Detectors
Every Cortex detection rule the toolbox knows about — analytics alerts, BIOCs and correlation rules — in one filterable set.
239 detectors match the current filters.
Download CSV| Type | Name | Severity | Module | Data source / event | ATT&CK |
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| Analytics | A cloud identity performed multiple unusual activities A cloud identity performed multiple unusual activities across various cloud services. | Medium | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log | Execution |
| Analytics | A compromised process accessed a rare cloud resource A compromised process accessed a rare cloud resource. | Informational | Platform Analytics | XDR Agent, XDR Agent with eXtended Threat Hunting (XTH) | Command and Control |
| Analytics | A compromised process accessed a rare external host A compromised process accessed a rare external host. | Low | Platform Analytics | XDR Agent, XDR Agent with eXtended Threat Hunting (XTH) | Command and Control |
| Analytics | A contained process attempted to escape using the 'notify on release' feature A contained process attempted to escape the host by leveraging the Docker's 'notify on release' feature. The calling process modified relevant files that might trigger a command on the host. | Medium | Platform Analytics | XDR Agent with eXtended Threat Hunting (XTH) | Privilege Escalation |
| Analytics | A new machine attempted Kerberos delegation A newly created machine attempted to perform a Kerberos delegation. This suspicious activity might indicate a Kerberos relay attack. | Medium | Identity Analytics | Windows Event Collector, XDR Agent with eXtended Threat Hunting (XTH) | Privilege Escalation |
| Analytics | A user accessed an abnormal number of files on a remote shared folder A user remotely accessed an abnormal number of files on a remote shared folder. This might indicate an attempt to collect data before exfiltration. | Informational | Identity Threat Detection (ITDR) | XDR Agent with eXtended Threat Hunting (XTH) | Discovery |
| Analytics | A user accessed an abnormal number of remote shared folders A user accessed an abnormal number of remote shared folders. This might indicate an attempt to collect data before exfiltration. | Informational | Identity Threat Detection (ITDR) | XDR Agent with eXtended Threat Hunting (XTH) | Collection |
| Analytics | A user accessed multiple time-consuming websites A user was observed visiting multiple domains for personal reasons. Time theft happens when an employee is paid to work but did not actually work during that time. It might affect your business as it reduces the employee's efficiency. | Informational | Identity Threat Detection (ITDR), SaaS Threat Detection | Palo Alto Networks Firewall EAL Logs, Palo Alto Networks Firewall threat Logs, Palo Alto Networks Firewall EAL Logs, XDR Agent | Reconnaissance |
| Analytics | A user accessed multiple unusual resources via SSO A user accessed multiple resources via SSO that are unusual for this user. This may be indicative of a compromised account. | Informational | Identity Threat Detection (ITDR), SaaS Threat Detection | AzureAD, Azure SignIn Log, Idira, Duo, Okta, OneLogin, PingOne | Discovery, Initial Access |
| Analytics | A user authenticated with weak NTLM to multiple hosts A user account authenticated to multiple hosts via NTLMv1 or LM authentication for the first time in the past 30 days. | Informational | Identity Analytics | XDR Agent | Lateral Movement |
| Analytics | A user connected a new USB storage device to multiple hosts A user connected a new USB storage device to multiple endpoints. | Low | Identity Threat Detection (ITDR) | XDR Agent with eXtended Threat Hunting (XTH) | Collection, Exfiltration |
| Analytics | A user established an SMB connection to multiple hosts A user established an SMB connection to multiple hosts. This might indicate an enumeration attempt by a compromised account. | Informational | Identity Analytics | XDR Agent with eXtended Threat Hunting (XTH) | Lateral Movement |
| Analytics | A user executed multiple LDAP enumeration queries A user executed multiple LDAP enumeration queries. | Informational | Identity Analytics | XDR Agent with eXtended Threat Hunting (XTH) | Discovery |
| Analytics | A user logged on to multiple workstations via Schannel A user logged on to multiple workstations with a certificate via Schannel. This may be indicative of a compromised account. | Informational | Identity Analytics | XDR Agent | Persistence, Privilege Escalation, Credential Access |
| Analytics | A user observed and reported unusual activity in Okta A user observed and reported unusual activity in Okta. | Informational | Identity Threat Detection (ITDR), SaaS Threat Detection | Okta Audit Log | Initial Access |
| Analytics | A user performed suspiciously massive file activity A user generated massive file activity by size or distinct file count. | Informational | Identity Threat Detection (ITDR) | XDR Agent with eXtended Threat Hunting (XTH) | Collection |
