Zscaler Employment Search Web Activity

Original Source: [splunk source]
Name:Zscaler Employment Search Web Activity
id:5456bdef-d765-4565-8e1f-61ca027bc50e
version:3
date:2024-09-30
author:Gowthamaraj Rajendran, Rod Soto, Splunk
status:production
type:Anomaly
Description:The following analytic identifies web activity related to employment searches within a network. It leverages Zscaler web proxy logs, focusing on entries categorized as 'Job/Employment Search'. Key data points such as device owner, user, URL category, destination URL, and IP are analyzed. This detection is significant for SOCs as it helps monitor potential insider threats by identifying users who may be seeking new employment. If confirmed malicious, this activity could indicate a risk of data exfiltration or other insider threats, potentially leading to sensitive information leakage or other security breaches.
Data_source:
search:`zscaler_proxy` urlsupercategory="Job/Employment Search"
| stats count min(_time) as firstTime max(_time) as lastTime by action deviceowner user urlcategory url src dest
| `security_content_ctime(firstTime)`
| `security_content_ctime(lastTime)`
| `zscaler_employment_search_web_activity_filter`


how_to_implement:You must install the latest version of Zscaler Add-on from Splunkbase. You must be ingesting Zscaler events into your Splunk environment through an ingester. This analytic was written to be used with the "zscalernss-web" sourcetype leveraging the Zscaler proxy data. This enables the integration with Splunk Enterprise Security. Security teams are encouraged to adjust the detection parameters, ensuring the detection is tailored to their specific environment.
known_false_positives:False positives are limited to Zscaler configuration.
References:
  -https://help.zscaler.com/zia/nss-feed-output-format-web-logs
drilldown_searches:
name:'View the detection results for - "$src$" and "$user$"'
search:'%original_detection_search% | search src = "$src$" user = "$user$"'
earliest_offset:'$info_min_time$'
latest_offset:'$info_max_time$'
name:'View risk events for the last 7 days for - "$src$" and "$user$"'
search:'| from datamodel Risk.All_Risk | search normalized_risk_object IN ("$src$", "$user$") starthoursago=168 | stats count min(_time) as firstTime max(_time) as lastTime values(search_name) as "Search Name" values(risk_message) as "Risk Message" values(analyticstories) as "Analytic Stories" values(annotations._all) as "Annotations" values(annotations.mitre_attack.mitre_tactic) as "ATT&CK Tactics" by normalized_risk_object | `security_content_ctime(firstTime)` | `security_content_ctime(lastTime)`'
earliest_offset:'$info_min_time$'
latest_offset:'$info_max_time$'
tags:
  analytic_story:
    - 'Zscaler Browser Proxy Threats'
  asset_type:Web Server
  confidence:80
  impact:5
  message:Potential Employment Search Web Activity from dest -[$dest$] on $src$ for user-[$user$].
  mitre_attack_id:
    - 'T1566'
  observable:
    name:'src'
    type:'IP Address'
    - role:
      - 'Victim'
    name:'user'
    type:'User'
    - role:
      - 'Victim'
    name:'url'
    type:'URL String'
    - role:
      - 'Attacker'
  product:
    - 'Splunk Enterprise'
    - 'Splunk Enterprise Security'
    - 'Splunk Cloud'
  risk_score:4
  required_fields:
    - 'action'
    - 'threatname'
    - 'deviceowner'
    - 'user'
    - 'urlcategory'
    - 'url'
    - 'dest'
    - 'dest_ip'
    - 'action'
  security_domain:threat

tests:
name:'True Positive Test'
 attack_data:
  data: https://media.githubusercontent.com/media/splunk/attack_data/master/datasets/attack_techniques/T1566/zscalar_web_proxy/zscalar_web_proxy.json
  source: zscaler
  sourcetype: zscalernss-web
manual_test:None

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