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PowerShell Decompress Commands

Severity
informational
Author
Roberto Rodriguez (Cyb3rWard0g), OTR (Open Threat Research)
Source
upstream

A General detection for specific decompress commands in PowerShell logs. This could be an adversary decompressing files.

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Defense EvasionT1140 Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
PowerShell4103Payload Context: ContextInfo User Data: UserData.

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection_4103

Payload|contains: Expand-Archive

Indicators

Each row is a field, operator, and value that the rule matches. The corpus column counts how many other rules in the catalog look for the same combination: high numbers point to widely-used, community-vetted indicators. Blank or 1 shows that the indicator is specific to this rule.

FieldKindValues
Payloadmatch
  • Expand-Archive