| Analytics | A user printed an unusual number of files A user printed an unusual number of files. This may be indicative of malicious activity and an attempt to exfiltrate data. | Informational | Identity Threat Detection (ITDR) | Windows Event Collector, XDR Agent with eXtended Threat Hunting (XTH) | Exfiltration |
| Analytics | A user received multiple weakly encrypted service tickets A user received multiple weakly encrypted service tickets. This is typically a sign of a Kerberoasting attack. | Informational | Identity Analytics | Windows Event Collector, XDR Agent with eXtended Threat Hunting (XTH) | Credential Access |
| Analytics | A user rejected an SSO request from an unusual country A user rejected an SSO authentication request from an abnormal country. | Low | Identity Analytics | Okta, OneLogin | Credential Access, Resource Development |
| Analytics | A user requested multiple service tickets A user requested multiple service tickets. This is typically a sign of a Kerberoasting attack. | Informational | Identity Analytics | Windows Event Collector, XDR Agent with eXtended Threat Hunting (XTH) | Credential Access |
| Analytics | A user sent multiple TGT requests to irregular service A user sent multiple TGT requests to services other than KRBTGT and KADMIN. This is typically a sign of a Kerberoasting attack. | Low | Identity Analytics | Windows Event Collector, XDR Agent with eXtended Threat Hunting (XTH) | Credential Access |
| Analytics | A user took numerous screenshots A user took numerous screenshots. A valuable organization's information may have been collected in this way. | Informational | Identity Threat Detection (ITDR) | XDR Agent with eXtended Threat Hunting (XTH) | Collection |
| Analytics | A user uploaded malware to SharePoint or OneDrive A user uploaded a file that was classified as malware to SharePoint or OneDrive. | Low | Identity Threat Detection (ITDR), SaaS Threat Detection | Office 365 Audit | Lateral Movement, Execution |
| Analytics | Abnormal Allocation of compute resources in multiple regions An identity allocated an unusual compute resource pool, suspected as mining activity. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log | Impact, Initial Access |
| Analytics | Abnormal connections to a dormant host from a newly seen endpoint The endpoint has performed multiple connections to an endpoint that is relatively inactive on the network. | Informational | Platform Analytics | Palo Alto Networks Firewall traffic Logs, XDR Agent | Discovery |
| Analytics | Abnormal File Activity in SCCMContentLib Shared Folder by user A user generated suspicious file activity within the SCCMContentLib shared folder, which is considered a high-value target for attackers. | Informational | Identity Analytics | XDR Agent with eXtended Threat Hunting (XTH) | Credential Access, Privilege Escalation |
| Analytics | Abnormal ICMP echo (PING) to multiple hosts An endpoint performed an abnormal ICMP echo (PING) to multiple hosts on the network. | Low | Platform Analytics | XDR Agent | Discovery |
| Analytics | Abnormal increase in network-related alerts on the same host Abnormal increase in network-related alerts on the same host. | Low | Platform Analytics | Palo Alto Networks Platform Alerts, Third-Party Alerts | Execution |
| Analytics | Abnormal RDP connections to multiple hosts The endpoint attempted to initiate rare RDP connections to multiple hosts. | Informational | Platform Analytics | XDR Agent | Lateral Movement |
| Analytics | Abnormal RDP connections to multiple hosts from a rarely seen host The endpoint attempted to initiate rare RDP connections to multiple hosts. | Low | Platform Analytics | XDR Agent | Lateral Movement |
| Analytics | Abnormal RPC traffic to multiple hosts The endpoint performed unfamiliar RPC activity to multiple hosts. | Low | Platform Analytics | Palo Alto Networks Firewall EAL Logs, XDR Agent with eXtended Threat Hunting (XTH) | Reconnaissance |
| Analytics | Abnormal sensitive RPC traffic to multiple hosts The endpoint performed unfamiliar RPC activity to multiple hosts using a known sensitive interface. | Low | Platform Analytics | Palo Alto Networks Firewall EAL Logs, XDR Agent with eXtended Threat Hunting (XTH) | Lateral Movement |
| Analytics | Abnormal sensitive RPC traffic to multiple hosts from a rarely seen host The endpoint performed unfamiliar RPC activity to multiple hosts using a known sensitive interface. | Low | Platform Analytics | Palo Alto Networks Firewall EAL Logs, XDR Agent with eXtended Threat Hunting (XTH) | Lateral Movement |
| Analytics | Abnormal SMB activity to multiple hosts An endpoint performed a new, unfamiliar SMB activity to multiple hosts on the network. | Low | Platform Analytics | XDR Agent | Lateral Movement |
| Analytics | Abnormal SMB scanning activity to multiple hosts An endpoint performed a new, unfamiliar SMB scanning activity to multiple hosts on the network. | Informational | Platform Analytics | XDR Agent | Reconnaissance |
| Analytics | Account probing A user failed to log in to multiple hosts it never accessed before in a short amount of time. This may indicate the account is compromised and an attacker is probing for a host it can access with those credentials. | Low | Identity Analytics | XDR Agent | Initial Access, Credential Access |
