Discovery of Internet Capabilities via Built-in Tools

Elastic Stack Serverless Security

Identifies the use of built-in tools attackers can use to check for Internet connectivity on compromised systems. These results may be used to determine communication capabilities with C2 servers, or to identify routes, redirectors, and proxy servers.

Rule type: new_terms

Rule indices:

• logs-endpoint.events.*

Severity: low

Risk score: 21

Runs every: 5m

Searches indices from: now-9m (https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/common-options.html#date-math[Date Math format], see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References: None

Tags:

• Domain: Endpoint
• OS: Windows
• Use Case: Threat Detection
• Tactic: Discovery
• Rule Type: BBR
• Data Source: Elastic Defend

Version: 102

Rule authors:

• Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

host.os.type:windows and event.category:process and event.type:start and
process.name.caseless:("ping.exe" or "tracert.exe" or "pathping.exe") and
not process.args:("127.0.0.1" or "0.0.0.0" or "localhost" or "::1")

Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

• Tactic:

  • Name: Discovery
  • ID: TA0007
  • Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0007/

• Technique:

  • Name: System Network Configuration Discovery
  • ID: T1016
  • Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1016/

• Sub-technique:

  • Name: Internet Connection Discovery
  • ID: T1016.001
  • Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1016/001/