Fileless Malware and Living-off-the-Land Binaries (LOLBins)

Attackers and bypassers frequently leverage various scripting languages available on Windows systems instead of traditional compiled executables (.exe). This "Living-off-the-Land" approach uses legitimate interpreters already present on the system to execute malicious or bypass-related code, making detection harder for security solutions focused solely on unknown executables. Common scripting languages abused include PowerShell (.ps1), Batch (.bat), VBScript (.vbs), and less commonly but possibly Python (.py), AutoIt (.au3), or even HTML Applications (.hta).