| Analytics | AI model discovery A cloud identity listed available AI models. This behavior often suggests reconnaissance on AI models and potential misuse. MITRE ATLAS Technique: AML.T0007 - Discover ML Artifacts. | Low | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log | Discovery |
| Analytics | AI-determined combination of risky alerts under the same actor process Multiple alerts likely to be associated with an incident were identified under the same actor process. | Informational | Platform Analytics | Palo Alto Networks Platform Alerts, Third-Party Alerts | Execution |
| Analytics | AI-determined combination of risky alerts under the same causality Multiple alerts likely to be associated with an incident were identified under the same causality. | Informational | Platform Analytics | Palo Alto Networks Platform Alerts, Third-Party Alerts | Execution |
| Analytics | Allocation of multiple cloud compute resources An identity allocated multiple compute resources. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log | Impact, Initial Access |
| Analytics | An Azure identity performed multiple actions that were denied An identity performed multiple Microsoft Graph actions that were denied, which may indicate it is being misused. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | Azure Audit Log, Microsoft Graph Logs | Discovery |
| Analytics | An executable was written and executed by a web server Web server process had written an executable file that was executed shortly after. | Low | Platform Analytics | XDR Agent with eXtended Threat Hunting (XTH) | Persistence |
| Analytics | An identity initiated a download of multiple cloud objects An identity initiated a download of multiple cloud objects. This might be an indication for an adversary trying to exfiltrate data from cloud storage. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log | Collection, Exfiltration |
| Analytics | An identity performed a suspicious download of multiple cloud storage objects An identity downloaded multiple objects from cloud storage. This may indicate an attacker's attempt to download sensitive data from a bucket in the cloud environment. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log | Collection, Exfiltration |
| Analytics | An identity successfully extracted multiple secrets within the organization An identity successfully dumped multiple secrets from the project. This may indicate an attacker's attempt to dump sensitive information from the cloud environment. | Low | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Credential Access |
| Analytics | An internal Cloud resource performed port scan on external networks An internal cloud resource attempted to connect to the same destination port of multiple external IP addresses. This may be a result of the cloud resource being hijacked by an attacker. Attackers perform port scans on a specific destination port for reconnaissance purposes, to detect known vulnerable services that accept connections in the specific port, and perform targeted attacks against them. | Medium | Cortex Cloud | XDR Agent | Discovery, Impact |
| Analytics | An unsigned process created scheduled task and performed an injection An unsigned process created scheduled task and performed an injection. | Medium | Platform Analytics | XDR Agent | Persistence, Defense Evasion |
| Analytics | An unusual process in ingress-nginx has accessed a service-account token file An unusual process in ingress-nginx has read a service-account token. | High | Cortex Cloud | XDR Agent with eXtended Threat Hunting (XTH) | Initial Access, Credential Access |
| Analytics | AWS Bedrock AI infrastructure enumeration activity Bedrock AI infrastructure enumeration activity detected, potentially indicating reconnaissance on AI resources. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Discovery |
| Analytics | AWS EBS enumeration activity EBS volume and snapshot enumeration activity, potentially indicating block storage reconnaissance. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Discovery |
| Analytics | AWS EC2 infrastructure enumeration activity EC2 infrastructure enumeration activity detected within a specific AWS region. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Discovery |
| Analytics | AWS Lambda infrastructure enumeration activity Lambda infrastructure enumeration activity detected within a specific AWS region. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Discovery |
| Analytics | AWS S3 Buckets enumeration activity Enumeration of S3 buckets, suggesting potential cloud storage reconnaissance. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Discovery |
| Analytics | AWS Security Service Enumeration AWS security service enumeration activity, potentially indicating reconnaissance. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Discovery |
| Analytics | Azure enumeration activity using Microsoft Graph API The Microsoft Graph API was used to enumerate an Azure tenant. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | Azure Audit Log, Microsoft Graph Logs | Discovery |
