Detection rules › Sigma

Network Reconnaissance Activity

Severity
high
Author
Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
Source
upstream

Detects a set of suspicious network related commands often used in recon stages

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
DiscoveryT1082 System Information Discovery, T1087 Account Discovery

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon1Process creation
Security-Auditing4688A new process has been created.

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

CommandLine|contains: _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.
CommandLine|contains: nslookup

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
CommandLinematch
  • _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.
  • nslookup corpus 2 (sigma 2)