Destination Fields

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Destination fields capture details about the receiver of a network exchange/packet. These fields are populated from a network event, packet, or other event containing details of a network transaction.

Destination fields are usually populated in conjunction with source fields. The source and destination fields are considered the baseline and should always be filled if an event contains source and destination details from a network transaction. If the event also contains identification of the client and server roles, then the client and server fields should also be populated.

Destination Field Details

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Field Description Level

destination.address

Some event destination addresses are defined ambiguously. The event will sometimes list an IP, a domain or a unix socket. You should always store the raw address in the .address field.

Then it should be duplicated to .ip or .domain, depending on which one it is.

type: keyword

extended

destination.bytes

Bytes sent from the destination to the source.

type: long

example: 184

core

destination.domain

Destination domain.

type: keyword

core

destination.ip

IP address of the destination (IPv4 or IPv6).

type: ip

core

destination.mac

MAC address of the destination.

The notation format from RFC 7042 is suggested: Each octet (that is, 8-bit byte) is represented by two [uppercase] hexadecimal digits giving the value of the octet as an unsigned integer. Successive octets are separated by a hyphen.

type: keyword

example: 00-00-5E-00-53-23

core

destination.nat.ip

Translated ip of destination based NAT sessions (e.g. internet to private DMZ)

Typically used with load balancers, firewalls, or routers.

type: ip

extended

destination.nat.port

Port the source session is translated to by NAT Device.

Typically used with load balancers, firewalls, or routers.

type: long

extended

destination.packets

Packets sent from the destination to the source.

type: long

example: 12

core

destination.port

Port of the destination.

type: long

core

destination.registered_domain

The highest registered destination domain, stripped of the subdomain.

For example, the registered domain for "foo.example.com" is "example.com".

This value can be determined precisely with a list like the public suffix list (http://publicsuffix.org). Trying to approximate this by simply taking the last two labels will not work well for TLDs such as "co.uk".

type: keyword

example: example.com

extended

destination.subdomain

The subdomain portion of a fully qualified domain name includes all of the names except the host name under the registered_domain. In a partially qualified domain, or if the the qualification level of the full name cannot be determined, subdomain contains all of the names below the registered domain.

For example the subdomain portion of "www.east.mydomain.co.uk" is "east". If the domain has multiple levels of subdomain, such as "sub2.sub1.example.com", the subdomain field should contain "sub2.sub1", with no trailing period.

type: keyword

example: east

extended

destination.top_level_domain

The effective top level domain (eTLD), also known as the domain suffix, is the last part of the domain name. For example, the top level domain for example.com is "com".

This value can be determined precisely with a list like the public suffix list (http://publicsuffix.org). Trying to approximate this by simply taking the last label will not work well for effective TLDs such as "co.uk".

type: keyword

example: co.uk

extended

Field Reuse

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Field sets that can be nested under Destination
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Field Set Location Description

as

destination.as.*

Fields describing an Autonomous System (Internet routing prefix).

geo

destination.geo.*

Fields describing a location.

user

destination.user.*

Fields to describe the user relevant to the event.