Access To .Reg/.Hive Files By Uncommon Applications
Detects file access requests to files ending with either the ".hive"/".reg" extension, usually associated with Windows Registry backups.
Hunting test file_access windows - - lowfrack113 2023-09-15 2024-07-29 337a31c6-46c4-46be-886a-260d7aa78cac
1 Access To Browser Credential Files By Uncommon Applications - Security
Detects file access requests to browser credential stores by uncommon processes. (...)
Hunting test file_event windows WinEventLog Security - lowDaniel Koifman (@Koifsec), Nasreddine Bencherchali 2024-10-21 — 4b60e527-ec73-4b47-8cb3-f02ad927ca65
1 Access to Browser Login Data
Adversaries may acquire credentials from web browsers by reading files specific to the target browser. (...)
Generic test ps_script windows PowerShell - mediumfrack113 2022-01-30 — fc028194-969d-4122-8abe-0470d5b8f12f
1 Activate Suppression of Windows Security Center Notifications
Detect set Notification_Suppress to 1 to disable the Windows security center notification
Generic test registry_set windows Sysmon · WinEventLog Security - mediumfrack113 2022-08-19 2023-08-17 0c93308a-3f1b-40a9-b649-57ea1a1c1d63
1 Add DisallowRun Execution to Registry
Detect set DisallowRun to 1 to prevent user running specific computer program
Generic test registry_set windows Sysmon · WinEventLog Security - mediumfrack113 2022-08-19 2023-08-17 275641a5-a492-45e2-a817-7c81e9d9d3e9
1 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 Adwind RAT / JRAT
Detects javaw.exe in AppData folder as used by Adwind / JRAT
Emerging test process_creation windows Sysmon · WinEventLog Security - highFlorian Roth (Nextron Systems), Tom Ueltschi, Jonhnathan Ribeiro, oscd.community 2017-11-10 2022-10-09 1fac1481-2dbc-48b2-9096-753c49b4ec71
2 Adwind RAT / JRAT File Artifact
Detects javaw.exe in AppData folder as used by Adwind / JRAT
Generic test file_event windows Sysmon - highFlorian Roth (Nextron Systems), Tom Ueltschi, Jonhnathan Ribeiro, oscd.community 2017-11-10 2022-12-02 0bcfabcb-7929-47f4-93d6-b33fb67d34d1
2 Allow RDP Remote Assistance Feature
Detect enable rdp feature to allow specific user to rdp connect on the targeted machine
Generic test registry_set windows Sysmon · WinEventLog Security - mediumfrack113 2022-08-19 2023-08-17 37b437cf-3fc5-4c8e-9c94-1d7c9aff842b
1 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 Always Install Elevated MSI Spawned Cmd And Powershell
Detects Windows Installer service (msiexec.exe) spawning "cmd" or "powershell"
Generic test process_creation windows Sysmon · WinEventLog Security - mediumTeymur Kheirkhabarov (idea), Mangatas Tondang (rule), oscd.community 2020-10-13 2022-10-20 1e53dd56-8d83-4eb4-a43e-b790a05510aa
1 Always Install Elevated Parent Child Correlated
This rule will looks any process with low privilege launching Windows Installer service (msiexec.exe (...)
Unsupported unsupported process_creation windows Sysmon · WinEventLog Security - highTeymur Kheirkhabarov (idea), Mangatas Tondang (rule), oscd.community 2020-10-13 — 078235c5-6ec5-48e7-94b2-f8b5474379ea
1 Always Install Elevated Windows Installer
Detects Windows Installer service (msiexec.exe) trying to install MSI packages with SYSTEM privilege
Generic test process_creation windows Sysmon · WinEventLog Security - mediumTeymur Kheirkhabarov (idea), Mangatas Tondang (rule), oscd.community 2020-10-13 2024-12-01 cd951fdc-4b2f-47f5-ba99-a33bf61e3770
1 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 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 Arbitrary Shell Command Execution Via Settingcontent-Ms
The .SettingContent-ms file type was introduced in Windows 10 and allows a user to create "shortcuts" to various Windows 10 setting pages. (...)
Generic test process_creation windows Sysmon · WinEventLog Security - mediumSreeman 2020-03-13 2022-04-14 24de4f3b-804c-4165-b442-5a06a2302c7e
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 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 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 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 Splunk
Batch File Write to System32
The following analytic detects the creation of a batch file (.bat) within the Windows system directory tree, specifically in the System32 or SysWOW64 folders. (...)
Anomaly stable file_event windows Sysmon - mediumSteven Dick, Michael Haag, Rico Valdez, Splunk 2020-04-29 2026-07-02 503d17cb-9eab-4cf8-a20e-01d5c6987ae3
- 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 Blackbyte Ransomware Registry
Detects specific windows registry modifications made by BlackByte ransomware variants. (...)
Emerging test registry_set windows Sysmon · WinEventLog Security - highfrack113 2022-01-24 2025-10-21 83314318-052a-4c90-a1ad-660ece38d276
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 BPFDoor Abnormal Process ID or Lock File Accessed
detects BPFDoor .lock and .pid files access in temporary file storage facility
Generic test file_event linux Linux Auditd - highRafal Piasecki 2022-08-10 2026-03-30 808146b2-9332-4d78-9416-d7e47012d83d
4 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 Bypass UAC Using DelegateExecute
Bypasses User Account Control using a fileless method
Generic test registry_set windows Sysmon · WinEventLog Security - highfrack113 2022-01-05 2023-08-17 46dd5308-4572-4d12-aa43-8938f0184d4f
3 Bypass UAC Using SilentCleanup Task
Detects the setting of the environement variable "windir" to a non default value. (...)
Generic test registry_set windows Sysmon · WinEventLog Security - highfrack113, Nextron Systems 2022-01-06 2024-01-30 724ea201-6514-4f38-9739-e5973c34f49a
3 Bypass UAC via CMSTP
Detect commandline usage of Microsoft Connection Manager Profile Installer (cmstp.exe) to install sp (...)
Generic test process_creation windows Sysmon · WinEventLog Security - highE.M. Anhaus (originally from Atomic Blue Detections, Endgame), oscd.community 2019-10-24 2022-08-30 e66779cc-383e-4224-a3a4-267eeb585c40
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