DNS Events Related To Mining Pools
Identifies clients that may be performing DNS lookups associated with common currency mining pools.
Detection logic
Detection requirements
Known benign triggers
- A DNS lookup does not necessarily mean a successful attempt, verify a) if there was a response using the zeek answers field, if there was then verify the connections (conn.log) to those IPs. b) verify if HTTP, SSL, or TLS activity to the domain that was queried. http.log field is 'host' and ssl/tls is 'server_name'.
MITRE ATT&CK mappings
0 exclusive techniques.This is coverage no other published rule has; it is not this rule's total technique count.
References
| Reference | Cited by |
|---|---|
| github.com/Azure/Azure-Sentinel/blob/fa0411f9424b6c47b4d5a20165e4f1b168c1f103/Detections/ASimDNS/imDNS_Miners.yaml | Only this detection cites it |
From the source
- At source
- Open at source
- Upstream identifier
- bf74135c-18e8-4a72-a926-0e4f47888c19
- Tagged by the source as
- attack.executionattack.impact
Licence
- Published under
- Detection Rule License 1.1Read the licence
- Attribution
- Required
Authorship
- Written by
- Published
- Aug 26, 2026
- Version
- 1