Potentially Suspicious Wuauclt Network Connection

sigmaDRL-1.1from SigmaHQ/sigma

Detects the use of the Windows Update Client binary (wuauclt.exe) to proxy execute code and making network connections. One could easily make the DLL spawn a new process and inject to it to proxy the network connection and bypass this rule.

quality48

fp risk—

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ATT&CK techniques

T1218

rule sourcelocked

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detection:
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