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Suspicious Self-Delete via cmd choice Timeout and Del

PremiumReviewedSigma · High · v1
Product
windows
Category
process_creation
Author
HuntRule
Published
2026-09-21
Updated
2026-09-21
AnalysisDetection

ATT&CK techniques

Defense Evasion

  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 the cmd choice command used as a timing delay chained with a Del to remove the launching file. Ande Loader used a choice based countdown before deleting itself to erase the dropper after 0bj3ctivity Stealer was staged. This choice plus Del idiom is an anti forensic self cleanup pattern seen across loaders.

Reporting behind it

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