Execution via Embedded Lua Interpreter

Tim Peck@timpeck

•updated Oct 16, 2025•0•67

Detects processes loading a Lua library (DLL), which could indicate the execution of an embedded Lua script for post-exploitation. This technique was demonstrated in the LOLMIL (Living Off the Land Models and Inference Libraries) research where an autonomous malware used an embedded Lua interpreter to run dynamically generated code.