PANW and Elastic Defend - Command and Control Correlation

Last updated 8 days ago on 2025-11-18
Created 8 days ago on 2025-11-18

About

This detection correlates Palo Alto Networks (PANW) command and control events with Elastic Defend network events to identify the source process performing the network activity.
Tags
Domain: EndpointOS: LinuxOS: WindowsOS: macOSUse Case: Threat DetectionTactic: Command and ControlData Source: Elastic DefendData Source: PAN-OSLanguage: eql
Severity
medium
Risk Score
47
MITRE ATT&CK™

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

License
Elastic License v2(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-*logs-panw.panos-*
Related Integrations

endpoint(opens in a new tab or window)

panw(opens in a new tab or window)

Query
sequence by source.port, source.ip, destination.ip with maxspan=1m
 [network where event.module == "panw" and event.action == "c2_communication"]
 [network where event.module == "endpoint" and event.action in ("disconnect_received", "connection_attempted")]

Install detection rules in Elastic Security

Detect PANW and Elastic Defend - Command and Control 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(opens in a new tab or window).