Sideloading DLLs with Signed Microsoft Updaters

Ibrahim Saud@tektrix

•updated Jun 20, 2026•0•0•3

This rule broadly hunts for instances where legitimate Microsoft update binaries (like mobsync.exe, w3wp.exe, certutil.exe, or svchost.exe) load unknown DLLs from non-standard directories, indicating potential DLL sideloading.