Powercat Download

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Powercat is a PowerShell implementation of netcat. Whilst it can be used as a legitimate administrative tool it can be abused by attackers to exfiltrate data. This query looks for command line activity downloading PowerCat.

Attribute Value
Type Hunting Query
Solution Windows Security Events
ID c2112ca3-aae0-4079-9bff-d74c54bb5fe5
Tactics Exfiltration
Techniques T1011
Required Connectors SecurityEvents, WindowsSecurityEvents
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Tables Used

This content item queries data from the following tables:

Table Selection Criteria Transformations Ingestion API Lake-Only
SecurityEvent EventID == "4688" ?

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