Network Traffic to Rare Destination Country
editNetwork Traffic to Rare Destination Country
editA machine learning job detected a rare destination country name in the network logs. This can be due to initial access, persistence, command-and-control, or exfiltration activity. For example, when a user clicks on a link in a phishing email or opens a malicious document, a request may be sent to download and run a payload from a server in a country which does not normally appear in network traffic or business work-flows. Malware instances and persistence mechanisms may communicate with command-and-control (C2) infrastructure in their country of origin, which may be an unusual destination country for the source network.
Rule type: machine_learning
Rule indices: None
Severity: low
Risk score: 21
Runs every: 15m
Searches indices from: now-30m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time
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Maximum alerts per execution: 100
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Tags:
- Use Case: Threat Detection
- Rule Type: ML
- Rule Type: Machine Learning
Version: 103
Rule authors:
- Elastic
Rule license: Elastic License v2