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[$] Working-set protection for anonymous pages
The kernel's memory-management subsystem goes to great lengths to keep the pages that are actually in use in memory. But sometimes it gets things wrong, leading to reduced performance or, in the worst cases, flat-out thrashing. We may be…
pages that are actually in use in memory. But sometimes it gets things
wrong, leading to reduced performance or, in the worst cases, flat-out
thrashing. We may be about to see a significant improvement, though,
thanks to a
patch set from Joonsoo Kim changing how anonymous pages (those
containing data not backed by files on disk) are managed.
As it turns out, all that had to be done was to make use of some work that
already exists in related parts of the memory-management code.
SOC Incident Playbook: Vulnerability Remediation & Verification
title: Detect Exploitation - [$] Working-set protection for anonymous pages
id: 5ca5ef8b-19a2-4530-80b9-06281d072d29
status: experimental
description: Automatisch generierte SIEM-Erkennungsregel basierend auf CTI Intelligence
references:
- https://tsecurity.de/
author: iShareStuff CTI Automated Detection Engine
date: 2026-09-24
logsource:
category: network_connection
product: any
detection:
selection:
CommandLine|contains:
- 'exploit'
condition: selection
falsepositives:
- Legitime administrative Zugriffe oder Penetrationstests
level: high
tags:
- attack.initial_accessrule CTI_Threat_Indicator {
meta:
author = "iShareStuff CTI Automated Detection Engine"
date = "2026-09-24"
description = "YARA Signature for "
strings:
$str = "[$] Working-set protection for" ascii wide
condition:
any of them
}index=security sourcetype IN ("cisco:asa", "pan:traffic", "zeek_conn", "suricata", "WinEventLog:Security")
("Working-set protection for anonymous pag")
| stats count earliest(_time) as first_seen latest(_time) as last_seen by src_ip, dest_ip, dest_host, signature
| eval first_seen=strftime(first_seen, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"), last_seen=strftime(last_seen, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
| sort - countmessage: "*Working-set protection for anonymous pag*"CommonSecurityLog
| where Message has "Working-set protection for anonymous pag"
| summarize EventCount = count(), FirstSeen = min(TimeGenerated), LastSeen = max(TimeGenerated) by SourceIP, DestinationIP, DestinationPort, Activity
| extend DetectionRule = "iShareStuff-CTI-Compiled"
| sort by EventCount desctsecurity.de Cognitive Threat RAG
Kognitive Analyse für identifizierte Bedrohung: Erhöhte Bedrohungslage im Bereich [$] Working-set protection for anonymous.... Basierend auf 368k Vektor-Korrelationen werden sofortige Isolationsmaßnahmen für betroffene Endpunkte empfohlen.
Netzwerk/Remote-Zugriff ohne Vorauthentifizierung möglich.
- 1. Perimeter-Inspektion: Relevante Portfreigaben und exponierte Endpunkte unverzüglich scannen.
- 2. Patch-Applikation: Hersteller-Hotfix einspielen oder betroffene Daemons in isolierte DMZ-Segmente überführen.
- 3. Telemetrie & EDR-Alerts: Prozessaufrufe und Child-Processes auf anomale Shell-Spawns überwachen.
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