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Palo Alto - possible internal to external port scanning

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Description

'Identifies a list of internal Source IPs (10.x.x.x Hosts) that have triggered 10 or more non-graceful tcp server resets from one or more Destination IPs which results in an "ApplicationProtocol = incomplete" designation. The server resets coupled with an "Incomplete" ApplicationProtocol designation can be an indication of internal to external port scanning or probing attack. References: https://knowledgebase.paloaltonetworks.com/KCSArticleDetail?id=kA10g000000ClUvCAK and https://knowledgebase.paloaltonetworks.com/KCSArticleDetail?id=kA10g000000ClTaCAK'
Rule type
Scheduled
Version
1.0.8
Declared status
Available
Query frequency
1h
Query period
1h
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.

CommonSecurityLog
| where isnotempty(DestinationPort) and DeviceAction !in ("reset-both", "deny")
// filter out common usage ports. Add ports that are legitimate for your environment
| where DestinationPort !in ("443", "53", "389", "80", "0", "880", "8888", "8080")
| where ApplicationProtocol == "incomplete"
// filter out IANA ephemeral or negotiated ports as per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephemeral_port
| where DestinationPort !between (toint(49512) .. toint(65535))
| where Computer != ""
| where ipv4_is_private(DestinationIP) == false
| extend Reason = coalesce(
                              column_ifexists("Reason", ""),
                              extract("reason=(.+?)(;|$)", 1, AdditionalExtensions),
                              ""
                          )
// Filter out any graceful reset reasons of AGED OUT which occurs when a TCP session closes with a FIN due to aging out.
| where Reason !has "aged-out"
// Filter out any TCP FIN which occurs when a TCP FIN is used to gracefully close half or both sides of a connection.
| where Reason !has "tcp-fin"
// Uncomment one of the following where clauses to trigger on specific TCP reset reasons
// See Palo Alto article for details - https://knowledgebase.paloaltonetworks.com/KCSArticleDetail?id=kA10g000000ClUvCAK
// TCP RST-server - Occurs when the server sends a TCP reset to the client
// | where AdditionalExtensions has "reason=tcp-rst-from-server"
// TCP RST-client - Occurs when the client sends a TCP reset to the server
// | where AdditionalExtensions has "reason=tcp-rst-from-client"
// Already performed
//| extend reason = tostring(split(AdditionalExtensions, ";")[3])
| summarize StartTimeUtc = min(TimeGenerated), EndTimeUtc = max(TimeGenerated), count() by DeviceName, SourceUserID, SourceIP, ApplicationProtocol, Reason, DestinationPort, Protocol, DeviceVendor, DeviceProduct, DeviceAction, DestinationIP
| where count_ >= 10
| summarize StartTimeUtc = min(StartTimeUtc), EndTimeUtc = max(EndTimeUtc), makeset(DestinationIP), totalcount = sum(count_) by DeviceName, SourceUserID, SourceIP, ApplicationProtocol, Reason, DestinationPort, Protocol, DeviceVendor, DeviceProduct, DeviceAction

Declared entities

AccountHostIP

Related content

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Source provenance

GitHub

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Source identifier
5b72f527-e3f6-4a00-9908-8e4fee14da9f
Additional source files 3Solutions/PaloAlto-PAN-OS/Analytic Rules/PaloAlto-PortScanning.yamlsource ↗Detections/CommonSecurityLog/PaloAlto-PortScanning.yamlmigration-note ↗Solutions/PaloAlto-PAN-OS/data/Solution_PaloAlto-PAN-OS.jsonsolution-membership ↗
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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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