Potentially Suspicious Azure Front Door Connection

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About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Detects connections with Azure Front Door (known legitimate service that can be leveraged for C2) that fall outside of known benign behavioral baseline (not using common apps or common azurefd.net endpoints)

Severity

Trouble

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "sa_network_connection" AND DESTINATIONHOST contains "azurefd.net" AND (PROCESSNAME notendswith "brave.exe,chrome.exe,chromium.exe,firefox.exe,msedge.exe,msedgewebview2.exe,opera.exe,vivaldi.exe" AND PROCESSNAME notendswith "searchapp.exe" AND DESTINATIONHOST notcontains "afdxtest.z01.azurefd.net,fp-afd.azurefd.net,fp-afdx-bpdee4gtg6frejfd.z01.azurefd.net,roxy.azurefd.net,powershellinfraartifacts-gkhedzdeaghdezhr.z01.azurefd.net,storage-explorer-publishing-feapcgfgbzc2cjek.b01.azurefd.net,graph.azurefd.net") select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.USERNAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.DESTINATIONHOST,Action1.DESTINATION_IPV6,Action1.DEST_IP,Action1.SOURCEHOST,Action1.SOURCE_IP,Action1.SOURCE_IPV6

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

Windows

Author

Isaac Dunham