Elastic Security Detection Rules

Virtual Machine Fingerprinting

Last updated 7 months ago on 2025-01-15
Created 5 years ago on 2020-04-27

About

An adversary may attempt to get detailed information about the operating system and hardware. This rule identifies common locations used to discover virtual machine hardware by a non-root user. This technique has been used by the Pupy RAT and other malware.
Tags
Domain: EndpointOS: LinuxUse Case: Threat DetectionTactic: DiscoveryData Source: Elastic EndgameData Source: Elastic DefendLanguage: kuery
Severity
high
Risk Score
73
MITRE ATT&CK™

Discovery (TA0007)(opens in a new tab or window)

↳ System Information Discovery (T1082)(opens in a new tab or window)

False Positive Examples
Certain tools or automated software may enumerate hardware information. These tools can be exempted via user name or process arguments to eliminate potential noise.
License
Elastic License v2(opens in a new tab or window)

Definition

Rule Type
Query (Kibana Query Language)
Integration Pack
Prebuilt Security Detection Rules
Index Patterns
auditbeat-*logs-endpoint.events.*endgame-*
Related Integrations

endpoint(opens in a new tab or window)

Query
event.category:process and host.os.type:linux and event.type:(start or process_started) and
  process.args:("/sys/class/dmi/id/bios_version" or
                "/sys/class/dmi/id/product_name" or
                "/sys/class/dmi/id/chassis_vendor" or
                "/proc/scsi/scsi" or
                "/proc/ide/hd0/model") and
  not user.name:root

Install detection rules in Elastic Security

Detect Virtual Machine Fingerprinting 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(opens in a new tab or window).