title: PowerShell DownloadFile author: Florian Roth date: 2020/08/28 description: Detects the execution of powershell, a WebClient object creation and the invocation of DownloadFile in a single command line detection: SELECTION_1: EventID: 1 SELECTION_2: CommandLine: '*powershell*' SELECTION_3: CommandLine: '*.DownloadFile*' SELECTION_4: CommandLine: '*System.Net.WebClient*' condition: (SELECTION_1 and SELECTION_2 and SELECTION_3 and SELECTION_4) falsepositives: - Unknown id: 8f70ac5f-1f6f-4f8e-b454-db19561216c5 level: high logsource: category: process_creation product: windows references: - https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2020/03/apt41-initiates-global-intrusion-campaign-using-multiple-exploits.html status: experimental tags: - attack.execution - attack.t1059.001 - attack.t1086 - attack.command_and_control - attack.t1104 - attack.t1105 ruletype: SIGMA