Important Detection 2026 – DLL Search Order Hijacking/Side-Loading via Spoofed System DLLs
Detects the loading of common Windows system DLLs (e.g., version.dll, dbghelp.dll) from suspicious, non-standard directory paths. Such behavior is often indicative of DLL side-loading or hijacking attempts, where an adversary places a malicious DLL with the same name as a legitimate one in a writable directory to influence application execution.
Cortex XDR
