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    Suspicious Conhost Headless Execution

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    GlassDiceBearhttps://www.dicebear.comhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Glass” (https://www.dicebear.com) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
    Duo Tech@duotech
    •updated Jun 9, 2026•2•0•6

    Detects the execution of conhost.exe (or conhost.ext) with the --headless parameter, a technique used in ClickFix campaigns to silently execute clipboard-injected commands.

    Cortex XDR

    Tags

    T1564.003 - Hidden WindowT1059.003 - Windows Command ShellT1204.004 - Malicious Copy and PasteTA0005 - Defense EvasionTA0002 - ExecutionProcess CreationCommand ExecutionWindows

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