Ransomware Series: Lateral Movement via SMB Admin Share and Remote Service Creation

Ibrahim Saud@tektrix

•updated Sep 25, 2026•0•0•1

Detects the creation of a remote service using 'sc.exe' where the executable was recently written to an administrative share (ADMIN$ or C$). This behavior often indicates lateral movement by threat actors deploying malicious binaries as services on remote systems.