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Windows host username encoded in base64 web request
Description
'This detection will identify network requests in HTTP proxy data that contains Base64 encoded usernames from machines in the DeviceEvents table.
This technique was seen usee by POLONIUM in their RunningRAT tool.'
- Rule type
- Scheduled
- Version
- 1.0.1
- 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 accountLookback = 3d;
let requestLookback = 3d;
let extraction_regex = @"(?:\?|&)[a-zA-Z0-9\%]*=([a-zA-Z0-9\/\+\=]*)";
// Collect account names and base64 encode them
DeviceEvents
| where TimeGenerated > ago(accountLookback)
| summarize make_set(DeviceId), make_set(DeviceName) by InitiatingProcessAccountName
| where isnotempty(InitiatingProcessAccountName)
| extend base64_user = base64_encode_tostring(InitiatingProcessAccountName)
| join (
// Collect requests and extract base64 parameters
CommonSecurityLog
| where TimeGenerated > ago(requestLookback)
| where isnotempty(RequestURL)
// Summarize early on the RequestURL
| summarize FirstRequest=min(TimeGenerated), LastRequest=max(TimeGenerated), NumberOfRequests=count() by RequestURL
| extend base64_candidate = extract_all(extraction_regex, RequestURL)
| mv-expand base64_candidate to typeof(string)
) on $left.base64_user == $right.base64_candidate
| project FirstRequest, LastRequest, NumberOfRequests, RequestURL, DeviceIds=set_DeviceId, DeviceNames=set_DeviceName, UserName=InitiatingProcessAccountName
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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
9800e51↗- Source identifier
6e715730-82c0-496c-983b-7a20c4590bd9
Additional source files 1
Detections/MultipleDataSources/B64UserInWebURIFromMDE.yamlsource ↗GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING
Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC