Netskope Threat Labs

PkexecExploit

ATP Sandbox Adv. HeuristicsAV

This generic detection identifies exploits that abuse the pkexec utility on Linux systems to gain root level privileges.

First seen
June 2022
Last seen
September 2026
Alert Name
Gen:Variant.Trojan.Linux.PkexecExploit.1
Linux.Trojan.PkexecExploit