Azure Full Network Packet Capture Detected

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Identifies potential full network packet capture in Azure. Packet Capture is an Azure Network Watcher feature that can be used to inspect network traffic. This feature can potentially be abused to read sensitive data from unencrypted internal traffic.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

  • filebeat-*
  • logs-azure*

Severity: medium

Risk score: 47

Runs every: 5 minutes

Searches indices from: now-25m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

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Tags:

  • Elastic
  • Cloud
  • Azure
  • Continuous Monitoring
  • SecOps
  • Monitoring

Version: 3 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.16.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 8.4.0

Rule authors: Austin Songer

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Potential false positives

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Full Network Packet Capture may be done by a system or network administrator. Verify whether the user identity, user agent, and/or hostname should be making changes in your environment. Full Network Packet Capture from unfamiliar users or hosts should be investigated. If known behavior is causing false positives, it can be exempted from the rule.

Investigation guide

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Rule query

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event.dataset:azure.activitylogs and
azure.activitylogs.operation_name: (
"MICROSOFT.NETWORK/*/STARTPACKETCAPTURE/ACTION" or
"MICROSOFT.NETWORK/*/VPNCONNECTIONS/STARTPACKETCAPTURE/ACTION" or
"MICROSOFT.NETWORK/*/PACKETCAPTURES/WRITE" ) and
event.outcome:(Success or success)

Threat mapping

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Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

Rule version history

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Version 3 (8.4.0 release)
  • Updated query, changed from:

    event.dataset:azure.activitylogs and
    azure.activitylogs.operation_name: (
    "MICROSOFT.NETWORK/*/STARTPACKETCAPTURE/ACTION" or
    "MICROSOFT.NETWORK/*/VPNCONNECTIONS/STARTPACKETCAPTURE/ACTION" or
    "MICROSOFT.NETWORK/*/PACKETCAPTURES/WRITE" ) and
    event.outcome:(Success or success)