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Windows PowerShell: AtomicTestHarness Invoke-ATHRemoteFXvGPUDisablementCommand Abuse

Alerts on Windows process command lines invoking AtomicTestHarnesses RemoteFXvGPUDisablement PowerShell execution.

FreeReviewedSigma · High · v1
Product
windows
Category
process_creation
Author
frack113 (SigmaHQ), DRL 1.1
Published
2021-07-13
Updated
2026-07-30
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 flags process creation command lines containing the AtomicTestHarnesses function name Invoke-ATHRemoteFXvGPUDisablementCommand (or its truncated variant). The command is associated with abusing RemoteFXvGPUDisablement.exe to execute custom PowerShell via module load-order hijacking. Telemetry relies on Windows process creation events and the exact command-line text used to invoke the harness function.

Reporting behind it

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Windows PowerShell: AtomicTestHarness Invoke-ATHRemoteFXvGPUDisablementCommand Abuse
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Detection content is published as a reviewed draft. Tune thresholds and exclusions against your own telemetry before enabling this rule for alerting.