title: Bitsadmin to Uncommon TLD status: experimental description: Detects Bitsadmin connections to domains with uncommon TLDs - https://twitter.com/jhencinski/status/1102695118455349248 - https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Investigating+Microsoft+BITS+Activity/23281/ author: Florian Roth date: 2019/03/07 logsource: category: proxy detection: selection: UserAgent: - 'Microsoft BITS/*' falsepositives: r-dns: - '*.com' - '*.net' - '*.org' condition: selection and not falsepositives fields: - ClientIP - URL - UserAgent falsepositives: - Rare programs that use Bitsadmin and update from regional TLDs e.g. .uk or .ca level: high