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Ethan Andrews

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1,181 detections

Detects potential steganographic data extraction by monitoring for command-line usage of certutil.exe or findstr.exe associated with specific file size markers (304204 bytes) or URL patterns (stego-image.png?sid=) often used in browser-cached file extraction, specifically linked to DOUBLECUP Stage 1 activity.
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Ethan Andrews@eandrews
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Federal Signal Detections
3 months ago
807
Detects deletion, modification, or renaming of the Chrome 'passkey_enclave_state' file by a process other than Chrome. This file contains sensitive wrapped identity, User Verification (UV) private keys, and security domain secrets. Unauthorized access or deletion of this file is indicative of an attempt to force Chrome to re-onboard the device, which may expose key material during the re-registration flow.
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Ethan Andrews@eandrews
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Federal Signal Detections
3 months ago
407
Detects the execution of 'certighost.py', a Python-based tool used to exploit CVE-2026-54121. The detection monitors process command lines for the specific script name in combination with command-line arguments (such as --dc-ip, --template, --computer-name, etc.) used to abuse the AD CS chase enrollment flow for malicious certificate requests.
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Ethan Andrews@eandrews
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Federal Signal Detections
4 months ago
670191
Detects potential exploitation of CVE-2026-59726 (RufRoot) against the Ruflo MCP bridge service. The rule identifies when the 'node' or 'ruflo' processes spawn shell interpreters (sh, bash) with command-line arguments typical of initial reconnaissance (id, hostname, whoami, uname) or arbitrary command execution, indicative of an unauthenticated remote code execution attempt.
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Ethan Andrews@eandrews
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Federal Signal Detections
4 months ago
14027
Detects Microsoft 365 service principals using application-only (client-credentials) authentication to access the Microsoft Graph API, specifically targeting the calendarView endpoint of user mailboxes. This behavior matches the HOLLOWGRAPH attack technique, which leverages M365 calendars as a covert command-and-control (C2) channel.
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Ethan Andrews@eandrews
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Federal Signal Detections
4 months ago
28026
Detects a VBS script invoking PowerShell to decode a Base64 payload, write it to disk with a random name, and decompress it using IO.Compression.GzipStream into tmp*.bat.gz/tmp*.bat files, consistent with the AutoIT-based VIPKeylogger/MedusaHVNC infection chain.
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Ethan Andrews@eandrews
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Federal Signal Detections
4 months ago
22025
Detects the execution of the 'clientCode' RAT process when initiated by a Node.js process (node.exe/node). This behavior is indicative of a second-stage payload execution related to supply chain compromises where malicious dependencies are leveraged to gain remote shell access.
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Ethan Andrews@eandrews
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Federal Signal Detections
4 months ago
7025
Detects Office 365 calendar events created or modified with a specific far-future date (2050-05-13) or dates scheduled more than 10 years into the future. This behavior is associated with the HOLLOWGRAPH backdoor, which uses calendar items as a C2 channel to hide tasking or exfiltration events from the mailbox owner.
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Ethan Andrews@eandrews
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Federal Signal Detections
4 months ago
37025
Detects the creation of a Windows service named 'svchost32' with a display name of 'Cloud Sync Service' via administrative command-line utilities like sc.exe, PowerShell, or cmd.exe. This activity is a known persistence mechanism for the CornFlake RAT, which masquerades as a legitimate system process to evade detection.
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Ethan Andrews@eandrews
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Federal Signal Detections
3 months ago
206
Detects execution or file drop of the GHOSTBLADE keychain-dumping module (keychain_copier.js) or its parent implant (ghostblade.js) on a device following DarkSword iOS exploit-chain compromise.
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Ethan Andrews@eandrews
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Federal Signal Detections
3 months ago
206
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