name: Linux DD File Overwrite id: 9b6aae5e-8d85-11ec-b2ae-acde48001122 version: 1 date: '2022-02-14' author: Teoderick Contreras, Splunk status: production type: TTP description: This analytic is to look for dd command to overwrite file. This technique was abused by adversaries or threat actor to destroy files or data on specific system or in a large number of host within network to interrupt host avilability, services and many more. This is also used to destroy data where it make the file irrecoverable by forensic techniques through overwriting files, data or local and remote drives. data_source: - Sysmon Event ID 1 search: selection1: CommandLine: '*of=' Image|endswith: dd condition: selection1 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. If you are using Sysmon, you can use the Add-on for Linux Sysmon from Splunkbase. known_false_positives: Administrator or network operator can execute this command. Please update the filter macros to remove false positives. references: - https://gtfobins.github.io/gtfobins/dd/ - https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/master/atomics/T1485/T1485.md tags: analytic_story: - Data Destruction - Industroyer2 asset_type: endpoint confidence: 80 impact: 80 message: A commandline $process$ executed on $dest$ mitre_attack_id: - T1485 observable: - name: dest type: Hostname role: - Victim product: - Splunk Enterprise - Splunk Enterprise Security - Splunk Cloud risk_score: 64 security_domain: endpoint tests: - name: True Positive Test attack_data: - data: https://media.githubusercontent.com/media/splunk/attack_data/master/datasets/attack_techniques/T1485/linux_dd_file_overwrite/sysmon_linux.log source: Syslog:Linux-Sysmon/Operational sourcetype: sysmon_linux