399
2 Splunk
Cisco Isovalent - Curl Execution With Insecure Flags
The following analytic detects the execution of curl commands with insecure flags within the Cisco Isovalent environment. (...)
Anomaly stable process_creation - Cisco - mediumBhavin Patel, Splunk 2026-01-05 2026-10-02 c16c4899-d3f7-461b-92c2-cc0ef5758855
3 Splunk
Cisco NVM - Osascript Network Connection for a Long Duration
This analytic detects the usage of the Utility osascript on a macOS device initiated a network connection lasting longer than 10 minutes (600 seconds). (...)
Anomaly stable network_connection - Cisco NVM · Cisco - mediumRadka Viskova, Splunk 2026-09-18 2026-09-22 6bc88a9d-f7de-4257-b526-acf15bc5a517
5 Splunk
Cisco NVM - Suspicious File Download via Headless Browser
This analytic identifies the use of Chromium-based browsers (like Microsoft Edge) running in headless mode with the `--dump-dom` argument. (...)
Generic stable network_connection - Cisco NVM · Cisco - mediumNasreddine Bencherchali, Splunk 2025-07-01 2026-09-22 cd0e816f-f67d-4dbe-a153-480b546e867e
4 Splunk
Cisco NVM - Webserver Download From File Sharing Website
This analytic detects unexpected outbound network connections initiated by known webserver processes such as `httpd.exe`, `nginx.exe`, or `tomcat.exe` to common file sharing or public content hosting services like GitHub, Discord CDN, Transfer.sh, or Pastebin. (...)
Generic stable network_connection - Cisco NVM · Cisco - mediumNasreddine Bencherchali, Splunk 2025-07-01 2026-09-22 1984f997-3b49-4d4b-a7e9-dc5dbf88370e
3 Splunk
Cisco Secure Firewall - Blacklisted SSL Certificate Fingerprint
The following analytic detects the use of known suspicious SSL certificates in any observed event where the SSL_CertFingerprint field is present. (...)
Generic stable firewall - Cisco Secure Firewall · Cisco - mediumNasreddine Bencherchali, Splunk 2025-04-03 2026-09-22 c43f7b49-2dab-4e76-892e-7f971c2f20f1
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