Managed Sentinel – Alert 024
| Alert ID | MS-A024 |
| Alert Name | DNS Domain anomalous lookup increase |
| Description | Checking for a threefold increase or more of Domain lookup per ClientIP for today based on daily average for the previous week. This can potentially identify excessive traffic to a given location that could be indicative of data transfer out of your network to a group of systems on the same second level domain. For example, if one client is sending requests for test1.badguy.com and another client is sending requests for test2.badguy.com, you may not see a high enough count to be interesting. However, a combination of the requests to badguy.com could have a high enough count to be interesting. Source: Github - Microsoft |
| Severity Level | Medium |
| Threat Indicator | Data Theft |
| MITRE ATT&CK Tactics | Command and Control Exfiltration |
| Log sources | DNS Logs |
| False Positives | Unknown |
| Recommendations | This is only Name lookups, so it would be recommended to review the Firewall\Webproxy logs in relation to the ClientIP making the interesting requests. |