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Whisper Security - C2 Communication Detection
Description
Detects command-and-control communication by joining CommonSecurityLog with Whisper threat intelligence data. Fires when network traffic matches a known C2 indicator with a threat score above 60.
- Rule type
- Scheduled
- Version
- 1.0.0
- Declared status
- Available
- Query frequency
- 5m
- Query period
- 1h
- Trigger
- gt 0
Declared MITRE coverage
Declared sources
Metadata from the source file. No dependencies inferred from KQL.
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Data types
KQL query
Original query, unchanged.
// MITRE ATT&CK: T1071 - Application Layer Protocol
// Tactic: Command and Control
// Detects C2 communication by correlating network logs with Whisper threat intel
let timeRange = 1h;
let threatThreshold = 60;
let c2Indicators = WhisperThreatIntel_CL
| where TimeGenerated > ago(timeRange)
| where isC2 == true
| where threatScore > threatThreshold
| project indicator, threatScore, threatLevel, feedNames, explanation, lastSeen;
let CommonSecurityLogSafe = union isfuzzy=true CommonSecurityLog, (datatable(TimeGenerated:datetime, DestinationIP:string, DestinationHostName:string, SourceIP:string, DeviceProduct:string, DeviceAction:string)[]);
CommonSecurityLogSafe
| where TimeGenerated > ago(timeRange)
| where isnotempty(DestinationIP) or isnotempty(DestinationHostName)
| extend matchIndicator = coalesce(DestinationHostName, DestinationIP)
| join kind=inner (c2Indicators) on $left.matchIndicator == $right.indicator
| extend SourceIP = SourceIP, DestinationIP = DestinationIP, DnsDomain = DestinationHostName
| project TimeGenerated, SourceIP, DestinationIP, DnsDomain, DeviceProduct, DeviceAction, threatScore, threatLevel, feedNames, explanation
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- Commit
9800e51↗- Source identifier
00682c4c-b8b5-5ef7-af33-50891b271b7b
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Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC