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name: Linux Emacs Privilege Escalation
id: 92033cab-1871-483d-a03b-a7ce98665cfc
version: 1
date: '2022-08-09'
author: Gowthamaraj Rajendran, Splunk
status: production
type: Anomaly
description: EMACS is a family of text editors that are characterized by their extensibility.
The manual for the most widely used variant, GNU Emacs, describes it as "the extensible,
customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor". If sudo right is given
to EMACS tool for the user, then the user can run special commands as root and possibly
get a root shell.
data_source:
- Sysmon Event ID 1
search:
selection1:
CommandLine: '*--eval*'
selection2:
CommandLine: '*emacs*'
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/emacs/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs
tags:
analytic_story:
- Linux Privilege Escalation
- Linux Living Off The Land
asset_type: Endpoint
confidence: 50
impact: 40
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: 20
security_domain: endpoint
tests:
- name: True Positive Test
attack_data:
- data: https://media.githubusercontent.com/media/splunk/attack_data/master/datasets/attack_techniques/T1548/emacs/sysmon_linux.log
source: Syslog:Linux-Sysmon/Operational
sourcetype: sysmon:linux
update_timestamp: true