# Hunting for bad actors / searching for multiple IP addresses

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hunting-for-bad-actors-searching-for-multiple-ip-addresses/27095>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [August 10, 2015, 4:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hunting-for-bad-actors-searching-for-multiple-ip-addresses/27095 "2015-08-10T04:35:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![JimCheetham](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jimcheetham/32/44843_2.png) [@JimCheetham](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JimCheetham)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2015, 4:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hunting-for-bad-actors-searching-for-multiple-ip-addresses/27095/1 "2015-08-10T04:35:44Z")

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I often go to my dashboard to identify something like a compromised user account, and when I identify them I get a set of different source addresses, all used by the attacker.

I can't figure out an elegant way to turn that list of values (currently a Top10 terms query) into a new search, so that I can see if there are any other accounts being accessed from the same "known-bad" IPs.

Ideally I'd point at the list and say "query for srcip = anything on this list"; at the moment I get to query `srcip:1.2.3.4 OR srcip:2.3.4.5 OR ...` which is pretty tedious and manual.

Any suggestions? Have I missed something simple?

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**Author:** ![tbragin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tbragin/32/45166_2.png) [@tbragin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tbragin)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2015, 11:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hunting-for-bad-actors-searching-for-multiple-ip-addresses/27095/2 "2015-08-11T23:44:14Z")

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This is a neat idea and a common use case - I'd suggest submitting as a feature request to the project: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues)

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**Author:** ![JimCheetham](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jimcheetham/32/44843_2.png) [@JimCheetham](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JimCheetham)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2015, 2:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hunting-for-bad-actors-searching-for-multiple-ip-addresses/27095/3 "2015-08-14T02:37:42Z")

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OK ... [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/4673](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/4673) recorded. Thanks 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 2:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hunting-for-bad-actors-searching-for-multiple-ip-addresses/27095/4 "2017-07-06T14:14:49Z")

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