Alternate PowerShell Hosts - PowerShell Module
Detects alternate PowerShell hosts potentially bypassing detections looking for powershell.exe
Detection logic
Detection requirements
Known benign triggers
- Citrix ConfigSync.ps1
- MSP Detection Searcher
- Programs using PowerShell directly without invocation of a dedicated interpreter
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 |
|---|---|
| threathunterplaybook.com/hunts/windows/190610-PwshAlternateHosts/notebook.html | 3 |
From the source
- At source
- Open at source
- Upstream identifier
- 64e8e417-c19a-475a-8d19-98ea705394cc
- Tagged by the source as
- attack.execution
Licence
- Published under
- Detection Rule License 1.1Read the licence
- Attribution
- Required
Authorship
- Written by
- Published
- Aug 26, 2026
- Version
- 1