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New EXE deployed via Default Domain or Default Domain Controller Policies (ASIM Version)

Description

'This detection highlights executables deployed to hosts via either the Default Domain or Default Domain Controller Policies. These policies apply to all hosts or Domain Controllers and best practice is that these policies should not be used for deployment of files. A threat actor may use these policies to deploy files or scripts to all hosts in a domain. This query uses the ASIM parsers and will need them deployed before usage - https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/sentinel/normalization'
Rule type
Scheduled
Version
1.0.5
Query frequency
1d
Query period
14d
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 known_processes = (
  imProcess
  // Change these values if adjusting Query Frequency or Query Period
  | where TimeGenerated between(ago(14d)..ago(1d))
  | where Process has_any ("Policies\\{6AC1786C-016F-11D2-945F-00C04fB984F9}", "Policies\\{31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9}")
  | summarize by Process);
  imProcess
  // Change these values if adjusting Query Frequency or Query Period
  | where TimeGenerated > ago(1d)
  | where Process has_any ("Policies\\{6AC1786C-016F-11D2-945F-00C04fB984F9}", "Policies\\{31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9}")
  | where Process !in (known_processes)
  | summarize FirstSeen=min(TimeGenerated), LastSeen=max(TimeGenerated) by Process, CommandLine, DvcHostname
  | extend HostName = tostring(split(DvcHostname, ".")[0]), DomainIndex = toint(indexof(DvcHostname, '.'))
  | extend HostNameDomain = iff(DomainIndex != -1, substring(DvcHostname, DomainIndex + 1), DvcHostname)
  | project-away DomainIndex

Declared entities

Host

Related content

Links established from declared identifiers and solution manifests.

Source provenance

GitHub

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Source identifier
0dd2a343-4bf9-4c93-a547-adf3658ddaec
Additional source files 1Detections/ASimProcess/NewEXEdeployedviaDefaultDomainorDefaultDomainControllerPolicies(ASIMVersion).yamlsource ↗
GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING

Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC

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