Suspicious Memory Write Patterns (Process Injection)

Ankit Mehta@Secvyn

•updated Jun 17, 2026•0•0•6

This rule detects suspicious command-line activity indicative of process injection techniques. It looks for the presence of API calls like 'VirtualAlloc', 'WriteProcessMemory', and 'CreateRemoteThread' in conjunction with keywords such as '.dll', '.exe', or 'shellcode' within Security Event ID 4688 (a process creation event). A count of two or more such occurrences within an hour for a given computer and user triggers an alert.