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DNS Exfiltration and Tunneling Tools Execution

Well-known DNS Exfiltration tools execution

MITRE ATT&CK

exfiltrationcommand-and-control

Detection Query

selection:
  - Image|endswith: \iodine.exe
  - Image|contains: \dnscat2
condition: selection

Author

Daniil Yugoslavskiy, oscd.community

Created

2019-10-24

Data Sources

windowsProcess Creation Events

Platforms

windows

References

Tags

attack.exfiltrationattack.t1048.001attack.command-and-controlattack.t1071.004attack.t1132.001

Raw Content

title: DNS Exfiltration and Tunneling Tools Execution
id: 98a96a5a-64a0-4c42-92c5-489da3866cb0
status: test
description: Well-known DNS Exfiltration tools execution
references:
    - https://github.com/iagox86/dnscat2
    - https://github.com/yarrick/iodine
author: Daniil Yugoslavskiy, oscd.community
date: 2019-10-24
modified: 2021-11-27
tags:
    - attack.exfiltration
    - attack.t1048.001
    - attack.command-and-control
    - attack.t1071.004
    - attack.t1132.001
logsource:
    category: process_creation
    product: windows
detection:
    selection:
        - Image|endswith: '\iodine.exe'
        - Image|contains: '\dnscat2'
    condition: selection
falsepositives:
    - Unlikely
level: high