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Gzip Archive Decode Via PowerShell

Severity
medium
Author
Hieu Tran
Source
upstream

Detects attempts of decoding encoded Gzip archives via PowerShell.

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Command & ControlT1132.001 Data Encoding: Standard Encoding

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon1Process creation
Security-Auditing4688A new process has been created.

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

CommandLine|contains: '::Decompress'
CommandLine|contains: GZipStream

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
CommandLinematch
  • ::Decompress
  • GZipStream