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Privilege Escalation via Microsoft Exchange DLL Hijacking

Identifies attempts to load a DLL from a hardcoded path by the Microsoft Exchange IIS worker process (w3wp). This may indicate an attempt to elevate privilege via loading a malicious DLL from a path writable by low-privileged users.

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Detection Logic

library where process.name : "w3wp.exe" and dll.path : "D:\\ManagedTools\\cmdlets\\*"

Field Validations

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