Password Protected Archive Creation

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One common technique leveraged by attackers is using archiving applications to package up files for exfiltration. In many cases, these archives are usually protected with a password to make analysis more difficult. This query identifies applications which leverage a command line pattern which matches the 7zip and WinRAR command line executables to create or update an archive when a password is specified. By detecting based on the command line we can avert attempts to dodge detection by renamin

Attribute Value
Type Hunting Query
Solution GitHub Only
ID 8ec6abaa-de36-4510-86c2-1a1aeeb004ab
Tactics Collection, Exfiltration
Required Connectors MicrosoftThreatProtection
Source View on GitHub

Tables Used

This content item queries data from the following tables:

Table Transformations Ingestion API Lake-Only
DeviceProcessEvents ?

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