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Corelight - C2 DGA Detected Via Repetitive Failures

Description

'Detects large amounts of DNS resolution failures.'
Rule type
Scheduled
Version
2.2.0
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.

let threshold = 25;
union isfuzzy=true corelight_dns, corelight_dns_agg
// rcodes: SERVFAIL=2, NXDOMAIN=3
| where rcode in (2, 3)
| summarize count() by query, id_orig_h, bin(TimeGenerated, 5m)
| where count_ > threshold

Declared entities

IP

Related content

Links established from declared identifiers and solution manifests.

Source provenance

GitHub

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Source identifier
8eaa2268-74ee-492c-b869-450eff707fef
Additional source files 2Solutions/Corelight/Analytic Rules/CorelightC2RepetitiveFailures.yamlsource ↗Solutions/Corelight/Data/Solution_Corelight.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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