Ceplin Command Identifier

Identifier / Programs / Windows

csi.exe

LOLBAS Execute 2 Sigma rules name it 3 ATT&CK techniques 1 documented command

Opens the identifier with your command. It is read in your browser and sent nowhere.

How csi.exe is abused

documented by LOLBAS

Execute T1127 Trusted Developer Utilities Proxy Execution

Each abuse is LOLBAS's category and the options and words it uses; the full write-up is on LOLBAS's page for csi.exe.

1 documented command

from LOLBAS, each read by the identifier

Execute T1127 Trusted Developer Utilities Proxy Execution User privileges

Use csi.exe to run unsigned C# code.

csi.exe {PATH:.cs}
Identify

The command the identifier reads trips no Sigma process-creation rule. These commands and their descriptions are from LOLBAS’s entry for csi.exe, by Oddvar Moe, at commit 2056cb766250 of 2026-09-26, under the GPL-3.0 and LOLBAS’s notice, with no warranty. Changed: Markdown is shown formatted. The source is in lolbas-gtfobins-commands.json.gz, and the full entry is on LOLBAS’s page for csi.exe. The identifier reads it with LOLBAS’s placeholders filled in: a URL as https://example.com/file, a share as \\192.0.2.10\share\file, a path as C:\Data\file and a command as calc.exe.

What detects it

Sigma process creation rules
mediumSuspicious Csi.exe UsageKonstantin Grishchenko, oscd.community
T1072Software Deployment Tools
T1127Trusted Developer Utilities Proxy Execution
T1218System Binary Proxy Execution