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The download of potentially risky files from the Discord Content Delivery Network (CDN) (ASIM Web Session)
Description
'This detection mechanism identifies instances where requests are made to Discord CDN addresses for file extensions that are considered risky.
It triggers when a callout is made to a Discord server that has only been encountered once in your environment. The uniqueness of Discord servers is determined based on the server ID present in the request URL (DiscordServerId in the query).
Discord CDN has been utilized in numerous campaigns to download additional payloads, highlighting the importance of monitoring such activities.
The query includes a sample set of popular web script extensions (scriptExtensions), which should be customized to align with the specific requirements of your environment'
- Rule type
- Scheduled
- Version
- 1.0.0
- Declared status
- Available
- Query frequency
- 1d
- Query period
- 1d
- Trigger
- gt 0
Declared MITRE coverage
KQL query
Original query, unchanged.
let lookback = 1d;
let connectionThreshold = 1;
let RiskyFileExtensions = materialize(externaldata(Extensions: string)
[@"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Azure/Azure-Sentinel/master/Sample%20Data/Feeds/RiskyFileExtensionsInUrl.csv"]
with(format="csv", ignoreFirstRecord=True));
let CustomRiskyFileExtensions = (_ASIM_GetWatchlistRaw("Web_RiskyFileExtensions") // Create new Watchlist and add your custom indicators(Optional)
| extend
Extensions = tostring(WatchlistItem["Extensions"])
| project Extensions
| where isnotempty(Extensions));
let CombinedRiskyFileExtensions = union RiskyFileExtensions, CustomRiskyFileExtensions;
let knownRiskyFileExtensions=toscalar(CombinedRiskyFileExtensions
| where isnotempty(Extensions)
| summarize make_set(Extensions, 1000));
let discord=dynamic(["cdn.discordapp.com", "media.discordapp.com"]);
let WebData = _Im_WebSession(starttime=ago(lookback), url_has_any=discord, eventresult='Success')
| where isnotempty(Url)
| project Url, SrcUsername, SrcIpAddr, TimeGenerated, SrcHostname
| where Url has "attachments"
| extend DiscordServerId = extract(@"\/attachments\/([0-9]+)\/", 1, Url);
WebData
| summarize
dcount(Url),
min(TimeGenerated),
max(TimeGenerated)
by DiscordServerId
| join kind=inner (WebData) on DiscordServerId
| where dcount_Url <= connectionThreshold and Url has_any (knownRiskyFileExtensions)
| summarize EventCount = count()
by
EventStartTime=min_TimeGenerated,
EventEndTime=max_TimeGenerated,
SrcUsername,
SrcHostname,
SrcIpAddr,
Url
| extend
Name = iif(SrcUsername contains "@", tostring(split(SrcUsername, '@', 0)[0]), SrcUsername),
UPNSuffix = iif(SrcUsername contains "@", tostring(split(SrcUsername, '@', 1)[0]), "")
Declared entities
Related content
Links established from declared identifiers and solution manifests.
Source provenance
GitHubDisplayed values come from files in Azure/Azure-Sentinel. They describe the published template, not your workspace configuration.
- Commit
9800e51↗- Source identifier
b7fe8f27-7010-404b-aec5-6e5245cea580
GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING
Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC