A threat hunting team discovers beaconing behavior in network logs: an internal host makes outbound HTTPS connections to the same external IP every 300 seconds with nearly identical payload sizes. Endpoint protection did not trigger any alerts. Which combination of threat hunting tools and techniques is MOST appropriate to investigate further?
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