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RPC (Remote Procedure Call) from the Internet

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RPC (Remote Procedure Call) from the Internet

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Detects network events that may indicate the use of RPC traffic from the Internet. RPC is commonly used by system administrators to remotely control a system for maintenance or to use shared resources. It should almost never be directly exposed to the Internet, as it is frequently targeted and exploited by threat actors as an initial access or back-door vector.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

  • filebeat-*

Severity: high

Risk score: 73

Runs every: 5 minutes

Searches indices from: now-6m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum signals per execution: 100

Tags:

  • Elastic
  • Network

Version: 3 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.6.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 7.7.0

Rule query

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network.transport:tcp and destination.port:135 and not
source.ip:(10.0.0.0/8 or 127.0.0.0/8 or 172.16.0.0/12 or
192.168.0.0/16 or "::1") and destination.ip:(10.0.0.0/8 or
172.16.0.0/12 or 192.168.0.0/16)

Threat mapping

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Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

Rule version history

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Version 3 (7.7.0 release)

Updated query, changed from: 

network.transport: tcp and destination.port: 135 and (
network.direction: inbound or ( not source.ip: (10.0.0.0/8 or
172.16.0.0/12 or 192.168.0.0/16) and destination.ip: (10.0.0.0/8 or
172.16.0.0/12 or 192.168.0.0/16) ) )
Version 2 (7.6.1 release)
  • Removed auditbeat-*, packetbeat-*, and winlogbeat-* from the rule indices.
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