Suspicious SimpleHelp Remote Access Client Spawning Discovery Commands (via process_creation)

ATT&CK techniques

Discovery → Lateral Movement

Recon
Resource Dev
Initial Access
Execution
Persistence
Priv Esc
Defense Evasion
Cred Access
Discovery
- T1018Remote System Discovery
- T1087Account Discovery
Lateral Movement
- T1021.004SSH
Collection
C2
Exfiltration
Impact

What it detects

This rule detects the SimpleHelp Remote Access client spawning a command shell that runs account and domain enumeration utilities. Following exploitation of SimpleHelp RMM for initial access, operators used the persisted client to run net and nltest reconnaissance.

Reporting behind it

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Suspicious SimpleHelp Remote Access Client Spawning Discovery Commands (via process_creation)

Pivot detection · T1087 · 9 related

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