detecting-dll-sideloading-attacks SKILL.md skillA
detecting-dll-sideloading-attacks from adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai/detecting-dll-sideloading-attacks@v1.0Pins v1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai
- Path
cursor-claude-codex/skills/anthropic-cybersecurity-skills/skills/detecting-dll-sideloading-attacks/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v1.0, committed Jun 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 11, 2026
- Size
- 4,187 bytes
- Repository stars
- 69
- License
- MIT
Detect DLL side-loading attacks where adversaries place malicious DLLs.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Detecting DLL Sideloading Attacks ## When to Use - When investigating potential DLL hijacking in enterprise environments - After EDR alerts on unsigned DLLs loaded by signed applications - When hunting for APT persistence using legitimate application wrappers - During incident response to identify trojanized applications - When threat intel indicates DLL sideloading campaigns targeting specific software ## Prerequisites - EDR with DLL load monitoring (CrowdStrike, MDE, SentinelOne) - Sysmon Event ID 7 (Image Loaded) with hash verification - Application whitelisting or DLL integrity monitoring - Software inventory of legitimate applications and expected DLL paths - Code signing verification capabilities ## Workflow 1. **Identify Sideloading Targets**: Research known vulnerable applications that load DLLs without full path qualification (LOLBAS, DLL-sideload databases). 2. **Monitor DLL Load Events**: Query Sysmon Event ID 7 for DLL loads where the DLL path differs from the application's expected directory. 3. **Check DLL Signatures**: Flag unsigned or untrusted DLLs loaded by signed executables. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai/detecting-dll-sideloading-attacks@sha256:9d54193c34a0629cThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_luc67lw4iu36m6nt)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jun 11, 2026 and Jun 25, 2026, about one every 14 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v1.0 latest | 2026-06-25 | f69bd81 | 4,187 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-06-11 | ff4cc7c | 4,133 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4187 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai · 69 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-10 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_luc67lw4iu36m6nt GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai/detecting-dll-sideloading-attacks GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9d54193c34a0629c0bd649b8e039eeaaae72145ae18e5eeebae474ab94a25cbe
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