alert_category: EXFILTRATION
alert_description: This rule detects more than 100 downloaded files during an hour by the same user. This is a suspicious behavior which can be an indication of a data exfiltration.
alert_fields:
  actor_process_image_name: Files
  actor_process_image_path:
  actor_process_command_line:
  agent_device_domain:
  actor_process_image_sha256:
  agent_hostname:
  action_local_ip:
  action_remote_ip: SourceIP
  action_remote_port:
  actor_effective_username: user
alert_name: DropBox - Massive File Downloads
crontab: 0 * * * *
dataset: alerts
description: This rule detects more than 100 downloaded files during an hour by the same user. This is a suspicious behavior which can be an indication of a data exfiltration.
drilldown_query_timeframe: ALERT
execution_mode: SCHEDULED
global_rule_id: 205317b6-c494-4836-ac31-f80c8204cf4e
investigation_query_link: 'datamodel dataset = dropbox_dropbox_raw

  | filter xdm.event.type = "file_operations" and xdm.event.operation_sub_type = "file_download"

  | alter user = coalesce(xdm.source.user.username, xdm.target.user.username)

  | filter user = $user'
mapping_strategy: CUSTOM
mitre_defs:
  TA0010 - Exfiltration:
  - T1567 - Exfiltration Over Web Service
name: DropBox - Massive File Downloads
search_window: 4 hours
severity: SEV_030_MEDIUM
suppression_duration: 1 hours
suppression_enabled: true
suppression_fields:
user_defined_category:
user_defined_severity:
xql_query: 'datamodel dataset = dropbox_dropbox_raw

  | filter xdm.event.type = "file_operations" and xdm.event.operation_sub_type = "file_download"

  | alter user = coalesce(xdm.source.user.username, xdm.target.user.username)

  | comp values(xdm.source.ipv4) as SourceIP, values(xdm.source.location.country) as Countries, max(_time) as lastTime, values(xdm.target.resource.name) as Files, count() as NumberOfFiles by user

  | filter NumberOfFiles > 100'
fromversion: 6.10.0