Quick Assist Spawning Discovery And Reconnaissance Commands
Detects Quick Assist spawning command interpreters (cmd.exe, powershell.exe, pwsh.exe) that execute common discovery and reconnaissance commands. This pattern is associated with hands-on-keyboard activity, as documented in campaigns like Nimbus RAT, and broader kill chains used by groups such as Storm-1811, Black Basta affiliates, and 3AM ransomware operators. The rule specifically looks for commands like 'whoami', 'ipconfig', 'systeminfo', 'hostname', 'net time', 'net user', 'net group', 'net localgroup', 'net view', 'nltest', 'qwinsta', 'tasklist', 'arp', 'route', 'netstat', '/domain', 'dsquery', and 'gpresult'.
Microsoft Sentinel (KQL)
