Defender investigation reference fragments

Find the Defender Advanced Hunting entry point, file-search fragment and SmartScreen guide. The antimalware item contains a policy link and missing image, not a complete email-investigation query.

Contents – MS Defender

Provides some basics on how to do a few things in Defender.

  • How to unblock a website that is getting blocked by SmartScreen

Unblock URL From Smart Screen

  • How to use some KQL to do some hunting in Defenders Advanced Hunting

Where is Advanced Hunting

In MS Defender

https://security.microsoft.com/v2/advanced-hunting

OR https://security.microsoft.com/ Investigation and Response -> Hunting -> Advanced Hunting

Find Emails Blocked By AntiMalware Policy (HasAttachment)

The Antimalware policy

Email Attachment Blocking

https://security.microsoft.com/antimalwarev2

Image alternative text: web content

Find a File

DeviceFileEvents

| where FileName contains "infatica"

| project Timestamp,ActionType,ProductName = InitiatingProcessVersionInfoProductName, ProcessDescription = InitiatingProcessVersionInfoFileDescription ,ParentFileName = InitiatingProcessParentFileName,ParentProcessCreationTime = InitiatingProcessParentCreationTime,FileName,FolderPath,InitiatingProcessAccountUpn

Email & Collaboration - Explorer

Explorer was previously called ThreatExplorer

You can find it here

https://security.microsoft.com/threatexplorerv3

OR https://security.microsoft.com/ -> Email & Collaboration -> Explorer

In here you can see what URL's people clicked on across various phishing campaigns.