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    PsExec Lateral Movement via PSEXESVC Named Pipe over SMB

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    GlassDiceBearhttps://www.dicebear.comhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Glass” (https://www.dicebear.com) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
    Ankit Mehta@Secvyn
    •updated Jun 30, 2026•0•0•1

    This rule detects the use of the PSEXESVC named pipe during a write operation over the SMB protocol, which is indicative of lateral movement using the PsExec tool.

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    T1021.002 - SMB/Windows Admin SharesS0029 - PsExecTA0008 - Lateral MovementNetwork Connection InboundFile Share AccessWindowsSuricata IDSSnort IDSTCPTrojan Activity

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