WebProxy Event Analysis CheatSheet 1.0.1

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Web Proxy Event Analysis Cheat Sheet

Version 1.0.1
Florian Roth @cyb3rops and the community

Attribute Less Relevant Relevant Highly Relevant
Category All other categories Content Delivery Networks Uncategorized
Government/Legal Computer/Information Security
Internet Connected Devices Dynamic DNS Host
Phishing Hacking
Potentially Unwanted Software Malicious Outbound Data/Botnets
Remote Access Malicious Sources/Malnets
Suspicious “Newly Created Domains”
Web Hosting
Web Infrastructure
User Agent - Random Characters *PowerShell/*
Empty Microsoft-CryptoAPI/*
Very Short (<20 Chars, e.g. “Mozilla”) CertUtil*
Mozilla/4.0 Microsoft BITS*
Mozilla/3.0 * WinHttp* (Macro Downloader)
Mozilla/2.0 curl/*
Mozilla * (no slash after Mozilla) Googlebot*

See User Agent Sigma Rules1 with


“proxy_ua_” prefix
Source System CERT / CSIRT machines Workstation Domain Controller
Security Appliances Other Servers Print Server
DMZ Server
Jump Server
Admin Workstation
Blocked File Files > 10 MB Not Archived / Extracted Uncommon Archive (RAR, 7z, encrypted
Common Archive (ZIP) Archive)

File Extensions: .EXE .PNG .GIF .ASP


.ASPX .BAT .CHM .HTA .JSP .JSPX
.LNK .PHP .PS1 .SCF .TXT .VBS .WAR
.WSF .WSH .XML .ISO .RAR .7z .JAR
Scan Result - - Scan Errors: Unknown compression,
password protected, DLP etc.)
User - Regular Users Service Accounts
Domain Administrators
Local Administrators
Guest Account
Time - Regular Work Hours Outside Regular Work Hours
Bytes In / Out - Big requests (uploads)
SSL/TLS - Invalid Certificate Revoked Certificate
Newly Created Certificates
Remote Host - Hosting Service (e.g. *.amazonaws.com) IP address in URL
raw.* (e.g. raw.githubusercontent.com)
URL Entropy - High Entropy2
Method GET, HEAD POST CONNECT
POST (without GET from same source)
Target Port Unequal 443/tcp and 80/tcp


1
https://github.com/Neo23x0/sigma/tree/master/rules/proxy
2
https://www.splunk.com/en_us/blog/tips-and-tricks/when-entropy-meets-shannon.html

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