| Analytics | Azure Privilege Escalation Using an Application An Azure application was observed assigning an Azure administrator role to a user. This might indicate a privilege escalation attempt. | Medium | Identity Threat Detection (ITDR) | AzureAD Audit Log, Microsoft Graph Logs, Office 365 Audit, Okta, Palo Alto Networks Global Protect, Third-Party VPNs, XDR Agent, XDR Agent with eXtended Threat Hunting (XTH) | Privilege Escalation |
| Analytics | Brute-force attempt on a local account A local user account failed to log in multiple times in a short time period. This may indicate a brute-force attack. | Informational | Identity Analytics | XDR Agent | Credential Access |
| Analytics | Cloud email infrastructure enumeration activity A cloud identity attempted to discover available email sending resources within the cloud environment. This may indicate an adversary attempting to map the organization's email sending environment and discover cloud resources that may assist to send phishing emails or spam. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log | Discovery |
| Analytics | Cloud IMDS access followed by remote token usage A request was made to the cloud Instance Metadata Service (IMDS) followed by a remote usage of EC2 role token. | Medium | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, XDR Agent | Initial Access, Credential Access |
| Analytics | Cloud infrastructure discovery across multiple regions Discovery API calls were executed across multiple AWS regions. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Discovery |
| Analytics | Cloud infrastructure enumeration activity A cloud identity attempted to discover available resources within the cloud environment. This may indicate an adversary attempting to map the organization's cloud environment and discover cloud resources that may assist to perform additional attacks within the environment. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log | Discovery |
| Analytics | Cloud user performed multiple actions that were denied An identity performed multiple actions that were denied, which may indicate it is being misused. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log | Discovery |
| Analytics | Command execution via AWS SSM A cloud identity performed multiple unusual activities leading to code execution using AWS Systems Manager service. | Medium | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Execution, Lateral Movement |
| Analytics | Data exfiltration from cloud database An identity tries to exfiltrate data from cloud database, as indicated by multiple signals. | Low | Cortex Cloud | Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log | Exfiltration, Collection |
| Analytics | Deletion of multiple cloud resources An identity deleted multiple cloud resources. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log | Impact |
| Analytics | DNS Tunneling 10 KB or more were sent encoded in subdomain names during a 10-minute window. All subdomains queried were under a single suspicious domain. DNS tunneling encodes data in DNS queries and responses, allowing an attacker to bypass firewalls and proxies to reach his or her command and control server, even when HTTP/S traffic is blocked. The endpoint may be remotely controlled by an attacker, and/or an attacker may have exfiltrated data from it. This detector is not supported when networking events arrive solely from Cortex XDR Linux agents. | Low | Platform Analytics | Palo Alto Networks Firewall EAL Logs, XDR Agent | Command and Control, Exfiltration |
| Analytics | Download pattern that resembles Peer to Peer traffic A possible P2P protocol was spotted from an internal host. | Informational | Platform Analytics | Palo Alto Networks Firewall traffic Logs, XDR Agent | Command and Control, Initial Access |
| Analytics | EC2 backdoor created with newly added external SSH or RDP access EC2 instance created with an administrator instance profile and a newly added external SSH or RDP access. | High | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Persistence |
| Analytics | Excessive user account lockouts A high amount of user accounts were locked out from a single source host in a short time period. This may be the result of a brute-force or password spray attack. | Low | Identity Analytics | Windows Event Collector, XDR Agent with eXtended Threat Hunting (XTH) | Credential Access |
| Analytics | Exchange mailbox delegation permissions added A user added delegation permissions to an Exchange mailbox. | Informational | Identity Threat Detection (ITDR), SaaS Threat Detection, Email Security | Office 365 Audit | Persistence |
| Analytics | External Login Password Spray An abnormally high amount of user account login attempts were seen on a host within a short period of time. This may have resulted from a login password spray attack. | Informational | Identity Analytics | XDR Agent | Credential Access |
| Analytics | External SaaS file-sharing activity A user shared files from within a SaaS service to an external domain. | Informational | Identity Threat Detection (ITDR), SaaS Threat Detection | Box Audit Log, DropBox, Google Workspace Audit Logs, Office 365 Audit | Collection |
| Analytics | External user call via Microsoft Teams An external user called a user in the organization via Microsoft Teams. | Informational | Identity Threat Detection (ITDR), SaaS Threat Detection | Office 365 Audit | Initial Access |
