Impact (TA0040)(external, opens in a new tab or window)
Execution (TA0002)(external, opens in a new tab or window)
Command and Control (TA0011)(external, opens in a new tab or window)
text code block:from logs-endpoint.events.network-* metadata _id, _index, _version | mv_expand event.action | where host.os.type == "linux" and event.type == "start" and event.action == "connection_attempted" and destination.port in (22, 222, 2222, 10022, 2022, 2200, 62612, 8022) and not ( cidr_match( destination.ip, "10.0.0.0/8", "127.0.0.0/8", "169.254.0.0/16", "172.16.0.0/12", "192.0.0.0/24", "192.0.0.0/29", "192.0.0.8/32", "192.0.0.9/32", "192.0.0.10/32", "192.0.0.170/32", "192.0.0.171/32", "192.0.2.0/24", "192.31.196.0/24", "192.52.193.0/24", "192.168.0.0/16", "192.88.99.0/24", "224.0.0.0/4", "100.64.0.0/10", "192.175.48.0/24", "198.18.0.0/15", "198.51.100.0/24", "203.0.113.0/24", "240.0.0.0/4", "::1", "FE80::/10", "FF00::/8" ) or process.executable in ( "/usr/bin/rclone", "/usr/bin/sss_ssh_knownhostsproxy", "/usr/sbin/sshd", "/usr/bin/ssh", "/usr/local/bin/php", "/usr/sbin/apache2", "/usr/sbin/nginx", "/usr/local/bin/argocd-repo-server", "/opt/nessus/sbin/nessusd", "/usr/local/bin/source-controller" ) or process.executable like "/usr/local/efax/*" ) | keep @timestamp, _id, _index, _version, host.os.type, event.type, event.action, destination.port, destination.ip, process.executable, agent.id, host.name, event.dataset, data_stream.namespace | stats Esql.event_count = count(), Esql.agent_id_count_distinct = count_distinct(agent.id), Esql.host_name_values = values(host.name), Esql.agent_id_values = values(agent.id), Esql.event_dataset_values = values(event.dataset), Esql.data_stream_namespace_values = values(data_stream.namespace) by process.executable, destination.port | where Esql.agent_id_count_distinct == 1 and Esql.event_count >= 100 // Extract unique values to ECS fields for alerts exclusion | eval agent.id = mv_min(Esql.agent_id_values), host.name = mv_min(Esql.host_name_values) | sort Esql.event_count asc | keep Esql.*, agent.id, host.name, process.executable, destination.port
Install detection rules in Elastic Security
Detect Potential Malware-Driven SSH Brute Force Attempt 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).