Network Connection Initiated Via Notepad.EXE

sigmaDRL-1.1from SigmaHQ/sigma

Detects a network connection that is initiated by the "notepad.exe" process. This might be a sign of process injection from a beacon process or something similar. Notepad rarely initiates a network communication except when printing documents for example.

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fp risk—

forks0

ATT&CK techniques

T1055

rule sourcelocked

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