Splunk Enterprise Security

ES Tuning Question

edwardrose
Contributor

Hello All,

I am working on tuning the Network-Unroutable Host Activity -Rule search and we are trying to exclude our VPN networks and DNS hosts that are sending data to 192.0.0.0 from the search. I thought I could run a loop for every IP address of our dns servers. Here is what I added to the fully blown out search but it does not seem to be working like I thought it would.

| tstats prestats=true local=false summariesonly=true allow_old_summaries=true count,values(sourcetype) from datamodel=Network_Traffic.All_Traffic where All_Traffic.action=allowed by All_Traffic.src,All_Traffic.dest 
| rename "All_Traffic.*" as "*" 
| tstats prestats=true local=false summariesonly=true allow_old_summaries=true append=true count,values(sourcetype) from datamodel=Intrusion_Detection.IDS_Attacks by IDS_Attacks.src,IDS_Attacks.dest 
| rename "IDS_Attacks.*" as "*" 
| tstats prestats=true local=false summariesonly=true allow_old_summaries=true append=true count,values(sourcetype) from datamodel=Web.Web by Web.src,Web.dest 
| rename "Web.*" as "*" 
| stats count,values(sourcetype) as sourcetype by src,dest 
| lookup local=true bogonlist_lookup_by_cidr ip AS "src" OUTPUTNEW is_bogon AS "src_is_bogon",is_internal AS "src_is_internal" 
| lookup local=true bogonlist_lookup_by_cidr ip AS "dest" OUTPUTNEW is_bogon AS "dest_is_bogon",is_internal AS "dest_is_internal" 
| search (NOT dest=169.254.* NOT src=169.254.* ((dest_is_internal!=true dest_is_bogon=true) OR (src_is_internal!=true src_is_bogon=true))) 
| search (NOT dest=[| inputlookup mentor_assets.csv | search nt_host="*-ddi-*" | table ip] NOT src=[| inputlookup mentor_assets.csv | search nt_host="*-ddi-*" | table ip]  ((dest_is_internal!=true dest_is_bogon=true) OR (src_is_internal!=true src_is_bogon=true)))
| eval bogon_ip=if(((dest_is_bogon == "true") AND (dest_is_internal != "true")),dest,bogon_ip), bogon_ip=if(((src_is_bogon == "true") AND (src_is_internal != "true")),src,bogon_ip) 
| fields + sourcetype, src, dest, bogon_ip

I added the following line:

| search (NOT dest=[| inputlookup mentor_assets.csv | search nt_host="*-ddi-*" | table ip] NOT src=[| inputlookup mentor_assets.csv | search nt_host="*-ddi-*" | table ip]  ((dest_is_internal!=true dest_is_bogon=true) OR (src_is_internal!=true src_is_bogon=true)))

But like I stated it does not seem to be working like I thought it should. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
ed

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