Legitimate Application Dropped Executable
Detects LOLBINs and applications that should not legitimately drop executable or executable-equivalent files to disk. This may indicate malware staging, process injection, or abuse of a trusted binary for payload…
Description
Detects LOLBINs and applications that should not legitimately drop executable or executable-equivalent files to disk. This may indicate malware staging, process injection, or abuse of a trusted binary for payload delivery.
Detection logic
Detection requirements
- Platform
- LinuxmacOSWindows
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the ATT&CK technique it maps to.
- Log source product
- windows
- Log source category
- file_event
Known benign triggers
- Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK mappings
0 exclusive techniques.This is coverage no other published rule has; it is not this rule's total technique count.
References
| Reference | Cited by |
|---|---|
| dmpdump.github.io/posts/TelegramRat/ | 2 |
| github.com/Neo23x0/sysmon-config/blob/3f808d9c022c507aae21a9346afba4a59dd533b9/sysmonconfig-export-block.xml#L1326 | 3 |
| www.virustotal.com/gui/file/a0d5b30578acd1df9139e7a8a4bfc659dc2cf48f4dc0c5804b70890adeb9fa21/behavior | 2 |
From the source
- At source
- Open at source
- Upstream identifier
- f0540f7e-2db3-4432-b9e0-3965486744bc
- Tagged by the source as
- attack.stealth
Licence
- Published under
- Detection Rule License 1.1Read the licence
- Attribution
- Required
Authorship
- Written by
- Published
- Aug 26, 2026
- Version
- 1