Bro Script: Hardcoded IP addresses - bro

Question

Ich have one assignment and I need a little help. I have infected.pcap and the following task:
Hardcoded IP addresses Sometimes, malware contains hardcoded IP addresses to download their payload or to communicate with their command and control (C&C) server. Find all such communication. Hint: Such IPs have no preceding DNS request.
I need to solve it with Bro script. This was my idea, but unfortunatelly all my connections have no DNS request:
#load base/protocols/dns/main.bro
event file_timeout(f: fa_file)
{
for ( cid in f$conns )
{
if(f$conns[cid]?$dns){
print f$conns[cid]$dns;
print "DNS";
}else {
print "No DNS";
}
}
}
Do you know maybe what is wrong with my code?

Answer 1

I would suggest that you're using the wrong event for this. The file_timeout only occurs if a file transfer was occurring and then stopped without completing. A much more interesting event correlation would be:
Track DNS address lookup responses (I would likely use event
dns_A_reply(c: connection, msg: dns_msg, ans: dns_answer, a:
addr)).
Record the addresses returned in a set; this will provide
you a set of all addresses that were discovered through a DNS query.
Examine outbound requests (where orig_h on the SYN is an internal
address)
Check to see if the address in id$resp_h is in the set of
addresses step 2. If it is, return, if it isn't,
generate a notice since you have an outbound connection attempt with
no corresponding DNS lookup.