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Not tracked: Microsoft's signed vshost.exe / vshost32.exe, renamed RuntimeBroker.exe, plus a .exe.config AppDomainManager hijack (with ETW turned off) to load RuntimeBroker.dll and Blackwood.dll. It is .config-based, not search order, so maybe not a HijackLibs fit, but it is worth tracking somewhere.

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Oct 19, 2026 · 18:56 UTC

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Easy hunts: RuntimeBroker.exe running from %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\RuntimeBrokers, or a vshost*.exe with a .config next to it on a box that is not a dev machine. And if your users do not build code, MSBuild does not need to run there.

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