External IP Address Discovery via a Trusted Program

[rule]
description = """
Identifies scripting utilities and commonly abused binary proxy programs making a DNS request to a known public IP
address lookup web service. Malwares tend to perform this action to assess potential targets.
"""
id = "51894221-7657-4b56-9406-e080e19ad159"
license = "Elastic License v2"
name = "External IP Address Discovery via a Trusted Program"
os_list = ["windows"]
version = "1.0.38"

query = '''
sequence by process.entity_id with maxspan=5m
  [process where event.action == "start" and user.id like ("S-1-5-21*", "S-1-12-*") and
    (
     process.name : ("wscript.exe", "cscript.exe", "regsvr32.exe", "mshta.exe", "rundll32.exe", "vbc.exe",
                     "powershell.exe", "pwsh.exe", "msbuild.exe", "wmic.exe", "cmstp.exe", "RegAsm.exe",
                     "installutil.exe","RegSvcs.exe", "msxsl.exe", "xwizard.exe", "csc.exe", "curl.exe") or 
                     
     (process.name : "node.exe" and  process.Ext.relative_file_name_modify_time <= 300) or 
     
     process.executable : ("?:\\Program Files\\Java\\jre*\\bin\\javaw.exe",
                           "?:\\Program Files (x86)\\Java\\jre*\\bin\\javaw.exe",
                           "?:\\Program Files\\Java\\jre*\\bin\\java.exe",
                           "?:\\Program Files (x86)\\Java\\jre*\\bin\\java.exe",
                           "?:\\Windows\\Microsoft.NET\\*.exe")
     ) and
     not (process.name : "powershell.exe" and process.working_directory : "\\\\VMHOST\\Users\\*\\Downloads\\" and
          process.parent.executable : "\\Device\\Mup\\VMHOST\\*") and
     not process.command_line :  "\"C:\\Program Files\\PowerShell\\7\\pwsh.exe\""
   ]
  [dns where
    dns.question.name :
         (
          "ip-api.com",
          "checkip.dyndns.org",
          "api.ipify.org",
          "api.ipify.com",
          "whatismyip.akamai.com",
          "bot.whatismyipaddress.com",
          "ifcfg.me",
          "ident.me",
          "ipof.in",
          "ip.tyk.nu",
          "icanhazip.com",
          "curlmyip.com",
          "wgetip.com",
          "eth0.me",
          "ipecho.net",
          "ip.appspot.com",
          "api.myip.com",
          "geoiptool.com",
          "api.2ip.ua",
          "api.ip.sb",
          "ipinfo.io",
          "checkip.amazonaws.com",
          "wtfismyip.com",
          "iplogger.*",
          "freegeoip.net",
          "freegeoip.app",
          "ipinfo.io",
          "geoplugin.net",
          "myip.dnsomatic.com",
          "www.geoplugin.net",
          "api64.ipify.org",
          "ip4.seeip.org",
          "*.geojs.io",
          "*portmap.io",
          "api.2ip.ua",
          "api.db-ip.com",
          "geolocation-db.com",
          "httpbin.org",
          "myip.opendns.com"
         )
  ]
'''

min_endpoint_version = "8.4.0"
[[actions]]
action = "kill_process"
field = "process.entity_id"
state = 0
tree = true

[[optional_actions]]
action = "rollback"
field = "process.entity_id"
state = 0

[[threat]]
framework = "MITRE ATT&CK"
[[threat.technique]]
id = "T1016"
name = "System Network Configuration Discovery"
reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1016/"


[threat.tactic]
id = "TA0007"
name = "Discovery"
reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0007/"

[internal]
min_endpoint_version = "8.4.0"