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# Suspicious PowerShell Enumeration of Running Processes

### Synopsis

| Field                | Value                     |
| -------------------- | ------------------------- |
| Activation Period    | 14 Days                   |
| Training Period      | 30 Days                   |
| Test Period          | N/A (single event)        |
| Deduplication Period | 1 Day                     |
| Required Data        | XDR Agent                 |
| ATT\&CK Tactic       | Discovery (TA0007)        |
| ATT\&CK Technique    | Process Discovery (T1057) |
| Severity             | Informational             |

### Description

Attackers often enumerate running processes to find and disable security tools.

### Attacker's Goals

Understand the type of host according to the processes running on it; find and disable security tools.

### Investigative actions

Verify whether the command that was executed is benign or normal for the host and/or user performing it (for example, it may be an IT script).


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