Most Significant TTP 2026: mshta.exe Living-off-the-Land Staging of Obfuscated P
Detects mshta.exe initiating outbound network connections, followed closely by the execution of a powershell.exe process with an unusually large command line, or PowerShell script block events containing large, potentially obfuscated scripts. This behavior is indicative of 'DeepLoad' or 'ClickFix' style staging, where legitimate binaries are leveraged to download and execute heavily obfuscated payloads.
Microsoft Sentinel (KQL)
