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Sdelete deployed via GPO and run recursively
Description
'This query looks for the Sdelete process being run recursively after being deployed to a host via GPO. Attackers could use this technique to deploy Sdelete to multiple host and delete data on them.'
- Rule type
- Scheduled
- Version
- 1.0.2
- Declared status
- Available
- 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.
SecurityEvent
| where EventID == 4688
| where Process =~ "svchost.exe"
| where CommandLine has "-k GPSvcGroup" or CommandLine has "-s gpsvc"
| extend timekey = bin(TimeGenerated, 1m)
| project timekey, NewProcessId, Computer
| join kind=inner (SecurityEvent
| where EventID == 4688
| where Process =~ "sdelete.exe" or CommandLine has "sdelete"
| where ParentProcessName endswith "svchost.exe"
| where CommandLine has_all ("-s", "-r")
| extend newProcess = Process
| extend timekey = bin(TimeGenerated, 1m)
) on $left.NewProcessId == $right.ProcessId, timekey, Computer
| extend HostName = tostring(split(Computer, ".")[0]), DomainIndex = toint(indexof(Computer, '.'))
| extend HostNameDomain = iff(DomainIndex != -1, substring(Computer, DomainIndex + 1), Computer)
| extend AccountName = tostring(split(TargetAccount, @'\')[1]), AccountNTDomain = tostring(split(TargetAccount, @'\')[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
d9f28fdf-abc8-4f1a-a7e7-1aaec87a2fc5
Additional source files 3
Solutions/Windows Security Events/Analytic Rules/SdeletedeployedviaGPOandrunrecursively.yamlsource ↗Detections/SecurityEvent/SdeletedeployedviaGPOandrunrecursively.yamlmigration-note ↗Solutions/Windows Security Events/Data/Solution_Windows Security Events.jsonsolution-membership ↗GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING
Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC