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Hidden File Created in System Directory by Suspicious Process

Identifies an executable from a suspicious or writable location creating a hidden file in a system binary, configuration, or library directory. Adversaries may place dot-prefixed files in trusted system locations to…

Description

Identifies an executable from a suspicious or writable location creating a hidden file in a system binary, configuration, or library directory. Adversaries may place dot-prefixed files in trusted system locations to conceal payloads, configuration, or persistence artifacts.

Detection logic

Its licence does not clear it for publishing here

Sunturai publishes a detection's own text where the licence it arrived under has been reviewed and permits it, and Elastic License 2.0 has not. The query as its source wrote it, its canonical form and the hash that pins this revision are in the workspace record.

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Detection requirements

Platform
ESXiLinuxmacOSOffice SuiteWindows

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

Log source category
event_index

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