Splunk Search

Search based on different requests?

karatyman
Engager

Hello,

I'm trying to create a search that will allow me to search a subnet for requests made from a single source IP to more than X amount of destination IPS.

for example,

if 10.10.10.10 sends traffic over port 445 to all the devices in the range 10.10.10.11- 10.10.10.50 therefore 40 different Destinations
and 10.10.10.20 sent traffic over port 445 to 10.10.10.70 and 10.10.10.66 therefore 2 different destinations.

I wouldn't want to see the traffic sent from 10.10.10.20 as the total number of destination IPs is too low.

Is it possible to do something like:

src_ip=10.10.10.0/24 dest_port=445 dest_ip_count>=10

src_ip=10.10.10.0/24 -- Range of IPs I want to search for traffic on
dest_port=445 -- Port the traffic is being sent on
dest_ip_count>=10 Theoretical parameter that filters out source IPs not sending traffic to 10+ different devices

Thanks

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lguinn2
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You can do exactly what you asked, and the syntax is not that far from your description!

src_ip=10.10.10.0/24 dest_port=445
| stats dc(dest_ip) as unique_dest_ips by src_ip
| where unique_dest_ips > 10

The dc function of the stats command counts the number of unique occurrences of a field. In this case, it is counting the number of unique destination ips used by each source ip. Note that Splunk accepts CIDR notation in the search, no problem.

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