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Gather Victim Network Information T1590

Adversaries may gather information about the victim's networks that can be used during targeting. Information about networks may include a variety of details, including administrative data (ex: IP ranges, domain names, etc.) as well as specifics regarding its topology and operations.

Events covered

9 catalog events are tagged with this technique by at least one rule.

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon3Network connection
Sysmon22DNSEvent (DNS query)
Security-Auditing5152The Windows Filtering Platform blocked a packet.
Security-Auditing5154The Windows Filtering Platform has permitted an application or service to listen on a port for incoming connections.
Security-Auditing5155The Windows Filtering Platform has blocked an application or service from listening on a port for incoming connections.
Security-Auditing5156The Windows Filtering Platform has permitted a connection.
Security-Auditing5157The Windows Filtering Platform has blocked a connection.
Security-Auditing5158The Windows Filtering Platform has permitted a bind to a local port.
Security-Auditing5159The Windows Filtering Platform has blocked a bind to a local port.

Authoring guide

Patterns shared across the 4 rules above: which fields they filter on, what specific values they look for, and what they exclude. Field names are normalized across vendors so Sigma's Image, Elastic's process.name, and Splunk's process_name collapse into one row. Each rule contributes at most once per row.

Fields filtered most (5 distinct)

The fields most rules look at when detecting this technique. The How column shows the operators authors use (eq, wildcard, regex_match, match) and how often each appears. Sample values are concrete examples to start from, not an exhaustive list.

FieldRulesHowSample values
QueryName2eq 1, match 1, in 1myexternalip.com, bot.whatismyipaddress.com, ipecho.net, "*replicate*", "*huggingface*"
NetworkDirection1eq 1Inbound
DNSQueryCount1gt 1threshold
Image1eq 1, ends_with 1, starts_with 1C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe, C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe, \WindowsApps\MicrosoftEdge.exe
EventID1eq 122

Top indicator values (85 distinct)

Specific (field, operator, value) combinations the rules check for, ranked by how many rules under this technique use each one. The Corpus reach column counts how many rules across the entire catalog (any technique) check the same combination. High numbers point to widely-used indicators that are likely noisy on their own; combine them with another condition for useful signal. Blank means the combination is specific to rules under this technique.

FieldKindValueRules (here)Corpus reach
NetworkDirectioneqInbound1
DNSQueryCountgtthreshold1
QueryNamematchgeoipy.com1
QueryNamematchip-api.com1
QueryNamematchapi.ipify.org1
Imagestarts_withC:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\EdgeCore\111
QueryNamematchipconfig.io1
ImageeqC:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe111
QueryNamematcheth0.me1
Imageends_with\seamonkey.exe113
Imagestarts_withC:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\EdgeWebView\Application\110
Imagestarts_withC:\Program Files\Microsoft\EdgeCore\111
Imageends_with\opera.exe121
Imageends_with\safari.exe112
QueryNamematchipv4bot.whatismyipaddress.com1
QueryNamematchipof.in1
ImageeqC:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe112
QueryNamematchwtfismyip.com1
QueryNamematchmyexternalip.com1
QueryNamematchifconfig.io1

Common exclusions (4 distinct)

Field/operator/value combinations that rules under this technique routinely exclude (top-level not() clauses). These are the false-positive paths the community has learned to filter out. A new rule that ignores the high-count entries here will likely fire on the same noisy paths.

FieldKindValueRules excluding
Imagein"C:\\Windows\\System32\\*"1
Imagein"*\\MsMpEng.exe"1
Imagein"C:\\ProgramData\\*"1
Imagein"C:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\*"1

Rules under this technique

Every rule in the catalog tagged with this technique, grouped by vendor. Click a rule title for its full predicates, exclusions, and indicators.

Sigma 1 rule

Splunk 1 rule

Kusto Query Language 2 rules