Elastic Security Detection Rules

Statistical Model Detected C2 Beaconing Activity with High Confidence

Last updated 14 days ago on 2024-11-07
Created a year ago on 2023-09-22

About

A statistical model has identified command-and-control (C2) beaconing activity with high confidence. Beaconing can help attackers maintain stealthy communication with their C2 servers, receive instructions and payloads, exfiltrate data and maintain persistence in a network.
Tags
Domain: NetworkUse Case: C2 Beaconing DetectionTactic: Command and Control
Severity
low
Risk Score
21
MITRE ATT&CK™

Command and Control (TA0011)(opens in a new tab or window)

↳ Web Service (T1102)(opens in a new tab or window)

License
Elastic License v2(opens in a new tab or window)

Definition

Rule Type
Query (Kibana Query Language)
Integration Pack
Prebuilt Security Detection Rules
Index Patterns
ml_beaconing.all
Related Integrations

beaconing(opens in a new tab or window)

endpoint(opens in a new tab or window)

network_traffic(opens in a new tab or window)

Query
beacon_stats.beaconing_score: 3

Install detection rules in Elastic Security

Detect Statistical Model Detected C2 Beaconing Activity with High Confidence in the Elastic Security detection engine by installing this rule into your Elastic Stack.

To setup this rule, check out the installation guide for Prebuilt Security Detection Rules(opens in a new tab or window).