Bitsadmin Activity

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Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) is a way to reliably download files from webservers or SMB servers. This service is commonly used for legitimate purposes, but can also be used as part of a malware downloader. Additionally, bitsadmin can be used to upload files and therefore can be used for data exfiltration. This query will identify use of bitsadmin.exe for either purpose and will identify directionality file transfer directionality.

Attribute Value
Type Analytic Rule
Solution Microsoft Defender XDR
ID 2a1dc4c2-a8d6-4a0e-8539-9b971c851195
Severity Medium
Status Available
Kind Scheduled
Tactics Persistence, CommandAndControl, Exfiltration
Techniques T1197, T1105, T1048
Required Connectors MicrosoftThreatProtection
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Tables Used

This content item queries data from the following tables:

Table Transformations Ingestion API Lake-Only
DeviceProcessEvents ?

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