Elastic Security Detection Rules

High Number of Process Terminations

Last updated a year ago on 2024-05-21
Created 3 years ago on 2022-07-27

About

This rule identifies a high number (10) of process terminations via pkill from the same host within a short time period.
Tags
Domain: EndpointOS: LinuxUse Case: Threat DetectionTactic: ImpactData Source: Elastic EndgameData Source: Elastic DefendData Source: Auditd ManagerLanguage: kuery
Severity
medium
Risk Score
47
MITRE ATT&CK™

Impact (TA0040)(opens in a new tab or window)

↳ Service Stop (T1489)(opens in a new tab or window)

License
Elastic License v2(opens in a new tab or window)

Definition

Rule Type
Threshold Rule
Integration Pack
Prebuilt Security Detection Rules
Index Patterns
logs-endpoint.events.*endgame-*auditbeat-*logs-auditd_manager.auditd-*
Related Integrations

endpoint(opens in a new tab or window)

auditd_manager(opens in a new tab or window)

Query
event.category:process and host.os.type:linux and event.type:start and process.name:"pkill" and process.args:"-f"

Install detection rules in Elastic Security

Detect High Number of Process Terminations 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).