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RPC (Remote Procedure Call) to the Internet

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RPC (Remote Procedure Call) to the Internet

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This rule detects network events that may indicate the use of RPC traffic to the Internet. RPC is commonly used by system administrators to remotely control a system for maintenance or to use shared resources. It should almost never be directly exposed to the Internet, as it is frequently targeted and exploited by threat actors as an initial access or backdoor vector.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

auditbeat-*
filebeat-*
packetbeat-*
logs-endpoint.events.*

Severity: high

Risk score: 73

Runs every: 5m

Searches indices from: now-9m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

https://www.iana.org/assignments/iana-ipv4-special-registry/iana-ipv4-special-registry.xhtml

Tags:

Elastic
Host
Network
Threat Detection
Initial Access
Host

Version: 11

Rule authors:

Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Rule query

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event.category:(network or network_traffic) and network.transport:tcp and (destination.port:135 or event.dataset:zeek.dce_rpc) and
  source.ip:(
    10.0.0.0/8 or
    172.16.0.0/12 or
    192.168.0.0/16
  ) and
  not destination.ip:(
    10.0.0.0/8 or
    127.0.0.0/8 or
    169.254.0.0/16 or
    172.16.0.0/12 or
    192.0.0.0/24 or
    192.0.0.0/29 or
    192.0.0.8/32 or
    192.0.0.9/32 or
    192.0.0.10/32 or
    192.0.0.170/32 or
    192.0.0.171/32 or
    192.0.2.0/24 or
    192.31.196.0/24 or
    192.52.193.0/24 or
    192.168.0.0/16 or
    192.88.99.0/24 or
    224.0.0.0/4 or
    100.64.0.0/10 or
    192.175.48.0/24 or
    198.18.0.0/15 or
    198.51.100.0/24 or
    203.0.113.0/24 or
    240.0.0.0/4 or
    "::1" or
    "FE80::/10" or
    "FF00::/8"
  )

Framework: MITRE ATT&CK^TM

Tactic:
- Name: Initial Access
- ID: TA0001
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0001/
Technique:
- Name: Exploit Public-Facing Application
- ID: T1190
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1190/

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