Suspicious Command Line Activity

Ankit Mehta@Secvyn

•updated Jun 17, 2026•0•0•5

Detects suspicious command-line executions indicative of potential malicious activity, including the use of certutil for encoding/decoding, bitsadmin for transfers, and various PowerShell command invocations. This rule monitors process creation events (EventID 4688) for specific command-line patterns that are often abused by adversaries for tasks such as file transfer, execution, or obfuscation.