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Potential re-named sdelete usage (ASIM Version)
Description
'This detection looks for command line parameters associated with the use of Sysinternals sdelete (https://docs.microsoft.com/sysinternals/downloads/sdelete) to delete multiple files on a host's C drive.
A threat actor may re-name the tool to avoid detection and then use it for destructive attacks on a host.
This detection uses the ASIM imProcess parser, this will need to be deployed before use - https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/sentinel/normalization'
- Rule type
- Scheduled
- Version
- 1.0.6
- Query frequency
- 1h
- Query period
- 1h
- Trigger
- gt 0
Declared MITRE coverage
KQL query
Original query, unchanged.
imProcess
| where CommandLine has_all ("accepteula", "-s", "-r", "-q")
| where Process !endswith "sdelete.exe"
| where CommandLine !has "sdelete"
| extend AccountName = tostring(split(ActorUsername, @'\')[1]), AccountNTDomain = tostring(split(ActorUsername, @'\')[0])
Declared entities
Source provenance
GitHubDisplayed values come from files in Azure/Azure-Sentinel. They describe the published template, not your workspace configuration.
- Commit
9800e51↗- Source identifier
5b6ae038-f66e-4f74-9315-df52fd492be4
Additional source files 1
Detections/ASimProcess/Potentialre-namedsdeleteusage(ASIMVersion).yamlsource ↗GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING
Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC