New Netsh Helper DLL Registered From A Suspicious Location
Detects changes to the Netsh registry key to add a new DLL value that is located on a suspicious location. This change might be an indication of a potential persistence attempt by adding a malicious Netsh helper
Detection logic
Detection requirements
- Platform
- Windows
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the ATT&CK technique it maps to.
- Log source product
- windows
- Log source category
- registry_set
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 |
|---|---|
| pentestlab.blog/2019/10/29/persistence-netsh-helper-dll/ | 2 |
| www.ired.team/offensive-security/persistence/t1128-netsh-helper-dll | 2 |
From the source
- At source
- Open at source
- Upstream identifier
- e7b18879-676e-4a0e-ae18-27039185a8e7
- Tagged by the source as
- attack.persistenceattack.privilege-escalation
Licence
- Published under
- Detection Rule License 1.1Read the licence
- Attribution
- Required
Authorship
- Published
- Aug 26, 2026
- Version
- 1