| Analytics | External user created a Microsoft Teams conversation with suspicious operations An external user created a Microsoft Teams conversation with users in the organization with additional suspicious operations. | Informational | Identity Threat Detection (ITDR), SaaS Threat Detection | Office 365 Audit | Initial Access |
| Analytics | External user started a Microsoft Teams conversation An external user started a Microsoft Teams conversation with users in the organization. | Informational | Identity Threat Detection (ITDR), SaaS Threat Detection | Office 365 Audit | Initial Access |
| Analytics | Failed Connections The endpoint has failed connections to other endpoints that have been inactive for more than 24 hours, or that Cortex XDR Analytics has never seen on the network. The endpoint has made an abnormally large number of these failed connections and/or is attempting to connect to an abnormal mixture of missing or inactive endpoints. Your network might contain legitimate scanners that could cause a false positive for this alert. Cortex XDR Analytics attempts to filter these out by checking if a scanner has been active for a long consecutive period of time. Consequently, if this alert is seen, it represents new activity on your network. An attacker may be trying to move laterally, or to scan different parts of the network to look for other endpoints that expose a specific service. Worms also perform a similar activity to automatically infect additional hosts in the network. | Low | Platform Analytics | Palo Alto Networks Firewall traffic Logs, XDR Agent, Third-Party Firewalls | Discovery |
| Analytics | Failed DNS The endpoint is performing DNS lookups that are failing at an excessively high rate when compared to its peer group. This alert might be symptomatic of malware that is trying to connect to its command and control (C2) servers. The attacker's C2 server runs on one or more domains that can eventually be identified and blacklisted. To avoid this, malware will sometimes use Domain Generation Algorithms (DGA) that produce many domain names every day. Because only a few of these domains are ever registered, the installed malware must blindly try to access each generated domain name in an effort to locate an active one. | Low | Platform Analytics | Palo Alto Networks Firewall EAL Logs, XDR Agent | Command and Control |
| Analytics | HTTP with suspicious characteristics Uncommon HTTP communication was performed by the host that might indicate its attempt to hide malicious activities. | Low | Platform Analytics | Palo Alto Networks Firewall EAL Logs, XDR Agent | Command and Control, Exfiltration |
| Analytics | IAM Enumeration sequence An identity has executed a sequence of events which may be related to an IAM recon enumeration. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log | Discovery |
| Analytics | Impossible travel by a cloud identity Cloud identity activity detected from distant geographic regions within an short time window. This suggests unauthorized use of credentials, possibly indicating a compromised account. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log | Initial Access |
| Analytics | Impossible traveler - SSO User connected from several remote countries, at least one of which is not commonly used in the organization, within a short period of time. This may indicate the account is compromised. | Low | Identity Analytics | AzureAD, Azure SignIn Log, Idira, Duo, Okta, OneLogin, PingOne | Credential Access, Resource Development |
| Analytics | Impossible traveler - VPN A user connected to a VPN service from multiple remote countries in a short period of time, which should normally be impossible. This may indicate the account is compromised. | Low | Identity Analytics | Palo Alto Networks Global Protect, Third-Party VPNs | Credential Access, Resource Development |
| Analytics | Increase in Job-Related Site Visits A user has visited multiple job-related sites in the past day. | Informational | Identity Threat Detection (ITDR), SaaS Threat Detection | Palo Alto Networks Firewall EAL Logs, Palo Alto Networks Firewall threat Logs, Palo Alto Networks Firewall EAL Logs, XDR Agent | Reconnaissance |
| Analytics | Intense SSO failures An abnormally high amount of SSO authentication attempts were seen within a short period of time. This could be the outcome of a brute-force login attempt. | Informational | Identity Analytics | AzureAD, Azure SignIn Log, Idira, Duo, Okta, OneLogin, PingOne | Credential Access, Initial Access |
| Analytics | Interactive local account enumeration Multiple non-existing accounts attempted interactive local logins to a host within a short period. This may indicate that an attacker has physical access to the host and is trying to enumerate accounts. | Low | Identity Analytics | XDR Agent | Discovery, Credential Access |
| Analytics | Internal Login Password Spray An abnormally high amount of user account login attempts were seen from a host within a short period of time. This may have resulted from a login password spray attack. | Informational | Identity Analytics | XDR Agent | Credential Access |
