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Potential DNS Tunneling via Iodine

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Potential DNS Tunneling via Iodine

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Iodine is a tool for tunneling Internet protocol version 4 (IPV4) traffic over the DNS protocol to circumvent firewalls, network security groups, and network access lists while evading detection.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

  • auditbeat-*
  • logs-endpoint.events.*

Severity: high

Risk score: 73

Runs every: 5 minutes

Searches indices from: now-9m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

Tags:

  • Elastic
  • Host
  • Linux
  • Threat Detection

Version: 7 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.6.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 7.12.0

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Potential false positives

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Normal use of Iodine is uncommon apart from security testing and research. Use by non-security engineers is very uncommon.

Rule query

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event.category:process and event.type:(start or process_started) and
process.name:(iodine or iodined)

Rule version history

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Version 7 (7.12.0 release)
  • Formatting only
Version 6 (7.11.2 release)
  • Formatting only
Version 5 (7.10.0 release)
  • Formatting only
Version 4 (7.9.1 release)
  • Formatting only
Version 3 (7.9.0 release)

  • Updated query, changed from:

    process.name:(iodine or iodined) and event.action:executed
Version 2 (7.7.0 release)

  • Updated query, changed from:

    process.name: (iodine or iodined) and event.action:executed
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