Endpoint Denial of Service T1499
Tactic: Impact
Adversaries may perform Endpoint Denial of Service (DoS) attacks to degrade or block the availability of services to users. Endpoint DoS can be performed by exhausting the system resources those services are hosted on or exploiting the system to cause a persistent crash condition. Example services include websites, email services, DNS, and web-based applications. Adversaries have been observed conducting DoS attacks for political purposes and to support other malicious activities, including distraction, hacktivism, and extortion.
Events covered
13 catalog events are tagged with this technique by at least one rule.
Authoring guide
These 47 rules share fields, values, and exclusions.
Fields filtered most (77 distinct)
These fields appear most often in rule filters.
Top indicator values (130 distinct)
These values appear most often in rule predicates.
Exclusions (7 distinct)
These values appear most often in top-level exclusions.
Rules under this technique
These vendors publish rules tagged with this technique.
Sigma 9 rules
- Apache Segmentation Fault
- Audit CVE Event
- CVE-2024-49113 Exploitation Attempt - LDAP Nightmare
- LSASS Crash Via Netlogon Stack Buffer Overflow - CVE-2026-41089
- MFA attack - bombarding a user with SMS for MFA
- Nginx Core Dump
- NTFS Vulnerability Exploitation
- Potential Abuse of Linux Magic System Request Key
- Rapid creation of clients with the dynamic client registration endpoint
Elastic 6 rules
- Abnormally Large DNS Response
- Decline in host-based traffic
- Possible Okta DoS Attack
- Repeated Stalled TLS Handshakes via ALPN acme-tls/1 Extension
- Spike in Firewall Denies
- Spike in host-based traffic
Splunk 5 rules
- Cisco Secure Firewall - Static Tundra Smart Install Abuse
- ESXi Bulk VM Termination
- Linux Magic SysRq Key Abuse
- Ollama Possible Memory Exhaustion Resource Abuse
- Potential CVE-2024-49113 - LDAPNightmare (Windows Event Log)
Kusto 22 rules
- API - Rate limiting
- Common Event Format (CEF) via AMA - Critical Severity Detection
- Excessive Amount of Denied Connections from a Single Source
- Excessive number of failed connections from a single source (ASIM Network Session schema)
- Missing Domain Controller Heartbeat
- NGINX - Core Dump
- Snowflake - Abnormal query process time
- Tomcat - Multiple empty requests from same IP
- UniFi Site Manager: ISP Downtime
- UniFi Site Manager: ISP High Latency
- UniFi Site Manager: ISP Packet Loss
- UniFi Site Manager: ISP SLA Breach
- UniFi Site Manager: Multiple Devices Offline
- UniFi Site Manager: New critical notifications appeared
- UniFi Site Manager: Site Health Critical
- UniFi Site Manager: WAN uptime below 99%
- Vectra Account's Behaviors
- Vectra AI Detect - Detections with High Severity
- Vectra AI Detect - Suspected Compromised Account
- Vectra AI Detect - Suspected Compromised Host
- Vectra AI Detect - Suspicious Behaviors by Category
- Vectra Host's Behaviors