| Analytics | IP Rotation Pattern in SSO Spray A high volume of SSO authentication attempts was observed in a short time window. This behavior may indicate a password spray attack targeting multiple accounts. | Informational | Identity Analytics | AzureAD, Azure SignIn Log, Idira, Duo, Okta, OneLogin, PingOne | Credential Access, Resource Development |
| Analytics | Kerberos Pre-Auth Failures by Host The endpoint failed an unusual number of Kerberos pre-authentications (TGT requests) from at least three users when compared to its baseline. This can indicate a password-spraying attack. | Low | Platform Analytics | Palo Alto Networks Firewall traffic Logs, XDR Agent | Credential Access |
| Analytics | Kerberos Pre-Auth Failures by User and Host The user account on this host failed Kerberos pre-authentications (TGT requests) an unusual number of times. This can indicate a Kerberos brute-force attack. | Informational | Platform Analytics | Palo Alto Networks Firewall traffic Logs, XDR Agent | Credential Access |
| Analytics | Kerberos User Enumeration A high amount of Kerberos principal unknown errors were generated on users in the last hour. This may be indicative of Kerberos user enumeration. | Medium | Identity Analytics | Palo Alto Networks Firewall traffic Logs, XDR Agent | Discovery |
| Analytics | Kubernetes enumeration activity An identity attempted to discover available resources within a cluster. This may indicate an adversary attempting to map the Kubernetes environment and discover resources that may assist to perform additional attacks within the environment. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log, Azure Audit Log, Gcp Audit Log, Kubernetes Audit Logs | Discovery |
| Analytics | Kubernetes environment enumeration activity Multiple resources within a Kubernetes cluster were enumerated. This may indicate an adversary attempting to map the Kubernetes environment and discover resources that may assist to perform additional attacks within the environment. | Informational | Platform Analytics | XDR Agent | Discovery |
| Analytics | Large Upload (FTP) The endpoint transferred an excessively large amounts of data to a single destination over FTP. Cortex XDR Analytics assumes endpoint traffic towards a specific destination should be about the same over long periods of time. For that reason, Cortex XDR detected this abnormal behavior of a large data upload. An attacker may be exfiltrating data directly to the internet using this protocol. | Low | Platform Analytics | Palo Alto Networks Firewall traffic Logs, XDR Agent | Exfiltration |
| Analytics | Large Upload (Generic) The endpoint transferred large amounts of data to an external site using a different protocol from HTTP/s, FTP, or SMTP. (A specific detector is used for each of those protocols.) Cortex XDR Analytics assumes that data transfers out of your network are ordinarily performed using one of those three services, so it expects that data transfers over all other ports to be low. For the same reason, Cortex XDR Analytics also assumes endpoint traffic towards a specific destination should be about the same over long periods of time. An attacker may be exfiltrating data directly to the internet. | Low | Platform Analytics | Palo Alto Networks Firewall traffic Logs, XDR Agent | Exfiltration |
| Analytics | Large Upload (HTTPS) The endpoint transferred an excessive amount of data to an external site over HTTPS. The destination is not a popular upload site for endpoints on your network, and the endpoint performing the upload has not previously downloaded a large amount of data from the site. The upload is considered excessive based on comparison to baseline measurements of HTTPS data transfers on your network. An attacker may be exfiltrating data directly to the internet. | Low | Platform Analytics | Palo Alto Networks Firewall traffic Logs, XDR Agent, Third-Party Firewalls | Exfiltration |
| Analytics | Large Upload (SMTP) The endpoint, which is not an internal SMTP server, emailed an excessive amount of data from your network. | Low | Platform Analytics | Palo Alto Networks Firewall traffic Logs, XDR Agent, Third-Party Firewalls | Exfiltration |
| Analytics | Large volume of files potentially containing credentials accessed in Google Drive A user accessed a large volume of files potentially containing credentials in Google Drive. | Informational | Identity Threat Detection (ITDR), SaaS Threat Detection | Google Workspace Audit Logs | Collection, Credential Access |
| Analytics | Local group enumeration A user performed an enumeration on local groups to retrieve their details. | Informational | Identity Analytics | Windows Event Collector, XDR Agent with eXtended Threat Hunting (XTH) | Discovery |
| Analytics | Log enumeration via cloud native logging service An activity of log enumeration operations via cloud native logging service was detected. | Informational | Cortex Cloud | AWS Audit Log | Discovery |
| Analytics | Logs were not collected from a data source for an abnormally long time Logs were not collected from a data source for an abnormally long time. | Low | Platform Analytics | Health Monitoring Data | Impact |