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Browser Spawning Suspicious Applications - Potential Exploit or Social Engineering

Browser exploitation often ends in a command being run. This hunt covers scripting engines and other applications a browser can be abused to launch, including the FileFix technique that tricks a user into pasting an…

Description

Browser exploitation often ends in a command being run. This hunt covers scripting engines and other applications a browser can be abused to launch, including the FileFix technique that tricks a user into pasting an attacker command into File Explorer.

Detection logic

Detection requirements

Platform
ContainersESXiIaaSIdentity ProviderLinuxmacOSNetwork DevicesOffice SuiteSaaSWindows

The rule states no platform. This is derived from the 2 ATT&CK techniques it maps to.

Log source product
securityeventswindowssecurityevents
Log source service
securityevent

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