DNS Exfiltration and Tunneling Tools Execution

Severity: high
Author: Daniil Yugoslavskiy, oscd.community
Source: upstream

Well-known DNS Exfiltration tools execution

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Tactic	Techniques
Command & Control	`T1071.004` Application Layer Protocol: DNS, `T1132.001` Data Encoding: Standard Encoding
Exfiltration	`T1048.001` Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol: Exfiltration Over Symmetric Encrypted Non-C2 Protocol

Event coverage

Provider	Event ID	Title
Sysmon	1	Process creation
Security-Auditing	4688	A new process has been created.

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: `selection`

or:
Image|endswith: '\iodine.exe'
Image|contains: '\dnscat2'

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.