Viewing Attack Sources

An attack source is the first MTA with a public IP address that routes a suspicious message. For example, if a suspicious message travels the following route: IP1 (sender) > IP2 (MTA: 225.237.59.52) > IP3 (company mail gateway) > IP4 (recipient), TippingPoint Advanced Threat Protection for Email identifies 225.237.59.52 (IP2) as the attack source. By studying attack sources, you can identify regional attack patterns or attack patterns that involve the same mail server.

Gain intelligence about the prevalence of the attack detections and their relative risk to your network. Learn about the location of the attack, especially whether the attack source is an MTA in your organization or in a region where your organization does not operate.

Procedure

Go to Detections → Attack Sources.
Specify the search criteria.
- Attack source (IP address)
- Country
Select the Period.
Click Search.

All email messages matching the search criteria appear.

View the results.

Header	Description
Attack Source	View the IP address of the attack source.
Country	View the country where the attack source is located.
City	View the city where the attack source is located.
Detections	View the email messages with malicious or suspicious characteristics. Signature-based detection involves searching for known patterns of data within executable code or behavior analysis. Click the number to see more information about the suspicious message.
High Risk	View the detected messages with malicious characteristics.
Medium Risk	View the detected messages with characteristics that are most likely malicious.
Low Risk	View the detected messages with suspicious characteristics.
	View the number of email messages with embedded malicious links.
	View the number of email messages with malicious file attachments.
Latest Detection	View the most recent occurrence of the detected message.

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Viewing Attack Sources

Procedure