ClickFix Lure Spawning finger.exe or curl.exe via Run Dialog

Ibrahim Saud@tektrix

•updated Sep 19, 2026•0•0•4

Detects the execution of potentially malicious utilities (curl, finger, cmd, powershell) that are launched by the Windows Explorer process (explorer.exe). This pattern is often indicative of malicious activity where an adversary uses legitimate OS processes to spawn command shells or network tools for further exploitation or file retrieval.