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MediumSigmaHQ James Pemberton / @4A616D6573 +4

Usage Of Web Request Commands And Cmdlets

Detects the use of various web request commands with commandline tools and Windows PowerShell cmdlets (including aliases) via CommandLine

Detection logic

Detection requirements

Platform: Windows
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the ATT&CK technique it maps to.
Log source product: windows
Log source category: process_creation

Known benign triggers

Use of Get-Command and Get-Help modules to reference Invoke-WebRequest and Start-BitsTransfer.

References

Links the source published beside this detection. Reference is the link the source wrote, unmodified. Class is decided by this catalogue from the host and path, not stated by the source. Cited by counts published detections citing the same resource, including this one, and the sources beneath it count the repositories this catalogue ingests, which is not the same as independent research.
Reference	Class	Cited by
4sysops.com/archives/use-powershell-to-download-a-file-with-http-https-and-ftp/	Unclassified	2
blog.jourdant.me/post/3-ways-to-download-files-with-powershell	Unclassified	2
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/bitstransfer/add-bitsfile?view=windowsserver2019-ps	Product documentation	Only this detection cites it

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