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Splunk Enterprise Security: How to filter geographically improbable logins over small distances?

vanderhoff
Explorer

In Splunk Enterprise Security, the geographically improbable login correlation fires when users on our network transition between ipv4 and ipv6 due to the different latitude fields in the geoip database. Is there a way to filter out results by distance value?

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jstoner_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

The rule by default looks for speed of more than 500. However, there is an evaluation of distance as well that is used to calculate speed. You could add a condition for distance being greater than x miles and/or swapping out the speed threshold.

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renjujacob88
Path Finder

| tstats summariesonly values(Authentication.app) as app, latest(Authentication.user_bunit) as user_bunit from datamodel=Authentication.Authentication by Authentication.user,Authentication.src _time span=1s | drop_dm_object_name("Authentication") | eventstats dc(src) as src_count by user | search src_count>1 | sort 0 + _time| get_asset(src) | iplocation src | eval session_lat=if(isnull(src_lat), lat, src_lat) | eval session_lon=if(isnull(src_long), lon, src_long) | eval session_city=if(isnull(src_city), City, src_city) | where isnotnull(session_lat) and isnotnull(session_lon) | sort 0 + _time | streamstats current=t window=2 earliest(session_lat) as prev_lat, earliest(session_lon) as prev_lon, earliest(session_city) as prev_city, earliest(_time) as prev_time, earliest(src) as prev_src, latest(user_bunit) as user_bunit by user | where (src!=prev_src) | globedistance(session_lat,session_lon,prev_lat,prev_lon,"m") | eval time_diff=if((_time-prev_time)==0, 1, _time - prev_time) | eval speed = round(distance*3600/time_diff,2)| where speed>1

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jstoner_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

The rule by default looks for speed of more than 500. However, there is an evaluation of distance as well that is used to calculate speed. You could add a condition for distance being greater than x miles and/or swapping out the speed threshold.

vanderhoff
Explorer

Thanks I didn't realize I could edit the correlation searches, adding a "where distance > 1" did the trick.

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