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PowerShell Web Downloads (Operational) page 2025-07-27

References: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 SPL:

index="windows" source IN ("XmlWinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-PowerShell/Operational", "XmlWinEventLog:PowerShellCore/Operational") EventCode=4104 ScriptBlockText IN ("*.Download*", "*Net.WebClient*", "*certutil* -urlcache*", "*certutil* -f*", "*certutil* /f*")
| eval sid_lookup=replace(UserID, "'", "")
| lookup ad_users objectSid AS sid_lookup OUTPUT sAMAccountName AS Username
| eval user_lookup=replace(Username,"^(\w+)_admin","\1")
| lookup ad_users sAMAccountName AS user_lookup OUTPUT displayName AS Name, mail AS Email
| table _time, host, Path, Computer, ScriptBlockText, Username, Name, Company, Department, Email