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High count of connections by client IP on many ports

Description

'Identifies when 30 or more ports are used for a given client IP in 10 minutes occurring on the IIS server. This could be indicative of attempted port scanning or exploit attempt at internet facing web applications. This could also simply indicate a misconfigured service or device. References: IIS status code mapping - https://support.microsoft.com/help/943891/the-http-status-code-in-iis-7-0-iis-7-5-and-iis-8-0 Win32 Status code mapping - https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/cc231199.aspx'
Rule type
Scheduled
Version
1.0.3
Query frequency
1d
Query period
1d
Trigger
gt 0

Declared MITRE coverage

Declared sources

Metadata from the source file. No dependencies inferred from KQL.

Connectors

Data types

KQL query

Original query, unchanged.

let timeBin = 10m;
let portThreshold = 30;
W3CIISLog
| extend scStatusFull = strcat(scStatus, ".",scSubStatus)
// Map common IIS codes
| extend scStatusFull_Friendly = case(
scStatusFull == "401.0", "Access denied.",
scStatusFull == "401.1", "Logon failed.",
scStatusFull == "401.2", "Logon failed due to server configuration.",
scStatusFull == "401.3", "Unauthorized due to ACL on resource.",
scStatusFull == "401.4", "Authorization failed by filter.",
scStatusFull == "401.5", "Authorization failed by ISAPI/CGI application.",
scStatusFull == "403.0", "Forbidden.",
scStatusFull == "403.4", "SSL required.",
"See - https://support.microsoft.com/help/943891/the-http-status-code-in-iis-7-0-iis-7-5-and-iis-8-0")
// Mapping to Hex so can be mapped using website in comments above
| extend scWin32Status_Hex = tohex(tolong(scWin32Status))
// Map common win32 codes
| extend scWin32Status_Friendly = case(
scWin32Status_Hex =~ "775", "The referenced account is currently locked out and cannot be logged on to.",
scWin32Status_Hex =~ "52e", "Logon failure: Unknown user name or bad password.",
scWin32Status_Hex =~ "532", "Logon failure: The specified account password has expired.",
scWin32Status_Hex =~ "533", "Logon failure: Account currently disabled.",
scWin32Status_Hex =~ "2ee2", "The request has timed out.",
scWin32Status_Hex =~ "0", "The operation completed successfully.",
scWin32Status_Hex =~ "1", "Incorrect function.",
scWin32Status_Hex =~ "2", "The system cannot find the file specified.",
scWin32Status_Hex =~ "3", "The system cannot find the path specified.",
scWin32Status_Hex =~ "4", "The system cannot open the file.",
scWin32Status_Hex =~ "5", "Access is denied.",
scWin32Status_Hex =~ "8009030e", "SEC_E_NO_CREDENTIALS",
scWin32Status_Hex =~ "8009030C", "SEC_E_LOGON_DENIED",
"See - https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/cc231199.aspx")
// decode URI when available
| extend decodedUriQuery = url_decode(csUriQuery)
// Count of attempts by client IP on many ports
| summarize makeset(sPort), makeset(decodedUriQuery), makeset(csUserName), makeset(sSiteName), makeset(sPort), makeset(csUserAgent), makeset(csMethod), makeset(csUriQuery), makeset(scStatusFull), makeset(scStatusFull_Friendly), makeset(scWin32Status_Hex), makeset(scWin32Status_Friendly), ConnectionsCount = count() by bin(TimeGenerated, timeBin), cIP, Computer, sIP
| extend portCount = arraylength(set_sPort)
| where portCount >= portThreshold
| project TimeGenerated, cIP, set_sPort, set_csUserName, set_decodedUriQuery, Computer, set_sSiteName, sIP, set_csUserAgent, set_csMethod, set_scStatusFull, set_scStatusFull_Friendly, set_scWin32Status_Hex, set_scWin32Status_Friendly, ConnectionsCount, portCount
| order by portCount

Declared entities

IP

Source provenance

GitHub

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Source identifier
44a555d8-ecee-4a25-95ce-055879b4b14b
Additional source files 1Detections/W3CIISLog/HighPortCountByClientIP.yamlsource ↗
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Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC

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