Potential Discovery Activity Via Dnscmd.EXE

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About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Detects an attempt to leverage dnscmd.exe to enumerate the DNS zones of a domain. DNS zones used to host the DNS records for a particular domain.

Severity

Trouble

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND PROCESSNAME endswith "\dnscmd.exe" AND COMMANDLINE contains "/enumrecords,/enumzones,/ZonePrint,/info" select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.COMMANDLINE,Action1.FILE_NAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.USERNAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSNAME

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

Active Directory

Author

@gott_cyber