Windows

Forfiles.exeForfiles.exe

Platform
Windows
Abuse functions
2
Mapped techniques
2

Description

Forfiles.exe is a Windows living-off-the-land binary catalogued by the LOLBAS Project. Documented abuse functions: Execute, ADS. Mapped ATT&CK techniques (per LOLBAS / GTFOBins → MITRE crosswalk): T1218, T1564.004. Defenders should monitor execution of Forfiles.exe under non-administrative or sudo contexts and alert when its arguments match the abuse-function signatures.

Abuse functions· 2

ExecuteT1202

Use forfiles to start a new process to evade defensive counter measures

Use forfiles to start a new process from a binary hidden in an alternate data stream

MITRE ATT&CK techniques· 2

T1202T1564.004

Uses2

TypeTargetConfidenceTier
SubTechniqueNTFS File Attributest1564.004100%live
TechniqueIndirect Command Executiont1202100%live

Abuses2

TypeTargetConfidenceTier
SubTechniqueNTFS File Attributest1564.00490%live
TechniqueSystem Binary Proxy Executiont121885%live

Related by meaning· 6

Nearest entities by semantic similarity across the cs-graph corpus.

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Sourced from LOLBAS Project. Curated by Adam Lundqvist, SQUR.