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✄𐘗from logs-windows.powershell_operational* metadata _id, _version, _index
| where event.code == "4104" and powershell.file.script_block_text like "*+*"

// replace the patterns we are looking for with the 🔥 emoji to enable counting them
// The emoji is used because it's unlikely to appear in scripts and has a consistent character length of 1
| eval Esql.script_block_tmp = replace(
    powershell.file.script_block_text,
    """[.&]\(\s*(['"][A-Za-z0-9.-]+['"]\s*\+\s*)+['"][A-Za-z0-9.-]+['"]\s*\)""",
    "🔥"
)

// count how many patterns were detected by calculating the number of 🔥 characters inserted
| eval Esql.script_block_pattern_count = length(Esql.script_block_tmp) - length(replace(Esql.script_block_tmp, "🔥", ""))

// keep the fields relevant to the query, although this is not needed as the alert is populated using _id
| keep
    Esql.script_block_pattern_count,
    Esql.script_block_tmp,
    powershell.file.*,
    file.path,
    powershell.sequence,
    powershell.total,
    _id,
    _version,
    _index,
    host.name,
    host.id,
    agent.id,
    user.id

// Filter for scripts that match the pattern at least once
| where Esql.script_block_pattern_count >= 1