Ceplin Command Identifier

Identifier / Programs / Windows

dotnet-counters.exe

LOLBAS Execute 1 ATT&CK technique 1 documented command

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

How dotnet-counters.exe is abused

documented by LOLBAS

Execute T1127 Trusted Developer Utilities Proxy Execution

collect

--duration

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

1 documented command

from LOLBAS, each read by the identifier

Execute T1127 Trusted Developer Utilities Proxy Execution User privileges

Launches the specified executable as a child process while collecting performance counter data for 1 second.

dotnet-counters.exe collect --duration 1 -- {PATH:.exe}
Identify

The command the identifier reads trips no Sigma process-creation rule. These commands and their descriptions are from LOLBAS’s entry for dotnet-counters.exe, by Iván Cabrera, 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 dotnet-counters.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
T1127Trusted Developer Utilities Proxy Execution