Node.js Process Querying External IP Lookup Service
Detects Node.js processes querying public IP-address and geolocation lookup services. This automated reconnaissance behavior is the standard "where am I" primitive used by an enormous range of Node-based malware and supply chain campaigns including PhantomRaven (npm), Shai-Hulud, the Bitwarden CLI compromise, Ultralytics-style attacks, and countless commodity Node-based stealers and droppers. Legitimate Node applications rarely query public IP services from developer endpoints — when they do, it is most often during malicious package install lifecycle hooks or within fileless droppers fetched from attacker-controlled C2 servers.
Microsoft Sentinel (KQL)
