Malicious Lazarus DLL Side-Loading via PresentationHost from Non-Standard Path (via process_creation)

ATT&CK techniques

Execution → Defense Evasion

Recon
Resource Dev
Initial Access
Execution
- T1574.001DLL
Persistence
- T1574.001DLL
Priv Esc
- T1574.001DLL
Defense Evasion
- T1574.001DLL
Cred Access
Discovery
Lateral Movement
Collection
C2
Exfiltration
Impact

What it detects

This rule detects the signed Microsoft binary PresentationHost.exe executing from a location outside System32 or SysWOW64, the DLL side-loading vector used by Lazarus to load a malicious mscoree.dll from C ProgramShared in the trojanized coding-challenge campaign. Running this LOLBin from a writable path indicates a side-loading launch of the group's implant.

Reporting behind it

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