Suspicious Windows Security Spoofing via pin Executable Writing output.txt via process_creation

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Defense Evasion

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What it detects

This rule detects execution of pin.exe with an output.txt argument. In the rogue RMM campaign this binary spoofs the Windows Security interface while writing harvested data to output.txt, so its presence indicates a fake security prompt used to capture credentials or user input in support of the intrusion.

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Suspicious Windows Security Spoofing via pin Executable Writing output.txt via process_creation

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