Suricata and Elastic Defend Network Correlation

Last updated 10 days ago on 2025-12-10

Created 10 days ago on 2025-12-10

About

This detection correlates Suricata alerts with Elastic Defend network events to identify the source process performing the network activity.

Tags

Domain: EndpointDomain: NetworkOS: LinuxOS: WindowsOS: macOSUse Case: Threat DetectionTactic: Command and ControlData Source: Elastic DefendData Source: SuricataLanguage: eql

Severity

medium

Risk Score

MITRE ATT&CK™

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

License

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

Definition

Rule Type

Event Correlation Rule

Integration Pack

Prebuilt Security Detection Rules

Index Patterns

logs-endpoint.events.network-*filebeat-*logs-suricata.*

Related Integrations

endpoint(external, opens in a new tab or window)

suricata(external, opens in a new tab or window)

Query

✄𐘗text code block:
✄𐘗sequence by source.port, source.ip, destination.ip with maxspan=1m
 [network where event.dataset == "suricata.eve" and event.kind == "alert" and event.severity != 3 and source.ip != null and destination.ip != null]
 [network where event.module == "endpoint" and event.action in ("disconnect_received", "connection_attempted")]

Install detection rules in Elastic Security

Detect Suricata and Elastic Defend Network Correlation 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(external, opens in a new tab or window).