DNS Query to External Service Interaction Domains
Detects suspicious DNS queries to external service interaction domains often used for out-of-band interactions after successful RCE
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1title: DNS Query to External Service Interaction Domains
2id: aff715fa-4dd5-497a-8db3-910bea555566
3status: test
4description: |
5 Detects suspicious DNS queries to external service interaction domains often used for out-of-band interactions after successful RCE
6references:
7 - https://twitter.com/breakersall/status/1533493587828260866
8 - https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/businessinsights/bitdefender-advisory-critical-unauthenticated-rce-windows-server-update-services-cve-2025-59287
9 - https://github.com/SigmaHQ/sigma/pull/5724#issuecomment-3466382234
10author: Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), Matt Kelly (list of domains)
11date: 2022-06-07
12modified: 2025-11-22
13tags:
14 - attack.initial-access
15 - attack.t1190
16 - attack.reconnaissance
17 - attack.t1595.002
18logsource:
19 category: dns
20detection:
21 selection:
22 query|contains:
23 - '.burpcollaborator.net'
24 - '.canarytokens.com'
25 - '.ceye.io'
26 - '.ddns.1443.eu.org' # dig.pm
27 - '.ddns.bypass.eu.org' # dig.pm
28 - '.ddns.xn--gg8h.eu.org' # dig.pm
29 - '.dns.su18.org' # javaweb.org
30 - '.dnshook.site' # webhook.site
31 - '.dnslog.cn'
32 - '.dnslog.ink' # dnslog.ink
33 - '.interact.sh'
34 - '.log.dnslog.pp.ua' # dnslog.org
35 - '.log.dnslog.qzz.io' # dnslog.org
36 - '.log.dnslogs.dpdns.org' # dnslog.org
37 - '.log.javaweb.org' # javaweb.org
38 - '.log.nat.cloudns.ph' # dnslog.org
39 - '.oast.fun'
40 - '.oast.live'
41 - '.oast.me'
42 - '.oast.online'
43 - '.oast.pro'
44 - '.oast.site'
45 - '.oastify.com'
46 - '.p8.lol' # javaweb.org
47 - '.requestbin.net'
48 filter_main_polling:
49 query|contains: 'polling.oastify.com'
50 condition: selection and not 1 of filter_main_*
51falsepositives:
52 - Legitimate security scanning.
53level: high
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