AD Groups Or Users Enumeration Using PowerShell - PoshModule
Adversaries may attempt to find domain-level groups and permission settings. (...)
Generic test ps_module windows PowerShell - lowfrack113 2021-12-15 2023-01-20 815bfc17-7fc6-4908-a55e-2f37b98cedb4
1 AD Groups Or Users Enumeration Using PowerShell - ScriptBlock
Adversaries may attempt to find domain-level groups and permission settings. (...)
Generic test ps_script windows PowerShell - lowfrack113 2021-12-15 2022-12-25 88f0884b-331d-403d-a3a1-b668cf035603
1 ADFS Database Named Pipe Connection By Uncommon Tool
Detects suspicious local connections via a named pipe to the AD FS configuration database (Windows Internal Database). (...)
Generic test pipe_created windows Sysmon - mediumRoberto Rodriguez @Cyb3rWard0g 2021-10-08 2023-11-30 1ea13e8c-03ea-409b-877d-ce5c3d2c1cb3
3 ADS Zone.Identifier Deleted
Detects the deletion of the "Zone.Identifier" ADS. (...)
Hunting test file_delete windows Sysmon - lowfrack113 2023-09-04 — 7eac0a16-5832-4e81-865f-0268a6d19e4b
1 ADS Zone.Identifier Deleted By Uncommon Application
Detects the deletion of the "Zone.Identifier" ADS by an uncommon process. (...)
Generic test file_delete windows Sysmon - mediumNasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems) 2023-09-04 2025-07-04 3109530e-ab47-4cc6-a953-cac5ebcc93ae
2 Alternate PowerShell Hosts - PowerShell Module
Detects alternate PowerShell hosts potentially bypassing detections looking for powershell.exe
Generic test ps_module windows PowerShell - mediumRoberto Rodriguez @Cyb3rWard0g 2019-08-11 2025-10-17 64e8e417-c19a-475a-8d19-98ea705394cc
1 Alternate PowerShell Hosts Pipe
Detects alternate PowerShell hosts potentially bypassing detections looking for powershell.exe
Generic test pipe_created windows Sysmon - mediumRoberto Rodriguez @Cyb3rWard0g, Tim Shelton 2019-09-12 2025-10-07 58cb02d5-78ce-4692-b3e1-dce850aae41a
2 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 APT29 2018 Phishing Campaign CommandLine Indicators
Detects indicators of APT 29 (Cozy Bear) phishing-campaign as reported by mandiant
Emerging stable process_creation windows Sysmon · WinEventLog Security - criticalFlorian Roth (Nextron Systems), @41thexplorer 2018-11-20 2023-03-08 7453575c-a747-40b9-839b-125a0aae324b
3 APT29 2018 Phishing Campaign File Indicators
Detects indicators of APT 29 (Cozy Bear) phishing-campaign as reported by mandiant
Emerging stable file_event windows Sysmon - critical@41thexplorer 2018-11-20 2023-02-20 3a3f81ca-652c-482b-adeb-b1c804727f74
2 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 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 AWS EC2 VM Export Failure
An attempt to export an AWS EC2 instance has been detected. (...)
Generic test cloud_audit - AWS CloudTrail · AWS - lowDiogo Braz 2020-04-16 2022-10-05 54b9a76a-3c71-4673-b4b3-2edb4566ea7b
1 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 Backup Catalog Deleted
Detects backup catalog deletions
Generic test - windows WinEventLog Application - mediumFlorian Roth (Nextron Systems), Tom U. @c_APT_ure (collection) 2017-05-12 2022-12-25 9703792d-fd9a-456d-a672-ff92efe4806a
2 Bad Opsec Defaults Sacrificial Processes With Improper Arguments
Detects attackers using tooling with bad opsec defaults. (...)
Generic test process_creation windows Sysmon · WinEventLog Security - highOleg Kolesnikov @securonix invrep_de, oscd.community, Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), Christian Burkard (Nextron Systems) 2020-10-23 2024-08-15 a7c3d773-caef-227e-a7e7-c2f13c622329
7 Bad Opsec Powershell Code Artifacts
focuses on trivial artifacts observed in variants of prevalent offensive ps1 payloads, including
Cob (...)
Generic test ps_module windows PowerShell - criticalok @securonix invrep_de, oscd.community 2020-10-09 2022-12-25 8d31a8ce-46b5-4dd6-bdc3-680931f1db86
3 Base64 Encoded PowerShell Command Detected
Detects usage of the "FromBase64String" function in the commandline which is used to decode a base64 (...)
Generic test process_creation windows Sysmon · WinEventLog Security - highFlorian Roth (Nextron Systems) 2020-01-29 2023-01-26 e32d4572-9826-4738-b651-95fa63747e8a
1 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 BloodHound Collection Files
Detects default file names outputted by the BloodHound collection tool SharpHound
Generic test file_event windows Sysmon - highC.J. May 2022-08-09 2026-02-19 02773bed-83bf-469f-b7ff-e676e7d78bab
1 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 bXOR Operator Usage In PowerShell Command Line - PowerShell Classic
Detects powershell execution with that make use of to the bxor (Bitwise XOR). (...)
Hunting test ps_classic_start windows PowerShell - lowTeymur Kheirkhabarov, Harish Segar 2020-06-29 2024-12-11 812837bb-b17f-45e9-8bd0-0ec35d2e3bd6
2 Certificate Exported Via PowerShell
Detects calls to cmdlets that are used to export certificates from the local certificate store. (...)
Generic test process_creation windows Sysmon · WinEventLog Security - mediumNasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems) 2023-05-18 — 9e716b33-63b2-46da-86a4-bd3c3b9b5dfb
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 PowerShell Policies to an Insecure Level
Detects changing the PowerShell script execution policy to a potentially insecure level using the "-ExecutionPolicy" flag.
Generic test process_creation windows Sysmon · WinEventLog Security - mediumfrack113 2021-11-01 2025-10-07 87e3c4e8-a6a8-4ad9-bb4f-46e7ff99a180
4 Change PowerShell Policies to an Insecure Level - PowerShell
Detects changing the PowerShell script execution policy to a potentially insecure level using the "Set-ExecutionPolicy" cmdlet.
Generic test ps_script windows PowerShell - mediumfrack113 2021-10-20 2023-12-14 61d0475c-173f-4844-86f7-f3eebae1c66b
3 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 ChromeLoader Malware Execution
Detects execution of ChromeLoader malware via a registered scheduled task
Emerging test process_creation windows Sysmon · WinEventLog Security - high@kostastsale 2022-01-10 — 0a74c5a9-1b71-4475-9af2-7829d320d5c2
4 Splunk
Cisco ASA - Device File Copy Activity
This analytic detects file copy activity on Cisco ASA devices via CLI or ASDM. (...)
Anomaly stable firewall - Cisco Secure Firewall · Cisco - mediumNasreddine Bencherchali, Splunk 2025-11-21 2026-05-13 4d7e8f3a-9c2b-4e6f-8a1d-5b9c7e2f4a8c
1 Splunk
Cisco ASA - Device File Copy to Remote Location
This analytic detects file copy operations to remote locations on Cisco ASA devices via CLI or ASDM. (...)
Anomaly stable firewall - Cisco Secure Firewall · Cisco - mediumNasreddine Bencherchali, Splunk 2025-11-21 2026-05-13 8a9e5f2b-6d4c-4e7f-9b3a-1c8d7f5e2a9b
2 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
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