Potential Remote Desktop Tunneling
This query detects remote desktop authentication attempts with a localhost source address, which can indicate a tunneled login. Ref: https://www.mandiant.com/resources/bypassing-network-restrictions-through-rdp-tunneling
Detection logic
Detection requirements
- Platform
- ESXiLinuxmacOSWindows
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the ATT&CK technique it maps to.
- Log source product
- securityeventswindowssecurityevents
- Log source service
- securityevent
MITRE ATT&CK mappings
0 exclusive techniques.This is coverage no other published rule has; it is not this rule's total technique count.
No references are available for this detection.
From the source
- At source
- Open at source
- Upstream identifier
- d2e8fd50-8d66-11ec-b909-0242ac120002
- Tagged by the source as
- CommandAndControl
Licence
- Published under
- MIT LicenseRead the licence
- Attribution
- Required
- Obtained under
- MITRead the origin licence
Authorship
- Published
- Sep 1, 2026
- Version
- 1