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Tim Peck

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916 detections

Detects the IIS worker process (w3wp.exe) spawning a command-line interpreter or reconnaissance tool. This is a common behavior of web shells and in-memory backdoors like IIServerCore, which is part of the NET-STAR malware suite used by the Phantom Taurus APT group.
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Tim Peck@timpeck
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Detections.ai Community
9 months ago
11139
Detects PowerShell processes spawned by Visual Studio Code or Cursor IDEs that use suspicious flags like '-WindowStyle Hidden' and commands typical of download cradles. This behavior is associated with malicious extensions that execute second-stage payloads.
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Tim Peck@timpeck
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Detections.ai Community
9 months ago
70190
Detects attempts to exploit the Apache bRPC heap profiler command injection vulnerability, CVE-2025-60021. This is done by monitoring for HTTP GET requests to the `/pprof/heap` endpoint where the `extra_options` parameter contains shell metacharacters indicative of an RCE attempt.
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Tim Peck@timpeck
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SecOps Signals
9 months ago
1051
Detects a Python process, potentially renamed, injecting code into the InstallUtil.exe utility. This behavior is a known TTP used by a Vietnamese threat actor in PureRAT campaigns, where a Python loader fetches a payload and injects it into a legitimate .NET utility to execute shellcode and evade defenses.
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Tim Peck@timpeck
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Detections.ai Community
9 months ago
1147
Detects network connections to the GitHub API attempting to fetch a 'command.txt' file. This behavior is characteristic of the GITSHELLPAD backdoor, which uses private GitHub repositories for command and control (C2) communication as seen in the Gopher Strike campaign.
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Tim Peck@timpeck
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Detections.ai Community
9 months ago
2057
Detects when the Windows Admin Center service ('SmeSvc.exe') is stopped, and shortly thereafter, a different process starts listening on the WAC port (TCP/6516). This behavior is a key indicator of CVE-2026-20965 exploitation, where an attacker impersonates the service to steal administrator access tokens.
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Tim Peck@timpeck
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SecOps Signals
9 months ago
192203
Detects the execution of Node.js (node.exe) when spawned by PowerShell or the Command Prompt from a user-writable directory. This behavior is characteristic of the Tsundere Bot delivery chain used by threat actors like TA584 (Storm-0900), who use a PowerShell script to install and run the Node.js-based malware.
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Tim Peck@timpeck
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Detections.ai Community
9 months ago
1026
Detects the SmarterMail service process ('MailService.exe') spawning command-line interpreters to execute reconnaissance commands. This behavior is highly indicative of remote code execution following the exploitation of vulnerabilities like CVE-2026-23760.
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Tim Peck@timpeck
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Detections.ai Community
9 months ago
1035
Detects the legitimate Adobe binary 'ADNotificationManager.exe' loading 'urlmon.dll' from a non-system directory. This is a DLL Sideloading technique (T1574.002) used by a Vietnamese Stealer campaign for initial execution.
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Tim Peck@timpeck
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Detections.ai Community
9 months ago
2034
Detects attempts to exploit an authentication bypass vulnerability in the Inetutils Telnet daemon. Attackers inject the '-f' flag into the 'USER' environment variable during Telnet negotiation to gain unauthorized shell access.
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Tim Peck@timpeck
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Detections.ai Community
9 months ago
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