Elastic Security Detection Rules

SSL Certificate Deletion

Last updated 5 months ago on 2025-03-20
Created a year ago on 2024-08-28

About

This rule detects the deletion of SSL certificates on a Linux system. Adversaries may delete SSL certificates to subvert trust controls and negatively impact the system.
Tags
Domain: EndpointOS: LinuxUse Case: Threat DetectionTactic: Defense EvasionTactic: ImpactData Source: Elastic DefendData Source: SentinelOneData Source: Elastic EndgameLanguage: eql
Severity
low
Risk Score
21
MITRE ATT&CK™

Defense Evasion (TA0005)(opens in a new tab or window)

↳ Indicator Removal (T1070)(opens in a new tab or window)

↳ Subvert Trust Controls (T1553)(opens in a new tab or window)

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

↳ Data Destruction (T1485)(opens in a new tab or window)

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

Definition

Rule Type
Event Correlation Rule
Integration Pack
Prebuilt Security Detection Rules
Index Patterns
logs-endpoint.events.file*logs-sentinel_one_cloud_funnel.*endgame-*
Related Integrations

endpoint(opens in a new tab or window)

sentinel_one_cloud_funnel(opens in a new tab or window)

Query
file where host.os.type == "linux" and event.type == "deletion" and file.path : "/etc/ssl/certs/*" and
file.extension in ("pem", "crt") and not process.name in ("dockerd", "pacman")

Install detection rules in Elastic Security

Detect SSL Certificate Deletion 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).