iSID Analyst Knowledge Base

Definitions, and additional context on iSID alerts along with helpful recommendations

NF – Punycode domain lookup to COM,DK domains

This alert is triggered when a client initiates an SSL/TLS connection (typically on port 443) to an external server, and the certificate contains a domain name using Punycode that translates to .com or .dk. Punycode encoding is used in internationalized domain names, but it can also be exploited in phishing attacks by creating visually similar domains

NF – Punycode COM ore DK domain used in certicifate

This alert is triggered when a DNS query from the internal network attempts to resolve a Punycode domain ending in .com or .dk. Punycode encoding is used in internationalized domain names, but it can also be exploited in phishing attacks by creating visually similar domains

NF – Bad TLD domain – site DNS query – Check domains

This alert is triggered when a DNS query is made from the home network to an external network for a domain ending with ".site"

NF – TLD domain – .cn DNS query

This alert is triggered when a DNS query is made from the home network to an external network for a domain ending with ".cn" (indicating a Chinese top-level domain)

NF – Web search engine – Yandex

This alert is triggered by traffic from the Yandex search engine.