Detection of Social Media Accounts

ID: DET0870
Domains: Enterprise
Analytics: AN2002
Version: 1.0
Created: 21 October 2025
Last Modified: 21 October 2025

Analytics

AN2002

Consider monitoring social media activity related to your organization. Suspicious activity may include personas claiming to work for your organization or recently modified accounts making numerous connection requests to accounts affiliated with your organization.
Detection efforts may be focused on related stages of the adversary lifecycle, such as during Initial Access (ex: Spearphishing via Service).
Monitor and analyze traffic patterns and packet inspection associated to protocol(s), leveraging SSL/TLS inspection for encrypted traffic, that do not follow the expected protocol standards and traffic flows (e.g extraneous packets that do not belong to established flows, gratuitous or anomalous traffic patterns, anomalous syntax, or structure). Consider correlation with process monitoring and command line to detect anomalous processes execution and command line arguments associated to traffic patterns (e.g. monitor anomalies in use of files that do not normally initiate connections for respective protocol(s)).

Log Sources
Data Component Name Channel
Social Media (DC0052) Persona None
Network Traffic Content (DC0085) Network Traffic None