Qakbot Discovery Activies

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This query searches for injected processes launching discovery activity. Qakbot has been observed leading to ransomware in numerous instances. It looks for discovery commands such as net.exe, whoami.exe, nslookup.exe, netstat.exe, arp.exe, and ping.exe.

Attribute Value
Type Analytic Rule
Solution Microsoft Defender XDR
ID ba9db6b2-3d05-42ae-8aee-3a15bbe29f27
Severity Medium
Status Available
Kind Scheduled
Tactics DefenseEvasion, Discovery, Execution
Techniques T1140, T1010, T1059
Required Connectors MicrosoftThreatProtection
Source View on GitHub

Tables Used

This content item queries data from the following tables:

Table Selection Criteria Transformations Ingestion API Lake-Only
DeviceProcessEvents InitiatingProcessCommandLine endswith "127.0.0.1"
InitiatingProcessCommandLine has "-a"
InitiatingProcessCommandLine has "-nao"
InitiatingProcessCommandLine has "-t"
InitiatingProcessCommandLine has "/all"
InitiatingProcessFileName in "explorer.exe,mobsync.exe"
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