{
  "$schema": "https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2019-04-01/deploymentTemplate.json#",
  "contentVersion": "1.0.0.0",
  "parameters": {
    "workspace": {
      "type": "String"
    }
  },
  "resources": [
    {
      "apiVersion": "2024-01-01-preview",
      "id": "[concat(resourceId('Microsoft.OperationalInsights/workspaces/providers', parameters('workspace'), 'Microsoft.SecurityInsights'),'/alertRules/f0be259a-34ac-4946-aa15-ca2b115d5feb')]",
      "kind": "Scheduled",
      "name": "[concat(parameters('workspace'),'/Microsoft.SecurityInsights/f0be259a-34ac-4946-aa15-ca2b115d5feb')]",
      "properties": {
        "alertRuleTemplateName": "f0be259a-34ac-4946-aa15-ca2b115d5feb",
        "customDetails": null,
        "description": "'Identifies beaconing patterns from Palo Alto Network traffic logs based on recurrent timedelta patterns.\nThe query leverages various KQL functions to calculate time deltas and then compares it with total events observed in a day to find percentage of beaconing.\nThis outbound beaconing pattern to untrusted public networks should be investigated for any malware callbacks or data exfiltration attempts.\nReference Blog:\nhttps://medium.com/@HuntOperator/detect-beaconing-with-flare-elastic-stack-and-intrusion-detection-systems-110dc74e0c56\nhttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-sentinel-blog/detect-network-beaconing-via-intra-request-time-delta-patterns/ba-p/779586'\n",
        "displayName": "Palo Alto - potential beaconing detected",
        "enabled": true,
        "entityMappings": [
          {
            "entityType": "Account",
            "fieldMappings": [
              {
                "columnName": "SourceUserID",
                "identifier": "FullName"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "entityType": "Host",
            "fieldMappings": [
              {
                "columnName": "DeviceName",
                "identifier": "FullName"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "entityType": "IP",
            "fieldMappings": [
              {
                "columnName": "DestinationIP",
                "identifier": "Address"
              }
            ]
          }
        ],
        "OriginalUri": "https://github.com/Azure/Azure-Sentinel/blob/master/Solutions/PaloAlto-PAN-OS/Analytic%20Rules/PaloAlto-NetworkBeaconing.yaml",
        "query": "let starttime = 2d;\nlet endtime = 1d;\nlet TimeDeltaThreshold = 25;\nlet TotalEventsThreshold = 30;\nlet MostFrequentTimeDeltaThreshold = 25;\nlet PercentBeaconThreshold = 80;\nCommonSecurityLog\n| where DeviceVendor == \"Palo Alto Networks\" and Activity == \"TRAFFIC\"\n| where TimeGenerated between (startofday(ago(starttime))..startofday(ago(endtime)))\n| where ipv4_is_private(DestinationIP)== false\n| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, SourceUserID, SourceIP, SourcePort, DestinationIP, DestinationPort, ReceivedBytes, SentBytes\n| sort by SourceIP asc,TimeGenerated asc, DestinationIP asc, DestinationPort asc\n| serialize\n| extend nextTimeGenerated = next(TimeGenerated, 1), nextSourceIP = next(SourceIP, 1)\n| extend TimeDeltainSeconds = datetime_diff('second',nextTimeGenerated,TimeGenerated)\n| where SourceIP == nextSourceIP\n//Whitelisting criteria/ threshold criteria\n| where TimeDeltainSeconds > TimeDeltaThreshold\n| summarize count(), sum(ReceivedBytes), sum(SentBytes)\nby TimeDeltainSeconds, bin(TimeGenerated, 1h), DeviceName, SourceUserID, SourceIP, DestinationIP, DestinationPort\n| summarize (MostFrequentTimeDeltaCount, MostFrequentTimeDeltainSeconds) = arg_max(count_, TimeDeltainSeconds), TotalEvents=sum(count_), TotalSentBytes = sum(sum_SentBytes), TotalReceivedBytes = sum(sum_ReceivedBytes)\nby bin(TimeGenerated, 1h), DeviceName, SourceUserID, SourceIP, DestinationIP, DestinationPort\n| where TotalEvents > TotalEventsThreshold and MostFrequentTimeDeltaCount > MostFrequentTimeDeltaThreshold\n| extend BeaconPercent = MostFrequentTimeDeltaCount/toreal(TotalEvents) * 100\n| where BeaconPercent > PercentBeaconThreshold\n",
        "queryFrequency": "P1D",
        "queryPeriod": "P2D",
        "severity": "Low",
        "status": "Available",
        "subTechniques": [],
        "suppressionDuration": "PT1H",
        "suppressionEnabled": false,
        "tactics": [
          "CommandAndControl"
        ],
        "techniques": [
          "T1071",
          "T1571"
        ],
        "templateVersion": "1.0.7",
        "triggerOperator": "GreaterThan",
        "triggerThreshold": 0
      },
      "type": "Microsoft.OperationalInsights/workspaces/providers/alertRules"
    }
  ]
}
