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Rare client observed with high reverse DNS lookup count - Static threshold based (ASIM DNS Solution)
Description
'This rule identifies clients with high reverse DNS counts, which could be carrying out reconnaissance or discovery activity. This helps in detecting the possible initial phases of an attack, like discovery and reconnaissance. It utilizes [ASIM](https://aka.ms/AboutASIM) normalization and is applied to any source that supports the ASIM DNS schema.'
- Rule type
- Scheduled
- Version
- 1.0.2
- Declared status
- Available
- Query frequency
- 1d
- Query period
- 10d
- Trigger
- gt 0
Declared MITRE coverage
KQL query
Original query, unchanged.
let threshold = 10;
let stime = 10d;
let etime = 1d;
let SearchDomain = dynamic(["in-addr.arpa"]);
_Im_Dns(starttime=ago(etime), domain_has_any=SearchDomain)
| summarize
StartTimeUtc = min(TimeGenerated),
EndTimeUtc = max(TimeGenerated),
DNSQueryCount=dcount(DnsQuery)
by SrcIpAddr
| where DNSQueryCount > threshold
| project StartTimeUtc, EndTimeUtc, SrcIpAddr, DNSQueryCount
| join kind=leftanti (_Im_Dns(starttime=ago(stime), endtime=ago(etime), domain_has_any=SearchDomain)
| summarize DNSQueryCount=dcount(DnsQuery) by SrcIpAddr, bin(TimeGenerated, 1d)
| where DNSQueryCount > threshold
| project SrcIpAddr, DNSQueryCount
)
on SrcIpAddr
| join kind=inner (_Im_Dns(starttime=ago(etime), domain_has_any=SearchDomain)
| summarize DNSQueries=make_set(DnsQuery, 1000) by SrcIpAddr)
on SrcIpAddr
| extend DNSQuerythreshold = threshold
| project-away SrcIpAddr1
Declared entities
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Source provenance
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- Commit
9800e51↗- Source identifier
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Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC