Agent Tesla Credential Theft and Exfiltration Activity Detected

Ankit Mehta@Secvyn

•updated Jun 12, 2026•0•0•5

This rule detects potential Agent Tesla malware activity by correlating process execution with network connections. It looks for processes named 'agenttesla.exe', 'atsvc.exe', or 'atservice.exe' that execute with command-line arguments indicative of data exfiltration (e.g., 'smtp', 'ftp', 'http.post', 'exfil'). The rule then correlates these process events with outbound network connections to non-private IP addresses, flagging instances where multiple process runs and multiple network connections occur within a 30-minute window.