[metadata] creation_date = "2020/02/18" deprecation_date = "2023/09/25" integration = ["endpoint"] maturity = "deprecated" min_stack_comments = "New fields added: required_fields, related_integrations, setup" min_stack_version = "8.3.0" updated_date = "2023/09/25" [rule] author = ["Elastic"] description = """ Iodine is a tool for tunneling Internet protocol version 4 (IPV4) traffic over the DNS protocol to circumvent firewalls, network security groups, and network access lists while evading detection. """ false_positives = [ """ Normal use of Iodine is uncommon apart from security testing and research. Use by non-security engineers is very uncommon. """, ] from = "now-9m" index = ["auditbeat-*", "logs-endpoint.events.*", "endgame-*"] language = "kuery" license = "Elastic License v2" name = "Deprecated - Potential DNS Tunneling via Iodine" note = "This rule was deprecated due to its addition to the umbrella `Potential Linux Tunneling and/or Port Forwarding` (6ee947e9-de7e-4281-a55d-09289bdf947e) rule." references = ["https://code.kryo.se/iodine/"] risk_score = 73 rule_id = "041d4d41-9589-43e2-ba13-5680af75ebc2" severity = "high" tags = [ "Domain: Endpoint", "OS: Linux", "Use Case: Threat Detection", "Tactic: Command and Control", "Data Source: Elastic Endgame", "Data Source: Elastic Defend", ] timestamp_override = "event.ingested" type = "query" query = ''' event.category:process and host.os.type:linux and event.type:(start or process_started) and process.name:(iodine or iodined) ''' [[rule.threat]] framework = "MITRE ATT&CK" [[rule.threat.technique]] id = "T1572" name = "Protocol Tunneling" reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1572/" [rule.threat.tactic] id = "TA0011" name = "Command and Control" reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0011/"