Suspicious Remote Payload Staging via curl Piped to Shell (via process_creation)

ATT&CK techniques

C2

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Resource Dev
Initial Access
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Priv Esc
Defense Evasion
Cred Access
Discovery
Lateral Movement
Collection
C2
- T1105Ingress Tool Transfer
Exfiltration
Impact

What it detects

This rule detects curl silently fetching a remote script and piping it directly into a shell, the staging technique used to deploy the SNOWLIGHT loader after SAP NetWeaver exploitation. Downloading and executing remote content in a single pipeline bypasses on-disk inspection. This pattern is a common Linux post-exploitation loader behavior.

Reporting behind it

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