Terms of Service

You are granted a non-exclusive, revocable, royalty-free license to access LOLPulse and utilize its documentation and generated detection signatures for:

• Defensive Security Operations: Triaging security alerts, investigating suspicious command lines, and hunting for unauthorized activity in your organization or client environments with proper authorization.
• SIEM & EDR Detection Engineering: Implementing, customizing, and maintaining KQL queries in Microsoft Sentinel/Defender, Sigma rules in SigmaHQ repositories, and SPL searches in Splunk Enterprise Security.
• Authorized Testing & Simulation: Verifying security controls, EDR telemetry pipeline coverage, and detection efficacy in isolated lab environments or against systems where you have explicit, written authorization.
• Academic & Threat Intelligence Research: Analyzing Living-off-the-Land techniques and citing LOLPulse in non-commercial or academic research papers.

You expressly agree that you shall NOT use LOLPulse or any information extracted from it to:

• Engage in unauthorized system access, cyber attacks, data theft, ransomware deployment, or malicious exploitation against any third-party infrastructure.
• Bypass legal or authorized scope limits during security assessments without explicit written authorization from the system owner.
• Distribute automated denial-of-service traffic, perform destructive scraping that degrades service availability, or attempt unauthorized circumvention of platform infrastructure.

Living-off-the-Land Binaries, Scripts, and Libraries (LOLBins, LOLBAS, GTFOBins, LOOBins) are legitimate, pre-installed utilities native to Windows (e.g. certutil.exe, mshta.exe, rundll32.exe), Linux (e.g. find, awk, bash), and macOS (e.g. osascript, launchctl).

Because these utilities are trusted components of the operating system, benign administrators use them daily for routine deployment, maintenance, and scripting. LOLPulse documents the techniques adversaries use to co-opt this legitimate functionality, alongside specific behavioral attributes that distinguish malicious misuse from normal administrative baseline activity.

Operating system environments, enterprise software baselines, and administrative scripts vary dramatically across organizations. A detection query that catches adversary execution in one environment may generate benign false positives in another.

Mandatory Testing Practice: Detection engineers must test, tune, and benchmark all generated detection queries in a non-production, audit-only, or staging environment to assess false-positive rates and query ingestion costs before enabling automated alerts, blocking actions, or high-priority incident triggers.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, neither LOLPulse, its curator Sharon Ben Moshe, nor any contributors shall be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or exemplary damages—including but not limited to loss of data, business interruption, alert fatigue, false positives, false negatives, or security breaches—arising from the use of or inability to use this platform, its content, or its generated detection signatures.

LOLPulse stands on the shoulders of the open cybersecurity research ecosystem:

• Upstream Open Datasets: Upstream binary catalogs are maintained by open-source community contributors via the LOLBAS Project, GTFOBins, and LOOBins.
• MITRE ATT&CK®: MITRE ATT&CK is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. All technique descriptions and taxonomy references are used under open educational fair use.
• LOLPulse Platform & Heuristics: The unified cross-platform taxonomy, live command deobfuscation tokenizer, process lineage modeling, and dynamic tri-SIEM rule synthesis engines are created and curated by Sharon Ben Moshe.