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MsBuild Making Network Connections
editMsBuild Making Network Connectionsedit
Identifies MsBuild.exe making outbound network connections. This may indicate
adversarial activity as MsBuild is often leveraged by adversaries to execute
code and evade detection.
Rule type: query
Rule indices:
- winlogbeat-*
Severity: medium
Risk score: 47
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
- Windows
Version: 2 (version history)
Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.6.0
Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 7.7.0
Rule queryedit
event.action:"Network connection detected (rule: NetworkConnect)" and process.name:MSBuild.exe and not destination.ip:(127.0.0.1 or "::1")
Threat mappingedit
Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM
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Tactic:
- Name: Execution
- ID: TA0002
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0002/
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Technique:
- Name: Trusted Developer Utilities
- ID: T1127
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1127/
Rule version historyedit
- Version 2 (7.7.0 release)
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Updated query, changed from:
event.action:"Network connection detected (rule: NetworkConnect)" and process.name:MSBuild.exe and not destination.ip:("127.0.0.1" or "::1")