Triage and hunt using filters

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Use filters to reduce thousands of events to a smaller list of suspicious ones. You can apply filters to any column and combine multiple filters for more specific queries.

  • Hunt for Living-off-the-Land Binaries (LOLBins): Filter the Process Path column for common tools that attackers abuse, such as powershell.exe, cmd.exe, wscript.exe, or mshta.exe.

  • Isolate activity by user: Filter the User column for activity from a specific user account that is under investigation or for processes running as high-privilege accounts like NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM.

  • Find processes in unusual locations: Filter the Process Path to look for executables running from non-standard directories, such as temporary folders (C:\Users\*\AppData\) or download locations.

  • Combine filters for specific results: Create a multi-filter query to isolate highly specific activity. For example, Process Path contains powershell.exe AND User is NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM AND Parent Path is not C:\Windows\System32\services.exe.