Detections

Explore public detection logic contributed by the community across SIEM and rule languages.

11,831 detections

Detects anomalous process execution and loopback network activity associated with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) 'exec_in_session' method. This pattern indicates an adversary potentially abusing the AI coding assistant's MCP server capabilities to execute arbitrary commands as a C2 channel.
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Arnold Chan@slaz
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Detection & Hunting Community
24 days ago
003
The following analytic identifies a Windows command interpreter process being executed where it's process name does not match it's original file name attribute.
Processes that have been renamed and executed may be an indicator that an adversary is attempting to evade defenses or execute malicious code.
Splunk Security@SplunkSecurity
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Splunk Security Content
24 days ago
103
Detects the ClickFix/fake-CAPTCHA initial access pattern where users are socially engineered into copying and pasting malicious commands into the Windows Run dialog or a browser-spawned shell. The rule matches on process creation events involving mshta.exe, powershell.exe, or wscript.exe initiated by explorer.exe or common shell-related processes, filtering out known administrative and deployment software.
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Ibrahim Saud@tektrix
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Detections.ai Community
30 days ago
11013
The following analytic detects the execution of a DCRat "forkbomb" payload, which spawns multiple cmd.exe processes that launch notepad.exe instances in quick succession. This detection leverages Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) data, focusing on the rapid creation of cmd.exe and notepad.exe processes within a 30-second window. This activity is significant as it indicates a potential DCRat infection, a known Remote Access Trojan (RAT) with destructive capabilities. If confirmed malicious, this behavior could lead to system instability, resource exhaustion, and potential disruption of services.
Splunk Security@SplunkSecurity
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Splunk Security Content
21 days ago
001
The following analytic detects potentially malicious processes that initiate a ping delay using an invalid IP address.
It leverages data from Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) agents, focusing on command-line executions involving "ping 0 -n".
Malware like NJRAT was observed using this technique to introduce time delays for evasion tactics, such as delaying self-deletion.
If confirmed malicious, this activity could indicate an active infection attempting to evade detection, potentially leading to further compromise and persistence within the environment.
Splunk Security@SplunkSecurity
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Splunk Security Content
21 days ago
001
Detects the spawning of shells, interpreters, or system reconnaissance binaries by primary Citrix NetScaler ADC/Gateway processes (httpd, nsppe, aslearning). This behavior is strongly indicative of post-exploitation activity, such as remote command execution, often following the exploitation of vulnerabilities like CVE-2026-88771.
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Ibrahim Saud@tektrix
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Detections.ai Community
1 month ago
7026
Detects Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint) spawning common LOLBins or command-line interpreters. This behavior is frequently associated with malicious macros or exploitation attempts delivering secondary payloads.
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Ibrahim Saud@tektrix
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Detections.ai Community
1 month ago
4013
Detects ClickFix-style attacks where a user is tricked into copying and pasting malicious, often obfuscated, commands into the Windows Run dialog or a command prompt. The detection identifies suspicious parent processes (like explorer.exe) spawning shell interpreters (powershell.exe, cmd.exe, mshta.exe) with inline encoded payloads or remote content retrieval patterns. It correlates these process executions with recent entries in the Windows RunMRU registry key to identify commands triggered via the Run dialog.
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Ibrahim Saud@tektrix
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Detections.ai Community
1 month ago
10013
Detects instances where the Windchill Java/Tomcat application server process spawns command-line interfaces such as cmd.exe, powershell.exe, or bash.exe. This activity is indicative of post-exploitation behavior associated with CVE-2026-12569, where an attacker exploits a deserialization vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands, often for the purpose of dropping web shells.
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Ankit Mehta@Secvyn
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Detections.ai Community
30 days ago
0011
Detects historical network connections, URL clicks, browser launches, email URLs, and process command lines associated with Wazza phishkit infrastructure IOCs including boegl-krysl.eu, coppietersrecherche.eu, and beacon-surge-sync.workers.dev.
