Detecting DLL Sideloading Attacks When to Use - When investigating potential DLL hijacking in enterprise environments - After EDR alerts on unsigned DLLs loaded by signed applications - When hunting for APT persistence using legitimate application wrappers - During incident response to identify trojanized applications - When threat intel indicates DLL sideloading campaigns targeting specific software Prerequisites - EDR with DLL load monitoring (CrowdStrike, MDE, SentinelOne) - Sysmon Event ID 7 (Image Loaded) with hash verification - Application whitelisting or DLL integrity monitoring - Sof…