name: Linux Csvtool Privilege Escalation id: f8384f9e-1a5c-4c3a-96d6-8a7e5a38a8b8 version: 1 date: '2022-08-11' author: Gowthamaraj Rajendran, Splunk status: production type: Anomaly description: csvtool is an easy to use command-line tool to work with .CSV files. If sudo right is given to the tool for the user, then the user can run system commands as root and possibly get a root shell. data_source: - Sysmon Event ID 1 search: selection1: CommandLine: '*call*' selection2: CommandLine: '*csvtool*' selection3: CommandLine: '*sudo*' condition: selection1 and selection2 and selection3 how_to_implement: To successfully implement this search, you need to be ingesting logs with the process name, parent process, and command-line executions from your endpoints into the Endpoint datamodel. If you are using Sysmon, you can use the Add-on for Linux Sysmon from Splunkbase. known_false_positives: False positives may be present, filter as needed. references: - https://gtfobins.github.io/gtfobins/csvtool/ tags: analytic_story: - Linux Privilege Escalation - Linux Living Off The Land asset_type: Endpoint confidence: 50 impact: 20 message: An instance of $parent_process_name$ spawning $process_name$ was identified on endpoint $dest$ mitre_attack_id: - T1548.003 - T1548 observable: - name: dest type: Hostname role: - Victim - name: parent_process_name type: Process role: - Parent Process - name: process_name type: Process role: - Child Process product: - Splunk Enterprise - Splunk Enterprise Security - Splunk Cloud risk_score: 10 security_domain: endpoint tests: - name: True Positive Test attack_data: - data: https://media.githubusercontent.com/media/splunk/attack_data/master/datasets/attack_techniques/T1548/csvtool/sysmon_linux.log source: Syslog:Linux-Sysmon/Operational sourcetype: sysmon_linux update_timestamp: true