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Suspicious Powershell Scriptedit

A machine learning job detected a PowerShell script with unusual data characteristics, such as obfuscation, that may be a characteristic of malicious PowerShell script text blocks.

Rule type: machine_learning

Machine learning job: windows_anomalous_script

Machine learning anomaly threshold: 50

Severity: low

Risk score: 21

Runs every: 15 minutes

Searches indices from: now-45m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum signals per execution: 100

References:

Tags:

  • Elastic
  • ML
  • Windows

Version: 1

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.7.0

Potential false positivesedit

Certain kinds of security testing may trigger this signal. PowerShell scripts that use high levels of obfuscation or have unusual script block payloads may trigger this signal.

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