From 88 lines to 1: Detecting DLL hijacking with Elastic Defend

Elastic describes a reconstructed DLL search-order hijacking attack used in a ClickFix campaign that sideloads a malicious mscoree.dll beside a signed Microsoft binary (vb7to8.exe), uses process hollowing to launch an infostealer (Remus), and ships a vulnerable driver to disable EDR; the report provides reverse-engineering details, a NativeAOT proof-of-concept, and explains how Elastic Defend 9.5.0 detects these attacks via a new DLL Hijack:Masquerading enrichment, plus tuning and mitigation guidance.