SPECTRALVIPER XGU LateralMovement Token Impersonation via StealToken/MakeToken

Ibrahim Saud@tektrix

•updated Jun 30, 2026•0•0•1

This rule detects potential lateral movement and privilege escalation activity associated with the SPECTRALVIPER framework. It identifies suspicious process launch events where method names indicative of token manipulation (e.g., StealToken, MakeToken, Impersonate_ThisThread) are present in the command line, or where the OneDrive Sync Service process is used as an indicator of this specific activity.