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Arnold Chan@slaz
Defender - KQL
22 days ago
001
Detects historical network connections, URL clicks, browser launches, email URLs, and process command lines associated with Wazza phishkit infrastructure IOCs including boegl-krysl.eu, coppietersrecherche.eu, and beacon-surge-sync.workers.dev.
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Arnold Chan@slaz
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Hunters
22 days ago
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Detects a behavioral chain where PowerShell stages a hidden base64-encoded command and schedules a VBScript task, or PowerShell fetches an upgrade.txt file via web client methods for execution.
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Arnold Chan@slaz
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Midnight Slayer
22 days ago
001
Detects PowerShell execution performing port checks across multiple internal hosts using Test-NetConnection in a looping construct with output redirected to a log file, indicative of post-compromise reconnaissance (such as LONEPAGE scanning).
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Arnold Chan@slaz
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Midnight Slayer
22 days ago
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Detects PowerShell execution performing port checks across multiple internal hosts using Test-NetConnection in a looping construct with output redirected to a log file, indicative of post-compromise reconnaissance (such as LONEPAGE scanning).
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Arnold Chan@slaz
Defender - KQL
22 days ago
001
Detects the execution of MATCHBOIL malware variants (PlannerAssistantManager.exe or RegularExpressionExplorer.exe) using specific command-line arguments (-auto, -plans, -renew) which trigger C&C logic.
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Arnold Chan@slaz
Defender - KQL
22 days ago
001
Detects a potential web shell deployment by identifying a web server process creating or modifying a file in common web directory locations, followed shortly (within 10 minutes) by the execution of that same file.
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Ankit Mehta@Secvyn
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SlimKQL
30 days ago
8010
Detects potentially malicious use of rundll32.exe by monitoring for execution from suspicious directory paths (e.g., Temp, AppData, Downloads), execution with arguments missing common legitimate entry points, unexpected network connections originating from rundll32.exe, or rundll32.exe spawning child processes (excluding known safe binaries like conhost.exe or werfault.exe).
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Ibrahim Saud@tektrix
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Detections.ai Community
1 month ago
7010
Detects evidence of exploitation and post-exploitation activity related to CVE-2026-59310, an unauthenticated RCE vulnerability in the VMware vCenter Syslog Server. The rule monitors for suspicious child processes spawned by vmsyslogcollector, directory traversal patterns in command lines, and persistence mechanisms involving SSH authorized_keys modification, cron job creation, or systemd unit deployment on the VCSA shell.
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Ankit Mehta@Secvyn
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Detections.ai Community
30 days ago
609
Detects a sequence of events where a user clicks a shared link to an AI chatbot conversation followed closely (within 15 minutes) by the execution of potentially malicious processes (mshta, powershell, cmd) that include suspicious command-line patterns indicative of ClickFix-style social engineering.
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Arnold Chan@slaz
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Detections.ai Community
1 month ago
509
This rule detects potential command injection attacks targeting the Zimbra 'swatchdog' service, specifically involving the abuse of SNMP trap notifications (CVE-2026-73570). The attack works by injecting malicious shell metacharacters into the 'zimbra-MIB::zmServiceName' argument, which is processed by a Perl-invoked 'swatchdog' script. The rule monitors process execution events for shell commands spawned by the swatchdog utility that contain suspicious shell operators and the targeted MIB parameter.
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Arnold Chan@slaz
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Midnight Slayer
30 days ago
008
Detects awk-based shell command construction on ESX BusyBox that interleaves
an esxcli/vim-cmd command string with invisible Unicode code points (zero-width space,
zero-width non-joiner/joiner, word joiner, Mongolian vowel separator, left/right-to-left
marks, or Plane-16 private-use characters generated via sprintf hex escapes), strips them
with gsub(), and passes the result to system(). CrowdStrike documented this as one of 21
validated ESX obfuscation techniques that leaves only the invisible-character-laden string
in shell logs while the executed command is fully hidden from cleartext review.
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Georg Lauenstein@gsec
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SecOps Signals
20 days ago
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