USB drive Alert

F.Alsalem — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 07:31:03 GMT

kindly we need your support, I want to get alert when a USB drive is connected to workstation and not blocked by Symantec AV.

I have tried several times with correlation rule, I found XQL query very effective, and it is as follows:

config case_sensitive = false
| preset = device_control
| filter event_sub_type = ENUM.MOUNT_DRIVE_MOUNT
| fields agent_hostname, _time as mount_time, action_device_bus_type, action_device_class_name
| filter action_device_bus_type = 1 and action_device_class_name = "disk"
| sort desc mount_time
| join (
config case_sensitive = false
| preset = device_control
| filter event_sub_type = ENUM.MOUNT_DRIVE_UNMOUNT
| fields agent_hostname, _time as unmount_time, action_device_bus_type, action_device_class_name
| filter action_device_bus_type = 1 and action_device_class_name = "disk"
| sort desc unmount_time
) as F F.agent_hostname = agent_hostname
| filter unmount_time > mount_time
| alter time_diff_Second = timestamp_diff( unmount_time , mount_time, "SECOND") , time_diff_Minute = timestamp_diff( unmount_time , mount_time, "MINUTE")
|filter time_diff_Second >= 20 //because the Symantec blocks the devices before 20s i want alert who have the privilege to use it
| fields agent_hostname, mount_time, unmount_time as unmount_time, time_diff_Second, time_diff_Minute

This code is effective because I found that Symantec AV blocks the USB between about 2 to 20 seconds, and I was able to show almost correct results. It works on XQL Search but when I save it as correlation rule does not give an alert and does not accept to be added in BIOC because it uses (Config).

Is there a way by changing the code that I can get alerts ether on correlation or BIOC rule? Or if there another code please support us.

Re: USB drive Alert

nsinghvirk — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 17:46:54 GMT

Hello @F.Alsalem

Thanks for reaching on LiveCommunity!

The XQL query must at a minimum filter on the event_type field in order for it to be a valid BIOC rule. In addition, you can create BIOC rules using the xdr_data and cloud_audit_log datasets and presets for these datasets. Currently, you cannot create a BIOC rule on customized datasets and only the filter stage, alter stage, and functions without any aggregations are supported for XQL queries that define a BIOC.

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