Country Block and security policy ordering

We are currently setting up policies to block all traffic to\from all countries except a select few. The rules are in place and seem to be  working well. As a best practice, do you create a deny rule for all other out of country or do you just let th

Dynamic Updates for Apps went from XML to Binary

Was using the dynamic updates for the app/threat stuff to ingest into my system as it was in an XML file format until recently switched to Binary. Is there anyway to convert that back? 

Memory Corruption Exploit

Good day,

This may be a silly question we have been getting memory corruption exploit Alerts from a certain endpoint. Client does see them as cause for concern.

On a single end point would it be cause for concern to see multiple memory corruption expl

How to detect domain fronting

Hi,

did anyone manage to write a custom signature to detect domain fronting?

PA extracts the Host header, so in theory it should be possible to detect if the Host header is different from the URL?

Alternatively, if one could log the Host header one co

Unit42 STIX 2.0 feeds

I'm running my own Anomali STAXX server. I'm trying to ingest these Unit 42 feeds.  Do they still exist? The page is still up and I registered and created my API keys. No matter what I try to do, I can't get Anomali STAXX to connect. https://stix2.un

ThreatID 81845 - Generic PHP Webshell File Detection false positives

Anyone else seeing a large number of threat alerts this morning for the new generic signatures added last night? Seeing dozens this morning coming from user document downloads from a trusted financial source. I haven't fully decrypted the data yet, b

Uptick in Solarwinds exploit domain flagging

Starting early Saturday morning (4/23) we started getting a large number of DNS threat alerts for 3 domains associated with the Solarwinds exploit. These domains are now resolving to multiple Leaseweb IPs (as I recall, they were NX previously). Diggi

CVE-2022-0778 mitigation with Threat Prevention

Hi,

Following the CVE-2022-0778 vulnerability, I would like to apply the workaround to reduce the risk of attack until the PAN-OS update is released.

According to the security ticket, you have to activate the Threat IDs 92409 and 92411 but how to do

CVE-2022-0778 OpenSSL infinite loop vulnerability

CVE-2022-0778 Impact of the OpenSSL Infinite Loop Vulnerability CVE-2022-0778 (paloaltonetworks.com)

Further to this one, it mentions that Globalprotect is affected but doesnt say whether a client software update is required.

Do you know if the Global

policy, objects and smtp

howdy,

I can not get my head around how to do this.

Allow smtp from a country but block every other service, application.

You can negate countries but not services/applications.

can one do any/any with an exception?

Thank you

Threat Signature Pattern Lookup

How can I lookup what pattern(s) a particular threat signature is looking for?

Wildfire and Vulnerability Protection Signatures

The Wildfire engine obviously has a large impact on AV signatures, URL-Filtering categorization, and DNS Security, but I was curious if it plays any part at all in creating new vulnerability protection threat IDs? 

If not, then are new IDs created so

Signatures or Definition files

I have learned of a vulnerability from our security team with a file named "trello.dll". Is there a way to know what is covered  in the signatures and definitions?

How to Block RClone

If I search for rclone in the applications on my PAN 3220 w 9.1, I am not spotting "rclone". 
Is there a means of identifying and blocking rclone traffic?

https://research.nccgroup.com/2021/05/27/detecting-rclone-an-effective-tool-for-exfiltration/