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Suspicious PowerShell Download - PoshModule

Severity
medium
Author
Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
Source
upstream

Detects suspicious PowerShell download command

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
ExecutionT1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
PowerShell4103Payload Context: ContextInfo User Data: UserData.

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: all of selection_webclient_

ContextInfo|contains: System.Net.WebClient

Stage 2: all of selection_function

or:
ContextInfo|contains: '.DownloadFile('
ContextInfo|contains: '.DownloadString('

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
ContextInfomatch
  • .DownloadFile(
  • .DownloadString(
  • System.Net.WebClient