Potentially Suspicious Electron Application CommandLine
Detects potentially suspicious CommandLine of electron apps (teams, discord, slack, etc.). This could be a sign of abuse to proxy execution through a signed binary.
Detection logic
Detection requirements
- Log source product
- windows
- Log source category
- process_creation
Known benign triggers
- Legitimate usage for debugging purposes
MITRE ATT&CK mappings
Not mapped to ATT&CK.
References
| Reference | Cited by |
|---|---|
| chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/chromium/+/master/content/public/common/content_switches.cc | Only this detection cites it |
| lolbas-project.github.io/lolbas/Binaries/Msedge/ | 4from 2 sources |
| lolbas-project.github.io/lolbas/Binaries/Teams/ | 2 |
| lolbas-project.github.io/lolbas/Binaries/msedgewebview2/ | 2 |
| medium.com/@MalFuzzer/one-electron-to-rule-them-all-dc2e9b263daf | 2 |
| positive.security/blog/ms-officecmd-rce | 2 |
From the source
- At source
- Open at source
- Upstream identifier
- 378a05d8-963c-46c9-bcce-13c7657eac99
- Tagged by the source as
- attack.execution
Licence
- Published under
- Detection Rule License 1.1Read the licence
- Attribution
- Required
Authorship
- Published
- Aug 26, 2026
- Version
- 1