Potential Reverse Shell Activity via Terminal

Last updated 2 months ago on 2024-09-23
Created 5 years ago on 2020-01-07

About

Identifies the execution of a shell process with suspicious arguments which may be indicative of reverse shell activity.
Tags
Domain: EndpointOS: LinuxOS: macOSUse Case: Threat DetectionTactic: ExecutionData Source: Elastic Defend
Severity
high
Risk Score
73
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
Event Correlation Rule
Integration Pack
Prebuilt Security Detection Rules
Index Patterns
auditbeat-*logs-endpoint.events.*
Related Integrations

endpoint(opens in a new tab or window)

Query
process where event.type in ("start", "process_started") and
  process.name in ("sh", "bash", "zsh", "dash", "zmodload") and
  process.args : ("*/dev/tcp/*", "*/dev/udp/*", "*zsh/net/tcp*", "*zsh/net/udp*") and

  /* noisy FPs */
  not (process.parent.name : "timeout" and process.executable : "/var/lib/docker/overlay*") and
  not process.command_line : (
    "*/dev/tcp/sirh_db/*", "*/dev/tcp/remoteiot.com/*", "*dev/tcp/elk.stag.one/*", "*dev/tcp/kafka/*",
    "*/dev/tcp/$0/$1*", "*/dev/tcp/127.*", "*/dev/udp/127.*", "*/dev/tcp/localhost/*", "*/dev/tcp/itom-vault/*") and
  not process.parent.command_line : "runc init"

Install detection rules in Elastic Security

Detect Potential Reverse Shell Activity via Terminal 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).