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Block High Risk TLDs

L2 Linker

Hi All,

 

I want to start blocking 'high risk' top level domains within PAN-OS. Has anyone else done this successfully? 

 

I presume the following should work based on PAN-OS RegEX:

 

URL Category:

 

*.eg/

*.ex/

etc....

 

Set URL Category to 'Block' within existing URL Filtering Profile.

 

Cheers

 

 

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Cyber Elite
Cyber Elite

Hello,

I would say utilize the dynamic features of the PAN to do this for you instead of utilizing specific lists. Enable all, AntiVirus, Anti-Spyware with DNS sinkhole, Vulnerability protection, URL filtering, and wildfire. Then use a secure DNS provider, either palo alto's or someone elses, and block all others. I made a video for a conference regarding secure DNS that is worth the 12 minutes.

https://youtu.be/ROIAYSEbTuo

 

Its all about defense in depth and machine learning, rather than static lists.

 

Hope this helps.

 

L0 Member

You can dig more from Unit42 post: https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/top-level-domains-cybercrime/ 
Also, from https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/tlds/

If you want to do it at larger scale, EDL can be a better choice than static entries.

L2 Linker

Thanks for the responses all. 

 

I still believe PAN-OS should support blocking specific TLDs in a simple way; this seems like a fool proof way to greatly reduce the attack surface since we never need to visit sites using these TLDs for legitimate reasons.

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