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Microsoft and Malwarebytes Boost PUP Detection
The term Potentially Unwanted Programs, or PUPs, is often used to describe software installed on somebody's computer without the owner's specific and direct approval. Many legally-registered software development companies engage in…
Many legally-registered software development companies engage in "bundling," mainly because they earn a nice profit by packaging another company's software (PUPs) with their legitimate apps.
Detecting software as PUP comes with a financial and legal cost
For years, antivirus vendors have fought to blacklist PUPs, marking specific software as dangerous inside their security products. The makers of those programs didn't sit idly, and for years, have sued antivirus vendors whenever their software received the label of "PUP" or "adware" in AV products.
Nevertheless, security firms fought back in all lawsuits and continued to mark PUP software as dangerous, despite the rising costs of mounting a legal defense against these scumbag developers.
Because of their work, PUP makers, who are o...
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title: Detect Exploitation - Microsoft and Malwarebytes Boost PUP Detection
id: fe855b57-91af-4f42-93f5-7fa316bbbd63
status: experimental
description: Automatisch generierte SIEM-Erkennungsregel basierend auf CTI Intelligence
references:
- https://tsecurity.de/
author: iShareStuff CTI Automated Detection Engine
date: 2026-09-25
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 = "2026-09-25"
description = "YARA Signature for "
strings:
$str = "Microsoft and Malwarebytes Boo" ascii wide
condition:
any of them
}index=security sourcetype IN ("cisco:asa", "pan:traffic", "zeek_conn", "suricata", "WinEventLog:Security")
("Microsoft and Malwarebytes Boost PUP Det")
| 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: "*Microsoft and Malwarebytes Boost PUP Det*"CommonSecurityLog
| where Message has "Microsoft and Malwarebytes Boost PUP Det"
| summarize EventCount = count(), FirstSeen = min(TimeGenerated), LastSeen = max(TimeGenerated) by SourceIP, DestinationIP, DestinationPort, Activity
| extend DetectionRule = "iShareStuff-CTI-Compiled"
| sort by EventCount desc2. Cyber Threat Intelligence & Forensik
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