Unusual Discovery Activity by User

Elastic Stack Serverless Security

This rule leverages alert data from various Discovery building block rules to alert on signals with unusual unique host.id and user.id entries.

Rule type: new_terms

Rule indices:

• .alerts-security.*

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: Higher-Order Rule
• Rule Type: BBR

Version: 2

Rule authors:

• Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

host.os.type:windows and event.kind:signal and kibana.alert.rule.rule_id:(
  "d68e95ad-1c82-4074-a12a-125fe10ac8ba" or "7b8bfc26-81d2-435e-965c-d722ee397ef1" or
  "0635c542-1b96-4335-9b47-126582d2c19a" or "6ea55c81-e2ba-42f2-a134-bccf857ba922" or
  "e0881d20-54ac-457f-8733-fe0bc5d44c55" or "06568a02-af29-4f20-929c-f3af281e41aa" or
  "c4e9ed3e-55a2-4309-a012-bc3c78dad10a" or "51176ed2-2d90-49f2-9f3d-17196428b169" or
  "1d72d014-e2ab-4707-b056-9b96abe7b511"
)

Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

• Tactic:

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