Ceplin Command Identifier

Identifier / Programs / Windows

rcsi.exe

LOLBAS Execute, AWL Bypass 1 Sigma rule name it 1 ATT&CK technique 2 documented commands

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

How rcsi.exe is abused

documented by LOLBAS

Execute T1127 Trusted Developer Utilities Proxy Execution

AWL Bypass 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 rcsi.exe.

2 documented commands

from LOLBAS, each read by the identifier

Execute T1127 Trusted Developer Utilities Proxy Execution User privileges

Use embedded C# within the csx script to execute the code.

rcsi.exe {PATH:.csx}
Identify

AWL Bypass T1127 Trusted Developer Utilities Proxy Execution User privileges

Use embedded C# within the csx script to execute the code.

rcsi.exe {PATH:.csx}
Identify

None of the 2 commands the identifier reads trips a Sigma process-creation rule. These commands and their descriptions are from LOLBAS’s entry for rcsi.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 rcsi.exe. The identifier reads each 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
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