[rule] description = """ Detects the creation of a reverse shell through a suspicious parent child relationship spawned via a shell with suspicious command line arguments. Attackers may spawn reverse shells to establish persistence onto a target system. """ id = "52206861-4570-4b8b-a73e-4ef0ea379a4c" license = "Elastic License v2" name = "Linux Reverse Shell" os_list = ["linux"] reference = ["https://www.elastic.co/security-labs/primer-on-persistence-mechanisms"] version = "1.0.8" query = ''' sequence with maxspan=5s [network where event.type == "start" and event.action in ("connection_attempted", "connection_accepted") and process.name in ("bash", "dash", "sh", "tcsh", "csh", "zsh", "ksh", "fish", "socat") and not (destination.ip == null or destination.ip == "0.0.0.0" or cidrmatch( 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" ) )] by process.entity_id [process where event.type == "start" and event.action in ("exec", "fork") and process.name in ("bash", "dash", "sh", "tcsh", "csh", "zsh", "ksh", "fish") and ( (process.args in ("-i", "-il", "-li")) or (process.parent.name == "socat" and process.parent.command_line like~ "*exec*") )] by process.parent.entity_id ''' min_endpoint_version = "8.5.0" optional_actions = [] [[actions]] action = "kill_process" field = "process.entity_id" state = 0 [[actions]] action = "kill_process" field = "process.entity_id" state = 1 [[actions]] action = "kill_process" field = "process.parent.entity_id" state = 0 [[actions]] action = "kill_process" field = "process.parent.entity_id" state = 1 [[threat]] framework = "MITRE ATT&CK" [[threat.technique]] id = "T1059" name = "Command and Scripting Interpreter" reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1059/" [[threat.technique.subtechnique]] id = "T1059.004" name = "Unix Shell" reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1059/004/" [threat.tactic] id = "TA0002" name = "Execution" reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0002/" [[threat]] framework = "MITRE ATT&CK" [[threat.technique]] id = "T1071" name = "Application Layer Protocol" reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1071/" [threat.tactic] id = "TA0011" name = "Command and Control" reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0011/" [internal] min_endpoint_version = "8.5.0"