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Base64 encoded Windows process command-lines (Normalized Process Events)
Description
'Identifies instances of a base64 encoded PE file header seen in the process command line parameter.
To use this analytics rule, make sure you have deployed the [ASIM normalization parsers](https://aka.ms/ASimProcessEvent)'
- Rule type
- Scheduled
- Version
- 1.1.4
- Query frequency
- 1d
- Query period
- 1d
- Trigger
- gt 0
Declared MITRE coverage
KQL query
Original query, unchanged.
imProcessCreate
| where CommandLine contains "TVqQAAMAAAAEAAA"
| where isnotempty(Process)
| summarize StartTime = min(TimeGenerated), EndTime = max(TimeGenerated), count() by Dvc, ActorUsername, Process, CommandLine, ActingProcessName, EventVendor, EventProduct
| extend AccountName = tostring(split(ActorUsername, @'\')[1]), AccountNTDomain = tostring(split(ActorUsername, @'\')[0])
| extend HostName = tostring(split(Dvc, ".")[0]), DomainIndex = toint(indexof(Dvc, '.'))
| extend HostNameDomain = iff(DomainIndex != -1, substring(Dvc, DomainIndex + 1), Dvc)
| project-away DomainIndex
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
f8b3c49c-4087-499b-920f-0dcfaff0cbca
Additional source files 1
Detections/ASimProcess/imProcess_base64_encoded_pefile.yamlsource ↗GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING
Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC