Excessive Inbound or Outbound Connections from same Source

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About the rule

Rule Type

Advanced

Rule Description

Unusually increased number of inbound or outbound connections originating from or targeting the same source IP

Severity

Trouble

Rule Requirement

Criteria

highly_traffic_abnormal_source_e1: logtype = "*" and IENAME = "Traffic Allowed" | groupby SOURCE_IP limit 10 having count > 100000 | first 1 DEST_IP, DEST_PORT, ACTION select highly_traffic_abnormal_source_e1.SOURCE_IP as SourceIP, highly_traffic_abnormal_source_e1.SOURCE_IP.ACTION as Top_Action, highly_traffic_abnormal_source_e1.SOURCE_IP.DEST_IP as Top_DestinationIP, highly_traffic_abnormal_source_e1.SOURCE_IP.DEST_PORT as Top_Destination_port, count(highly_traffic_abnormal_source_e1.SOURCE_IP)

Detection

Execution Mode

scheduled

Log Sources

Network