Highly Obfuscated Command Line Using Caret Escaping

Ankit Mehta@Secvyn

•updated Jun 30, 2026•0•0•0

Detects excessive caret (^) escaping in command lines, a common obfuscation technique used by attackers to evade detection and conceal malicious commands. The rule specifically looks for command-line executions by cmd.exe, powershell.exe, or pwsh.exe that contain more than 5 caret characters and a pattern of at least three alphanumeric characters immediately followed by a caret.