Suspicious Cisco ASA WebVPN Login Scanning with Spoofed Chrome User-Agent

PremiumReviewedSigma · Medium · v1
Category
webserver
Author
HuntRule
Published
2026-08-28
Updated
2026-08-28

ATT&CK techniques

Recon → Initial Access
  1. Resource Dev

  2. Execution

  3. Persistence

  4. Priv Esc

  5. Defense Evasion

  6. Cred Access

  7. Discovery

  8. Lateral Movement

  9. Collection

  10. C2

  11. Exfiltration

  12. Impact

What it detects

This rule detects inbound requests to Cisco ASA web login endpoints /+CSCOE+/logon.html and /+webvpn+/index.html that carry the single spoofed browser identifier Chrome/102.0.5005.63 used across a coordinated scanning botnet. The activity mapped a surge of 25,000 IPs probing Cisco ASA devices, frequently a precursor to a newly disclosed vulnerability being weaponized for initial access.

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Detection content is published as a reviewed draft. Tune thresholds and exclusions against your own telemetry before enabling this rule for alerting.