Excessive Windows Discovery and Execution Processes - Potential Malware Installation
Utilizes a list of commonly abused LOLB an attacker or malware would execute in quick succession. The presence of multiple executions of the programs within the list can be indicative of an infection or malicious…
Description
Utilizes a list of commonly abused LOLB an attacker or malware would execute in quick succession. The presence of multiple executions of the programs within the list can be indicative of an infection or malicious activity occurring on a victim host.
Detection logic
Detection requirements
- Platform
- ESXiLinuxmacOSNetwork DevicesWindows
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the ATT&CK technique it maps to.
- Log source product
- securityevent
- Log source service
- securityevent
MITRE ATT&CK mappings
0 exclusive techniques.This is coverage no other published rule has; it is not this rule's total technique count.
No references are available for this detection.
From the source
- At source
- Open at source
- Upstream identifier
- 6d1c9f13-e43e-4b52-a443-5799465d573b
- Tagged by the source as
- Discovery
Licence
- Published under
- MIT LicenseRead the licence
- Attribution
- Required
- Obtained under
- MITRead the origin licence
Authorship
- Published
- Aug 29, 2026
- Version
- 1