Early Bird APC Injection into Explorer.exe
Detects 'Early Bird' Asynchronous Procedure Call (APC) injection into 'explorer.exe' processes. This technique involves a suspicious parent process (like a script interpreter) creating a suspended 'explorer.exe' process, then injecting malicious code using API calls such as 'QueueUserAPC' and 'WriteProcessMemory' before the process fully starts. This rule specifically looks for the combination of these events within a short timeframe.
Microsoft Sentinel (KQL)
