Endpoint Denial of Service: Service Exhaustion Flood T1499.002

Tactic: Impact

Adversaries may target the different network services provided by systems to conduct a denial of service (DoS). Adversaries often target the availability of DNS and web services, however others have been targeted as well. Web server software can be attacked through a variety of means, some of which apply generally while others are specific to the software being used to provide the service.

Authoring guide

Patterns shared across the 2 rules above: which fields they filter on, what specific values they look for, and what they exclude. The catalog normalizes field names across vendors so Sigma's Image, Elastic's process.name, and Splunk's process_name collapse into one row. Each rule contributes at most once per row.

Fields filtered most (4 distinct)

The fields most rules look at when detecting this technique. The How column shows the operators authors use (eq, wildcard, regex_match, match) and how often each appears. Sample values are concrete examples to start from, not an exhaustive list.

FieldRulesHowSample values
EventType1in 1application.integration.rate_limit_exceeded, core.concurrency.org.limit.violation, system.org.rate_limit.violation
data.description1eq 1Guardian - Second factor sms sent
data.type1eq 1gd_send_sms
data_stream.dataset1eq 1okta.system

Top indicator values (7 distinct)

Specific (field, operator, value) combinations the rules check for, ranked by how many rules under this technique use each one. The Corpus reach column counts how many rules across the entire catalog (any technique) check the same combination. High numbers point to widely-used indicators that are likely noisy on their own; combine them with another condition for useful signal. Blank means the combination is specific to rules under this technique. Click a value to expand the rules under this technique that use it.

FieldKindValueRules (here)Corpus reach
EventTypein
application.integration.rate_limit_exceeded
1
EventTypein
core.concurrency.org.limit.violation
1
EventTypein
system.org.rate_limit.violation
1
EventTypein
system.org.rate_limit.warning
1
data.descriptioneq
Guardian - Second factor sms sent
1
data.typeeq
gd_send_sms
1
data_stream.dataseteq
okta.system
148

Rules under this technique

Every rule in the catalog tagged with this technique, grouped by vendor. Click a rule title for its full predicates, exclusions, and indicators.

Platform (all)
Domain (all)

Sigma 1 rule

Elastic 1 rule