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

Elastic Security LabsAugust 28, 2026Threat Intel

The ClickFix campaign that sideloads a malicious mscoree.dll also ships a driver to kill Elastic Endpoint. We rebuilt that DLL as a NativeAOT library, dropped it beside a signed Microsoft binary, and Elastic Defend 9.5.0 flagged the load.

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

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