Dropping Payload via certutil

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BazaCall campaign tricks users into calling a fake customer support center, and download a malicious Excel file which contains a macro to infect users' device with BazaLoader. This query searches for a copy of certutil.exe used by the macro.

Attribute Value
Type Hunting Query
Solution Microsoft Defender XDR
ID 4d11f63f-5b64-416e-8d77-266e4c6d382e
Tactics InitialAccess, DefenseEvasion
Required Connectors MicrosoftThreatProtection
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Tables Used

This content item queries data from the following tables:

Table Selection Criteria Transformations Ingestion API Lake-Only
DeviceFileEvents InitiatingProcessFileName != "certutil.exe"
InitiatingProcessFileName != "cmd.exe"
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