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• Analytics Rules Detect Autogen Studio Agent Tool Execution Anomaly

  AutoGen Studio-hosted AI agent taking code-execution or sensitive-tool actions outside its baseline set — the 'AutoJack' agent-abuse shape.

• Analytics Rules Detect Excel Xll Addin Spawning Shell Or Network

  Excel loading an XLL add-in that then spawns a shell or beacons out — the spreadsheet-as-shell malware delivery vector.

• Analytics Rules Detect Peoplesoft Process Spawning Unexpected Shell

  Oracle PeopleSoft server processes (psadmin, psappsrv, java) spawning cmd, bash, whoami, curl, or net — post-exploitation shape of a PeopleSoft RCE.

• Analytics Rules Detect Remote Shell Command Arrival Over Wire

  Shell command that arrived over the network — outbound-then-inbound-executed script pattern uncommon in legitimate remote code execution.

• Analytics Rules Detect Sharepoint Toolshell Rce Encoded Command

  SharePoint ToolShell RCE: encoded PowerShell arriving via SharePoint worker processes. Multi-token needles (`certutil -decode`) need `contains`, not `has_any`.

• Hunting Hunt Encoded Command Usage Across Fleet Time Baseline

  Encoded-command executions correlated across the fleet against a rolling per-host time baseline. TimeBucket alone as the join key — deliberately no DeviceId.

• Hunting Hunt Npm Postinstall Config Modification No User Context

  npm postinstall/lifecycle scripts that modified config without a corresponding interactive user command — AsyncAPI-shaped supply-chain compromise.

• Hunting Hunt Npm Postinstall Grandchild Network Payload

  npm supply-chain worms where the payload runs two process generations down — 'sins of the grandfather' shape. Traces npm → sh -c → curl.