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Cloudflared Tunnels Related DNS Requests

Severity
medium
Author
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
Source
upstream

Detects DNS requests to Cloudflared tunnels domains. Attackers can abuse that feature to establish a reverse shell or persistence on a machine.

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Command & ControlT1071.001 Application Layer Protocol: Web Protocols, T1572 Protocol Tunneling

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon22DNSEvent (DNS query)

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

or:
QueryName|endswith: .v2.argotunnel.com
QueryName|endswith: protocol-v2.argotunnel.com
QueryName|endswith: trycloudflare.com
QueryName|endswith: update.argotunnel.com

Indicators

Each row is a field, operator, and value that the rule matches. The corpus column counts how many other rules in the catalog look for the same combination: high numbers point to widely-used, community-vetted indicators. Blank or 1 shows that the indicator is specific to this rule.

FieldKindValues
QueryNameends_with
  • .v2.argotunnel.com
  • protocol-v2.argotunnel.com
  • trycloudflare.com
  • update.argotunnel.com