Description
'Identifies callouts to Discord CDN addresses for risky file extensions. This detection will trigger when a callout for a risky file is made to a discord server that has only been seen once in your environment. Unique discord servers are identified using the server ID that is included in the request URL (DiscordServerId in query). Discord CDN has been used in multiple campaigns to download additional payloads'
- Rule type
- Scheduled
- Version
- 1.0.4
- Declared status
- Available
- Query frequency
- 1d
- Query period
- 1d
- Trigger
- gt 0
Declared MITRE coverage
Declared sources
Metadata from the source file. No dependencies inferred from KQL.
Connectors
Data types
KQL query
Original query, unchanged.
let connectionThreshold = 1;
let riskyExtensions = dynamic([".bin",".exe",".dll",".bin",".msi"]);
CommonSecurityLog
| where DeviceVendor =~ "ZScaler"
| where RequestURL has_any("media.discordapp.net", "cdn.discordapp.com")
| where RequestURL has "attachments"
| where DeviceAction !~ "blocked"
| extend DiscordServerId = extract(@"\/attachments\/([0-9]+)\/", 1, RequestURL)
| summarize dcount(RequestURL), make_set(SourceUserName), make_set(SourceIP), make_set(RequestURL), min(TimeGenerated), max(TimeGenerated), make_set(DeviceAction) by DiscordServerId, DeviceProduct
| where dcount_RequestURL <= connectionThreshold
| mv-expand set_SourceUserName to typeof(string), set_RequestURL to typeof(string), set_DeviceAction to typeof(string), set_SourceIP to typeof(string)
| summarize by DiscordServerId, DeviceProduct, dcount_RequestURL, set_SourceUserName, min_TimeGenerated, max_TimeGenerated, set_DeviceAction, set_SourceIP, set_RequestURL
| project StartTime=min_TimeGenerated, EndTime=max_TimeGenerated, DeviceActionTaken=set_DeviceAction, DeviceProduct, SourceUser=set_SourceUserName, SourceIP=set_SourceIP, RequestURL=set_RequestURL
| where RequestURL has_any (riskyExtensions)
Declared entities
Related content
Links established from declared identifiers and solution manifests.
Source provenance
GitHubDisplayed values come from files in Azure/Azure-Sentinel. They describe the published template, not your workspace configuration.
- Commit
9800e51↗- Source identifier
010bd98c-a6be-498c-bdcd-502308c0fdae
Additional source files 1
Solutions/Zscaler Internet Access/Analytic Rules/DiscordCDNRiskyDownload.yamlsource ↗GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING
Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC