title: Data Compressed
status: experimental
description: An adversary may compress data (e.g., sensitive documents) that is collected prior to exfiltration in order to make it portable and minimize the amount of data sent over the network
author: Timur Zinniatullin, oscd.community
references:
    - https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1002/
    - https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/master/atomics/T1002/T1002.yaml
logsource:
    product: windows
    service: powershell
    description: 'Script block logging must be enabled'
detection:
    selection:
        EventID: 4104
    keyword: 
        - '*-Recurse | Compress-Archive*'
        - '*-Recurse| Compress-Archive*'
        - '*-Recurse |Compress-Archive*'
        - '*-Recurse|Compress-Archive*'
    condition: selection and keyword
falsepositives:
    - highly likely if archive ops are done via PS
level: low
tags:
    - attack.exfiltration
    - attack.t1002