Possible contact with a domain generated by a DGA

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'Identifies contacts with domains names in CommonSecurityLog that might have been generated by a Domain Generation Algorithm (DGA). DGAs can be used by malware to generate rendezvous points that are difficult to predict in advance. This detection uses the Alexa Top 1 million domain names to build a model of what normal domains look like. It uses this to identify domains that may have been randomly generated by an algorithm. The triThreshold is set to 500 - increase this to report on domains that

Attribute Value
Type Analytic Rule
Solution Standalone Content
ID 4acd3a04-2fad-4efc-8a4b-51476594cec4
Severity Medium
Kind Scheduled
Tactics CommandAndControl
Techniques T1568
Required Connectors Zscaler, Barracuda, CEF, CheckPoint, CiscoASA, F5, Fortinet, PaloAltoNetworks
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Tables Used

This content item queries data from the following tables:

Table Transformations Ingestion API Lake-Only
CommonSecurityLog ✓ ✓ ✓

Associated Connectors

The following connectors provide data for this content item:

Connector Solution
CefAma Common Event Format
VirtualMetricDirectorProxy VirtualMetric DataStream
VirtualMetricMSSentinelConnector VirtualMetric DataStream
VirtualMetricMSSentinelDataLakeConnector VirtualMetric DataStream

Solutions: Common Event Format, VirtualMetric DataStream


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