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📄 The Word document opened clean. Then it spawned PowerShell. That one parent-child pair is how analysts catch ransomware before it encrypts.

Macros still launch PowerShell, and that process chain sits in your Windows logs if you collect the right event. Deploy Sysmon, read event 4688, and hunt the winword to powershell pair that precedes ransomware. Catch it before the files lock. 🛡️

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📄 The Word document opened clean. Then it spawned PowerShell. That one parent-child pair is how analysts catch ransomware before it encrypts.

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