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Network endpoint to host executable correlation
Description
'Correlates blocked URLs hosting [malicious] executables with host endpoint data to identify potential instances of executables of the same name having been recently run.
- Rule type
- Scheduled
- Version
- 1.1.6
- 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 endpointData =
(union isfuzzy=true
(SecurityEvent
| where EventID == 4688
| extend shortFileName = tolower(tostring(split(NewProcessName, '\\')[-1]))
),
(WindowsEvent
| where EventID == 4688
| extend NewProcessName = tostring(EventData.NewProcessName)
| extend shortFileName = tolower(tostring(split(NewProcessName, '\\')[-1]))
| extend TargetUserName = tostring(EventData.TargetUserName)
));
// Correlate suspect executables seen in TrendMicro rule updates with similar activity on endpoints
CommonSecurityLog
| where DeviceVendor =~ "Trend Micro"
| where Activity =~ "Deny List updated"
| where RequestURL endswith ".exe"
| project TimeGenerated, Activity , RequestURL , SourceIP, DestinationIP
| extend suspectExeName = tolower(tostring(split(RequestURL, '/')[-1]))
| join kind=innerunique (endpointData) on $left.suspectExeName == $right.shortFileName
| extend HostName = tostring(split(Computer, '.', 0)[0]), DnsDomain = tostring(strcat_array(array_slice(split(Computer, '.'), 1, -1), '.'))
Declared entities
Related content
Links established from declared identifiers and solution manifests.
Source provenance
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- Commit
9800e51↗- Source identifier
01f64465-b1ef-41ea-a7f5-31553a11ad43
Additional source files 3
Solutions/Network Threat Protection Essentials/Analytic Rules/NetworkEndpointCorrelation.yamlsource ↗Detections/MultipleDataSources/NetworkEndpointCorrelation.yamlmigration-note ↗Solutions/Network Threat Protection Essentials/Data/Solution_NetworkThreatDetection.jsonsolution-membership ↗GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING
Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC