Ingress Tool Transfer Followed by Execution and Deletion Detected via Defend for Containers

Last updated a month ago on 2026-03-24
Created 2 months ago on 2026-03-05

Definition

Rule Type
Event Correlation Rule
Integration Pack
Prebuilt Security Detection Rules
Index Patterns
logs-cloud_defend.process*logs-cloud_defend.file*
Related Integrations

cloud_defend(external, opens in a new tab or window)

Query
text code block:
sequence by container.id, user.id with maxspan=10s [file where event.action == "creation" and ( process.name in ("curl", "wget", "fetch", "ftp", "sftp", "scp", "rsync", "ld") or ( process.name in ("bash", "dash", "sh", "tcsh", "csh", "zsh", "ksh", "fish", "busybox") and process.args in ( "curl", "/bin/curl", "/usr/bin/curl", "/usr/local/bin/curl", "wget", "/bin/wget", "/usr/bin/wget", "/usr/local/bin/wget", "fetch", "/bin/fetch", "/usr/bin/fetch", "/usr/local/bin/fetch", "ftp", "/bin/ftp", "/usr/bin/ftp", "/usr/local/bin/ftp", "sftp", "/bin/sftp", "/usr/bin/sftp", "/usr/local/bin/sftp", "scp", "/bin/scp", "/usr/bin/scp", "/usr/local/bin/scp", "rsync", "/bin/rsync", "/usr/bin/rsync", "/usr/local/bin/rsync", "ld", "/bin/ld", "/usr/bin/ld", "/usr/local/bin/ld" ) and /* default exclusion list to not FP on default multi-process commands */ not process.args in ( "which", "/bin/which", "/usr/bin/which", "/usr/local/bin/which", "man", "/bin/man", "/usr/bin/man", "/usr/local/bin/man", "chmod", "/bin/chmod", "/usr/bin/chmod", "/usr/local/bin/chmod", "chown", "/bin/chown", "/usr/bin/chown", "/usr/local/bin/chown" ) ) ) and file.path like ( "/dev/shm/*", "/run/shm/*", "/tmp/*", "/var/tmp/*", "/run/*", "/var/run/*", "/var/www/*", "/proc/*/fd/*", "/home/*/*", "/root/*", "/opt/*" ) ] by file.name [process where event.type == "start" and event.action == "exec" and process.parent.name in ("bash", "dash", "ash", "sh", "tcsh", "csh", "zsh", "ksh", "fish", "busybox") ] by process.name [file where event.action == "deletion" and file.path like ( "/dev/shm/*", "/run/shm/*", "/tmp/*", "/var/tmp/*", "/run/*", "/var/run/*", "/var/www/*", "/proc/*/fd/*", "/home/*/*", "/root/*", "/opt/*" ) and not process.name in ("rm", "ld", "conftest", "link", "gcc", "getarch", "ld") ] by file.name

Install detection rules in Elastic Security

Detect Ingress Tool Transfer Followed by Execution and Deletion Detected via Defend for Containers in the Elastic Security detection engine by installing this rule into your Elastic Stack.

To setup this rule, check out the installation guide for Prebuilt Security Detection Rules(external, opens in a new tab or window).