dns

Plugin

Description

Monitor dns queries.

This plugin opens a raw socket and monitors network traffic for DNS questions and answers.

When Velociraptor attempts to open a raw socket, sometimes Windows Defender treats that as suspicious behavior and quarantines the Velociraptor binary. This can be avoided by signing the binary which signals to Windows Defender that the binary is legitimate.

If you do not intend to build Velociraptor from source, use the official signed Velociraptor binaries which should not trigger alerts from Windows Defender.

It is generally better to use ETW for DNS monitoring than this plugin (see Windows.Events.DNSQueries)