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hg

Mercurial - a distributed source control management system. Some subcommands such as commit have their own usage documentation. tldr-pages

GTFOBins shell 1 ATT&CK technique 1 documented command

How hg is abused

documented by GTFOBins

shell T1059.004 Command and Scripting Interpreter: Unix Shell

--config

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

1 documented command

from GTFOBins, each read by the identifier

shell unprivileged, with sudo, as SUID

hg --config alias.x='!/bin/sh' x

Identify

The command the identifier reads trips no Sigma process-creation rule. This command is from GTFOBins, at commit acd524623f9c of 2026-05-27, under the GPL-3.0, with no warranty. Changed: Markdown is shown formatted. The source is in lolbas-gtfobins-commands.json.gz, and the full entry is on GTFOBins’s page for hg. The identifier reads the line that runs hg.

What detects it

Sigma process creation rules

T1059.004Command and Scripting Interpreter: Unix Shell

Everyday use

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Create an empty Mercurial repository

hg initIdentify

Clone a remote Mercurial repository from the internet

hg clone https://example.com/repoIdentify

View the status of a local repository

hg statusIdentify

None of the 3 examples the identifier reads matches GTFOBins abuse or trips a Sigma process-creation rule.

hg

How hg is abused

1 documented command

What detects it

Everyday use

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