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Active Scanning T1595

Adversaries may execute active reconnaissance scans to gather information that can be used during targeting. Active scans are those where the adversary probes victim infrastructure via network traffic, as opposed to other forms of reconnaissance that do not involve direct interaction.

Events covered

1 catalog event are tagged with this technique by at least one rule.

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon1Process creation

Authoring guide

Patterns shared across the 2 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 (6 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
Image2ends_with 2\PingCastle.exe
Product2eq 2Ping Castle
CommandLine2match 2--scanner antivirus, --healthcheck, --level Full
OriginalFileName2eq 2PingCastle.exe
Hashes1match 1MD5=9d4f12c30f9b500f896efd1800e4dd11, MD5=93ba94355e794b6c6f98204cf39f7a11, MD5=63257a1ddaf83cfa43fe24a3bc06c207
ParentCommandLine1match 1\Contacts\, .html, :\Perflogs\

Top indicator values (172 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
CommandLinematch--scanner zerologon23
CommandLinematch--scanner share23
CommandLinematch--scanner laps_bitlocker23
CommandLinematch--scanner startup23
CommandLinematch--scanner oxidbindings23
OriginalFileNameeqPingCastle.exe23
CommandLinematch--healthcheck23
CommandLinematch--no-enum-limit23
CommandLinematch--scanner foreignusers23
CommandLinematch--scanner remote23
CommandLinematch--scanner computerversion23
CommandLinematch--scanner smb23
CommandLinematch--scanner localadmin23
CommandLinematch--scanner smb3querynetwork23
CommandLinematch--scanner aclcheck23
Imageends_with\PingCastle.exe23
CommandLinematch--scanner nullsession-trust23
CommandLinematch--level Full23
CommandLinematch--server 23
CommandLinematch--scanner spooler23

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 2 rules