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Serpent Backdoor

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2022-03-21Latest
Summary

Serpent Backdoor is tracked here as a malware family or toolset with 1 Sigma detection spanning 2022. Coverage centers on windows / process_creation.

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Serpent Backdoor Payload Execution Via Scheduled Task

Detects post exploitation execution technique of the Serpent backdoor. According to Proofpoint, one of the commands that the backdoor ran was via creating a temporary scheduled task using an unusual method. It creates a fictitious windows event and a trigger in which once the event is created, it executes the payload.

windowsprocess_creation
2022-03-21
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