Attacker Used AI to Build Custom PowerShell Recon Malware
Huntress found an AI-generated PowerShell script used for AD reconnaissance, showing attackers are using AI to create custom, evasive tools. During an incident response investigation on June 3, 2026, Huntress analyst Jevon Ang recovered a PowerShell script from a compromised Windows Server that the attacker had used to map out the victim’s Active Directory environment. […]
During an incident response investigation on June 3, 2026, Huntress analyst Jevon Ang recovered a PowerShell script from a compromised Windows Server that the attacker had used to map out the victim’s Active Directory environment. The script hadn’t been downloaded from a public repository or pulled from a known offensive toolkit. It was custom-built, almost certainly by prompting an AI model until the output worked. Huntress researchers reconstructed the full script from PowerShell script block logging, specifically Event ID 4104 in the Microsoft-Windows-PowerShell/Operational log.
“The script, enthusiastically titled “100% Working AD Information Gathering Script – FULLY FIXED”, is a highly aggressive, noisy, custom-built AD enumeration tool. It doesn’t try to hide its functions, and has a number of distinct and interesting phases.” reads the report published by Huntress.
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