Unveiling malware behavior trends

This report analyzes ~100,000 Windows malware samples detonated in Elastic's sandbox and maps observed alerts to MITRE ATT&CK to identify the most common tactics and techniques. Key findings show defense evasion (DLL side-loading, process injection, Defender tampering), privilege escalation (token manipulation, UAC bypass, vulnerable drivers), execution via scripting and signed binaries, and common persistence and initial access methods; the report recommends prioritizing detection engineering around these prevalent TTPs.