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233 detections

This rule detects potentially malicious activity where multiple critical processes (such as database engines or email clients) are terminated in a short time frame, correlated with a high volume of file creation or modification events on the same device. This behavior is indicative of destructive activity, such as ransomware encrypting data stores or disabling defensive software.
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Arnold Chan@slaz
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Hunters
2 months ago
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This rule detects potentially malicious activity where multiple critical processes (such as database engines or email clients) are terminated in a short time frame, correlated with a high volume of file creation or modification events on the same device. This behavior is indicative of destructive activity, such as ransomware encrypting data stores or disabling defensive software.
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Arnold Chan@slaz
Defender - KQL
2 months ago
203
Detects command-line execution containing 'Processes.KillRunningProcesses', a string characteristic of the OpnKey ransomware builder configuration, suggesting an intent to terminate critical processes to facilitate encryption.
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Subhankar H@Andrewsec57
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Detections.ai Community
1 month ago
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This rule detects potentially malicious activity involving the manipulation of Windows services using 'sc.exe' to stop or delete services, combined with the forceful termination of 'svchost.exe' processes via 'wmic.exe'. This pattern is often associated with adversaries attempting to disable security tools, logging agents, or other defensive mechanisms on an endpoint.
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Arnold Chan@slaz
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Detection & Hunting Community
2 months ago
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This rule detects potentially malicious activity involving the manipulation of Windows services using 'sc.exe' to stop or delete services, combined with the forceful termination of 'svchost.exe' processes via 'wmic.exe'. This pattern is often associated with adversaries attempting to disable security tools, logging agents, or other defensive mechanisms on an endpoint.
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Arnold Chan@slaz
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Detections.ai Community
2 months ago
002
This rule detects potentially malicious activity where multiple critical processes (such as database engines or email clients) are terminated in a short time frame, correlated with a high volume of file creation or modification events on the same device. This behavior is indicative of destructive activity, such as ransomware encrypting data stores or disabling defensive software.
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Arnold Chan@slaz
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Midnight Slayer
2 months ago
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This rule detects potentially malicious activity where multiple critical processes (such as database engines or email clients) are terminated in a short time frame, correlated with a high volume of file creation or modification events on the same device. This behavior is indicative of destructive activity, such as ransomware encrypting data stores or disabling defensive software.
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Arnold Chan@slaz
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Detection & Hunting Community
2 months ago
001
This rule detects potentially malicious activity involving the manipulation of Windows services using 'sc.exe' to stop or delete services, combined with the forceful termination of 'svchost.exe' processes via 'wmic.exe'. This pattern is often associated with adversaries attempting to disable security tools, logging agents, or other defensive mechanisms on an endpoint.
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Arnold Chan@slaz
Defender - KQL
2 months ago
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Detects the use of the sc.exe utility to disable critical system, security, and database services, a technique commonly associated with Everest ransomware to prevent service restart during encryption activities.
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Tim Peck@timpeck
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Detections.ai Community
2 months ago
15017
Detects the execution of various command-line tools (sc, net, powershell, wmic, taskkill, systemctl, launchctl) used to stop or disable system services. This behavior is often associated with adversaries attempting to stop security services, backup agents, or other critical infrastructure for impact, defense evasion, or prior to data destruction.
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Shadows VMB@Vemorian_Mort
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Detections.ai Community
2 months ago
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This rule detects potential adversary activity aimed at disabling security tools, critical infrastructure services, or cloud synchronization agents. It monitors for a high volume (6 or more) of process termination commands (e.g., taskkill, net stop) or registry-based service disabling (Start value 4) targeting a predefined list of security and critical system services within a 3-minute window, which is indicative of an attempt to blind security monitoring or disrupt system availability.
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Ankit Mehta@Secvyn
Bharat Cyber Guardians
3 months ago
005
This rule detects potential adversary activity aimed at disabling security tools, critical infrastructure services, or cloud synchronization agents. It monitors for a high volume (6 or more) of process termination commands (e.g., taskkill, net stop) or registry-based service disabling (Start value 4) targeting a predefined list of security and critical system services within a 3-minute window, which is indicative of an attempt to blind security monitoring or disrupt system availability.
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Ankit Mehta@Secvyn
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Detections.ai Community
3 months ago
401
Detects the CylindricalCanine/GoldenEyeDog credential-theft pattern where the malware first kills a running browser or chat client (Chrome.exe, firefox.exe, skype.exe, 360se.exe, 360chrome.exe, QQBrowser.exe) and then, within a short window, reads/creates the associated credential/profile files (Login Data, avBackup.dat, FormData3.dat, historyUrl3.db, history3.db) on the same device.
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Ethan Andrews@eandrews
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Federal Signal Detections
3 months ago
11015
Detects the use of PowerShell or administrative command-line tools (net, sc) to enumerate and forcefully stop critical backup, database, and virtualization services. This behavior is commonly observed in ransomware attacks where adversaries disable security-critical or data-hosting services prior to encryption to ensure file locks are released and backups are incapacitated.
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Ethan Andrews@eandrews
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Federal Signal Detections
3 months ago
7012
Detects the use of the GigaWiper malware's internal GRATProcessManagerMain module to perform process manipulation operations, such as creating, suspending, resuming, or killing processes, via command-line arguments.
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Duo Tech@duotech
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Detections.ai Community
3 months ago
101
Detects the use of the GigaWiper malware's internal GRATProcessManagerMain module to perform process manipulation operations, such as creating, suspending, resuming, or killing processes, via command-line arguments.
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Duo Tech@duotech
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Detections.ai Community
3 months ago
101
Detects the use of the GigaWiper malware's internal GRATProcessManagerMain module to perform process manipulation operations, such as creating, suspending, resuming, or killing processes, via command-line arguments.
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Duo Tech@duotech
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Detections.ai Community
3 months ago
001
Detects the execution chain associated with the CrySome RAT, which terminates common web browsers (Chrome, Edge, Brave), drops a malicious DLL ('abe_decrypt.dll') into a temporary directory, and subsequently restarts the browser to facilitate credential theft.
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Ethan Andrews@eandrews
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Federal Signal Detections
4 months ago
608
Detects the use of system utilities (net.exe, net1.exe, taskkill.exe, sc.exe) to stop five or more services identified as security, backup, or database software. This behavior is indicative of an adversary attempting to disable security monitoring and backup recovery tools, a common precursor to ransomware encryption.
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Duo Tech@duotech
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Detections.ai Community
4 months ago
302
Detects the mass termination of processes related to productivity suites (Office, Thunderbird), database management (SQL, Oracle, MySQL, Postgres), system backups (VSS), and security monitoring/analysis tools (Task Manager, Wireshark, Process Explorer/Monitor). This activity is highly suspicious and may indicate an attacker attempting to disrupt services, hinder analysis, or prepare a host for destructive activities like data encryption or deletion.
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Subhankar H@Andrewsec57
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Detections.ai Community
4 months ago
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Detects the use of taskkill.exe with the force flag (/f) to terminate critical system processes like explorer.exe, or common security and administrative tools such as task manager, registry editor, process hacker, or antivirus software. This activity is often associated with malicious actors attempting to impair security controls or evade detection.
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Subhankar H@Andrewsec57
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Detections.ai Community
4 months ago
002
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