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Tim Peck

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919 detections

Detects the execution of a PowerShell command that reads a file's byte stream and performs a XOR operation on it. This technique is used by the KONNI APT group to decrypt and execute an embedded payload in memory, as seen in their 2026 campaign involving AI-generated backdoors.
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Tim Peck@timpeck
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SecOps Signals
10 months ago
2044
Detects the legitimate 'pdf24.exe' process loading 'cryptbase.dll' from a non-standard directory. This is indicative of a DLL side-loading attack, a technique used by the PDFSIDER malware to achieve execution and bypass security controls.
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Tim Peck@timpeck
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Detections.ai Community
10 months ago
41133
Detects ICMP Echo Request packets where the Identification field is set to the specific magic value 0xC0DE (49374). This value is used by the VoidLink rootkit as a trigger for its covert, out-of-band C2 channel, which can bypass standard firewall rules.
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Tim Peck@timpeck
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Detections.ai Community
10 months ago
80128
Detects the execution of a Python interpreter (python.exe or pythonw.exe), potentially renamed, from a non-standard, user-writable location.
This can be an indicator of a threat actor dropping a portable Python environment to execute malicious scripts, as seen in campaigns like AsyncRAT.
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Tim Peck@timpeck
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Detections.ai Community
10 months ago
2528,097
Detects cscript.exe executing a JScript file using a legacy NTFS 8.3 shortname. This is a known technique used by Gootloader during its persistence phase to obfuscate the script's path and name.
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Tim Peck@timpeck
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Detections.ai Community
10 months ago
5081
Detects HTTP POST requests to the Appsmith password reset endpoint where the 'Origin' header does not match the expected internal or legitimate application domain. This is indicative of an attempt to exploit CVE-2026-22794 to achieve account takeover.
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Tim Peck@timpeck
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SecOps Signals
10 months ago
1025
Detects the creation or modification of a Windows service to belong to a high-priority service group.
Adversaries may use this technique, as seen with the EDRStartupHinder tool, to ensure their malicious service runs before security products, allowing them to disable or tamper with EDR/AV solutions before they can initialize.
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Tim Peck@timpeck
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Detections.ai Community
10 months ago
110136
Detects attempts to exploit the ServiceNow 'BodySnatcher' vulnerability (CVE-2025-12420) by invoking the internal 'AIA-Agent Invoker AutoChat' topic to execute arbitrary AI agents.
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Tim Peck@timpeck
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SecOps Signals
10 months ago
50130
Detects the use of PowerShell to add exclusions to Windows Defender. This technique was observed in the PHALT#BLYX campaign where attackers added exclusions for the 'C:\ProgramData' directory and for file extensions like '.exe', '.ps1', and '.proj' to prevent their malware from being detected.
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Tim Peck@timpeck
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Detections.ai Community
10 months ago
223175
Detects a PowerShell process that makes an outbound network connection and contains command-line arguments associated with reflectively loading a .NET assembly from a Base64 encoded string. This is a common fileless technique used by malware like Remcos to execute payloads in memory.
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Tim Peck@timpeck
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SecOps Signals
10 months ago
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