NetSupport Manager Execution from Abnormal Folder - Potential Malicious Use of RMM Tool
NetSupport is a legitimate remote control tool, and the base of the NetSupport RAT, abused to access victim machines and deploy malware. This hunt excludes common install paths, surfacing execution from directories…
Description
NetSupport is a legitimate remote control tool, and the base of the NetSupport RAT, abused to access victim machines and deploy malware. This hunt excludes common install paths, surfacing execution from directories such as Temp or System32.
Detection logic
Detection requirements
- Platform
- LinuxmacOSWindows
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the ATT&CK technique it maps to.
- Log source product
- securityeventswindowssecurityevents
- 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
- 3f329a8c-0102-4a61-8cf3-63948aab5ef4
- Tagged by the source as
- CommandAndControl
Licence
- Published under
- MIT LicenseRead the licence
- Attribution
- Required
- Obtained under
- MITRead the origin licence
Authorship
- Published
- Sep 1, 2026
- Version
- 1