RPC (Remote Procedure Call) from the Internet

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RPC (Remote Procedure Call) from the Internet

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 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

Rule version: 2 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.6.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 7.6.1

Rule query

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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) ) )

Threat mapping

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Framework: MITRE ATT&CK^TM

Tactic:
- Name: Initial Access
- ID: TA0011
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0011/
Technique:
- Name: Exploit Public-Facing Application
- ID: T1190
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1190/

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