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medium advisory

MSBuild Making Network Connections Indicating Potential Defense Evasion

MsBuild.exe making outbound network connections may indicate adversarial activity as attackers leverage MsBuild to execute code and evade detection.

MSBuild defense-evasion command-and-control
2r 2t
medium advisory

MSBuild Making Network Connections

Detection of MsBuild.exe making outbound network connections which may indicate adversarial activity used to execute code and evade detection.

MSBuild defense-evasion windows
2r 2t
medium advisory

MSBuild запускает необычные процессы

Adversaries may exploit MSBuild to execute malicious scripts or compile code, bypassing security controls; this rule detects unusual processes initiated by MSBuild, such as PowerShell or C# compiler, signaling potential misuse for executing unauthorized or harmful actions.

MSBuild +3 defense-evasion execution
2r 3t
medium advisory

Suspicious MSBuild Execution from Scripting Processes

Adversaries may use MSBuild, a legitimate Microsoft tool, to execute malicious code through script interpreters for defense evasion and execution on Windows systems.

MSBuild defense-evasion execution proxy-execution
2r 6t
low advisory

MSBuild Process Injection Detection

The Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) is being abused to perform process injection by creating threads in other processes, a technique used to evade detection and potentially escalate privileges.

MSBuild defense-evasion privilege-escalation process-injection
2r 3t
medium advisory

Microsoft Build Engine Executed After Renaming

Attackers may rename the Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) executable to evade detection and proxy execution of malicious code.

MSBuild defense-evasion execution masquerading
2r 2t
high advisory

Potential Credential Access via MSBuild Loading Credential Management DLLs

The detection rule identifies a potential credential access attempt via the trusted developer utility MSBuild by detecting instances where it loads DLLs associated with Windows credential management, specifically vaultcli.dll or SAMLib.DLL, which is often used for credential dumping.

MSBuild +2 credential-access defense-evasion windows
2r 1t