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Suspicious Octo Tempest Domain and Network Reconnaissance Tooling (via process_creation)

PremiumReviewedSigma · Medium · v1
Product
windows
Category
process_creation
Author
HuntRule
Published
2026-06-24
Updated
2026-08-28
AnalysisDetection

ATT&CK techniques

Discovery

  1. Recon

  2. Resource Dev

  3. Initial Access

  4. Execution

  5. Persistence

  6. Priv Esc

  7. Defense Evasion

  8. Cred Access

  9. Discovery

  10. Lateral Movement

  11. Collection

  12. C2

  13. Exfiltration

  14. Impact

What it detects

This rule detects execution of reconnaissance utilities such as PingCastle ADRecon and Advanced IP Scanner. Octo Tempest ran these tools to map Active Directory and the internal network for lateral movement and targeting.

Reporting behind it

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