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Ethan Andrews

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Detects Cisco device configuration lines containing weakly protected or plaintext credentials (Type 0 plaintext, Type 4 broken SHA-256, Type 7 Vigenere-cipher passwords) captured in syslog/config backup feeds. These weak hash types are trivially reversible and, once a router config is exfiltrated (e.g., via SNMP/TFTP abuse), allow rapid credential recovery and lateral movement.
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Federal Signal Detections
4 months ago
7012
This rule detects the creation or presence of a file named 'kbdus1.dll' within the Windows System32 directory. This filename is designed to look like the legitimate Windows keyboard layout DLL 'kbdus.dll' by appending a '1'. Threat actors, specifically associated with the Stupig backdoor, utilize this masquerading technique to blend in with legitimate system files and evade detection by security monitoring tools that rely on filename-based filtering.
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Federal Signal Detections
4 months ago
207
Detects a single host rapidly initiating outbound Telnet (port 23) or SSH (port 22) connection attempts against a large number of distinct remote IP addresses in a short window. This behavior is indicative of bot-agent scanners, such as those associated with IoT botnets, attempting to propagate by performing brute-force login attempts using default credential pairs.
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Federal Signal Detections
4 months ago
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Detects anomalous, automated data exfiltration cycles in Microsoft 365 environments consistent with the Helix threat group. The rule identifies a pattern of successful sign-ins followed within 6 hours by new MFA registration, suspicious SharePoint enumeration, and a high-frequency, non-human-paced burst of file downloads.
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Federal Signal Detections
4 months ago
54051
This rule detects access to known adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing infrastructure mimicking Microsoft login pages. It identifies malicious URLs matching specific randomized path token patterns or those hosting a known phishing domain, while also monitoring for associated session-specific parameters such as 'rt=', 'PHPSESSID', and 'preload=1' cookies, as well as traffic interacting with legitimate 'login.microsoftonline.com' domains in a proxy context.
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Federal Signal Detections
4 months ago
22051
Detects the Cursor IDE (Cursor.exe) executing a process named git.exe from a file path outside of the standard Git installation directory (typically under Program Files). This behavior is indicative of an attacker placing a malicious git.exe binary within a repository directory to facilitate automatic execution and potential command execution when the folder is opened within the IDE, bypassing standard security trust prompts.
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Federal Signal Detections
4 months ago
1408
Detects the HelloNet campaign's persistence technique in which itcsrvup64.exe (ViPNet Update System, part of ViPNet Client) sideloads a malicious wtsapi32.dll from the ViPNet Update System directory to execute a payload at OS startup.
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Federal Signal Detections
4 months ago
306
Detects new device registrations in Microsoft Entra ID where the device display name is prefixed with 'Forg365-', a pattern used by the Forg365 PhaaS (Phishing-as-a-Service) platform. This activity is indicative of an adversary establishing persistent, unmanaged device access to compromised Microsoft 365 accounts.
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Federal Signal Detections
4 months ago
17037
Detects execution of QuarksDumpLocalHash, a tool used to extract local account password hashes directly from the SAM registry hive. This activity is indicative of credential dumping for offline password cracking.
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Federal Signal Detections
4 months ago
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Detects execution of TuxBot v3 multi-architecture ELF binaries, characterized by architecture-specific suffixes (e.g., tuxbot.x86_64) or the presence of the 'Infected By Akiru' banner in command-line arguments. These indicators serve as proxies for identifying this specific LLM-generated bot agent on disk or during runtime execution.
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Federal Signal Detections
4 months ago
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