Palo Alto - potential beaconing detected

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'Identifies beaconing patterns from Palo Alto Network traffic logs based on recurrent timedelta patterns. The query leverages various KQL functions to calculate time deltas and then compares it with total events observed in a day to find percentage of beaconing. This outbound beaconing pattern to untrusted public networks should be investigated for any malware callbacks or data exfiltration attempts. Reference Blog: https://medium.com/@HuntOperator/detect-beaconing-with-flare-elastic-stack-and-i

Attribute Value
Type Analytic Rule
Solution PaloAlto-PAN-OS
ID f0be259a-34ac-4946-aa15-ca2b115d5feb
Severity Low
Status Available
Kind Scheduled
Tactics CommandAndControl
Techniques T1071, T1571
Required Connectors CefAma
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Tables Used

This content item queries data from the following tables:

Table Selection Criteria Transformations Ingestion API Lake-Only
CommonSecurityLog DeviceVendor == "Palo Alto Networks" ?
fluentbit_CL 🔶 ? ?

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