Deprecated - Suspicious JAVA Child Process

Last updated a month ago on 2024-10-18
Created 4 years ago on 2021-01-19

About

Identifies suspicious child processes of the Java interpreter process. This may indicate an attempt to execute a malicious JAR file or an exploitation attempt via a JAVA specific vulnerability.
Tags
Domain: EndpointOS: LinuxOS: macOSUse Case: Threat DetectionTactic: ExecutionUse Case: VulnerabilityData Source: Elastic Defend
Severity
medium
Risk Score
47
MITRE ATT&CK™

Execution (TA0002)(opens in a new tab or window)

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

Definition

Rule Type
New Terms Rule
Integration Pack
Prebuilt Security Detection Rules
Index Patterns
auditbeat-*logs-endpoint.events.*
Related Integrations

endpoint(opens in a new tab or window)

Query
event.category:process and event.type:("start" or "process_started") and process.parent.name:"java" and process.name:(
  bash or dash or sh or tcsh or csh or zsh or ksh or fish or python* or php* or perl or ruby or lua* or openssl or
  nc or netcat or ncat or telnet or awk or socat or wget or curl
) and process.args :(
  whoami or id or uname or cat or hostname or ip or curl or wget or pwd or ls or cd or python* or php* or perl or
  ruby or lua* or openssl or nc or netcat or ncat or telnet or awk or socat
)

Install detection rules in Elastic Security

Detect Deprecated - Suspicious JAVA Child Process 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).