Detect excessive NXDOMAIN DNS queries - Anomaly based (ASIM DNS Solution)

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This rule makes use of the series decompose anomaly method to generate an alert when client requests excessive amount of DNS queries to non-existent domains. This helps in identifying possible C2 communications. It utilizes ASIM normalization and is applied to any source that supports the ASIM DNS schema.

Attribute Value
Type Analytic Rule
Solution DNS Essentials
ID 02f23312-1a33-4390-8b80-f7cd4df4dea0
Severity Medium
Status Available
Kind Scheduled
Tactics CommandAndControl
Techniques T1568, T1008
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Tables Used

This content item queries data from the following tables:

Table Transformations Ingestion API Lake-Only
Anomalies ?
DNS_Summarized_Logs_ip_CL 🔶 ? ?

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