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DNS Events Related To Mining Pools

Identifies clients that may be performing DNS lookups associated with common currency mining pools.

Detection logic

Detection requirements

Platform
ContainersIaaSLinuxmacOSSaaSWindows

The rule states no platform. This is derived from the 2 ATT&CK techniques it maps to.

Log source product
zeek
Log source service
dns

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'.

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