topic Re: HTTP brute force alerts to gameplayapi.intel.com in General Topics

HTTP brute force alerts to gameplayapi.intel.com

SThatipelly — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 21:19:15 GMT

I have started noticing PaloAlto firewall generating a lot of HTTP brute force alerts with the URL gameplayapi.intel.com/api/games/getagsgames2/ . Do any of you aware of what this could be? I couldn't find anything malicious related to this but I'm seeing so many users reaching out to it.

Thanks.

Re: HTTP brute force alerts to gameplayapi.intel.com

BPry — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 17:50:15 GMT

@SThatipelly,

This is usually caused by GfxDownloadWrapper and really can't be disabled. You can remove the Intel Control Panel or the Command Center and this should stop generating alerts. You very rarely actually need these applications in an Enterprise environment.

Re: HTTP brute force alerts to gameplayapi.intel.com

SThatipelly — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 20:04:34 GMT

@BPry Thanks for the response. I am having my desktop services team to take a look at the endpoints. Will keep you posted. thank you.

Re: HTTP brute force alerts to gameplayapi.intel.com

MikeC — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 04:26:21 GMT

I'm also seeing this. I would say since this is legitimate software, wouldn't it make more sense for Palo to correct the signature

Re: HTTP brute force alerts to gameplayapi.intel.com

MikeC — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 22:23:09 GMT

@SThatipelly

Would you know if the machines generating these alerts have "Intel Optane Pinning Explorer Extensions" installed?

Re: HTTP brute force alerts to gameplayapi.intel.com

Cantrell — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 16:57:42 GMT

Ours don't.

Re: HTTP brute force alerts to gameplayapi.intel.com

MikeC — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 21:30:26 GMT

Has anyone been able to successfully stop this?

Re: HTTP brute force alerts to gameplayapi.intel.com

Cantrell — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 21:36:40 GMT

I'm thinking the shortest route is going to be just blackhole the URL. If you hit the site manually, you get password prompt, which is why it's getting flagged as http/brute-force, I guess. You gotta wonder why there are credentials since it's http...

Re: HTTP brute force alerts to gameplayapi.intel.com

MikeC — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 21:49:34 GMT

Yep, that's what I'm going to do but was trying to avoid it

Re: HTTP brute force alerts to gameplayapi.intel.com

MarcelST — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 13:00:27 GMT

Same issue here. We are now trying to check if this can be disabled in computers rather than create a signature exception.