Exfiltration tuned under DLP threshold

On-call incidentHard45 min

Your task

Your egress DLP alerts on any host exceeding 5GB/day outbound to non-allowlisted destinations, it's been quiet for months. A threat-intel tip names a destination domain. You check and find a reporting host has been sending ~2–3GB/day to it for 6 weeks, always just under the 5GB threshold, only during business hours, chunked over HTTPS to what looks like a legit CDN, and the volume rides alongside normal traffic so the daily total never spiked enough to alarm. Cumulatively that's ~100GB. How do you triage what was taken, contain it, and fix a detection that an attacker clearly tuned around?

It covers

  • Low and slow
  • Dlp evasion
  • Egress monitoring
  • Baselining