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A client made a web request to a potentially harmful file (ASIM Web Session schema)
Description
'This rule identifies a web request to a URL that holds a file type, including .ps1, .bat, .vbs, and .scr that can be harmful if downloaded. This analytic rule uses [ASIM](https://aka.ms/AboutASIM) and supports any built-in or custom source that supports the ASIM WebSession schema (ASIM WebSession Schema)'
- Rule type
- Scheduled
- Version
- 1.1.3
- Query frequency
- 10m
- Query period
- 10m
- 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 default_file_ext_blocklist = dynamic(['.ps1', '.vbs', '.bat', '.scr']); // Update this list as per your requirement
let custom_file_ext_blocklist=toscalar(_GetWatchlist('RiskyFileTypes')
| extend Extension=column_ifexists("Extension", "")
| where isnotempty(Extension)
| summarize make_set(Extension)); // If you have an extensive list, you can also create a Watchlist that includes the file extensions you want to detect
let file_ext_blocklist = array_concat(default_file_ext_blocklist, custom_file_ext_blocklist);
_Im_WebSession(starttime=ago(10min), url_has_any=file_ext_blocklist, eventresult='Success')
| extend requestedFileName=tostring(split(tostring(parse_url(Url)["Path"]), '/')[-1])
| extend requestedFileExtension=extract(@'(\.\w+)$', 1, requestedFileName, typeof(string))
| where requestedFileExtension in (file_ext_blocklist)
| summarize
EventStartTime=min(TimeGenerated),
EventEndTime=max(TimeGenerated),
EventCount=count()
by SrcIpAddr, SrcUsername, SrcHostname, requestedFileName, Url
| extend
Name = iif(SrcUsername contains "@", tostring(split(SrcUsername, '@', 0)[0]), SrcUsername),
UPNSuffix = iif(SrcUsername contains "@", tostring(split(SrcUsername, '@', 1)[0]), "")
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Related content
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Source provenance
GitHubDisplayed values come from files in Azure/Azure-Sentinel. They describe the published template, not your workspace configuration.
- Commit
7ca9800↗- Source identifier
09c49590-4e9d-4da9-a34d-17222d0c9e7e
Additional source files 1
Detections/ASimWebSession/PotentiallyHarmfulFileTypes.yamlsource ↗GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING
Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC