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Potential Remote Desktop Tunneling Detectededit
Identifies potential use of an SSH utility to establish RDP over a reverse SSH Tunnel. This could be indicative of adversary lateral movement to interactively access restricted networks.
Rule type: eql
Rule indices:
- logs-endpoint.events.*
- winlogbeat-*
- logs-windows.*
Severity: high
Risk score: 73
Runs every: 5 minutes
Searches indices from: now-9m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time
)
Maximum alerts per execution: 100
References:
Tags:
- Elastic
- Host
- Windows
- Threat Detection
- Lateral Movement
Version: 3 (version history)
Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.11.0
Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 7.12.0
Rule authors: Elastic
Rule license: Elastic License v2
Rule queryedit
process where event.type in ("start", "process_started") and /* RDP port and usual SSH tunneling related switches in command line */ process.args : "*:3389" and process.args : ("-L", "-P", "-R", "-pw", "-ssh")
Threat mappingedit
Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM
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Tactic:
- Name: Lateral Movement
- ID: TA0008
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0008/
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Technique:
- Name: Remote Services
- ID: T1021
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1021/
Rule version historyedit
- Version 3 (7.12.0 release)
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Updated query, changed from:
process where event.type in ("start", "process_started", "info") and /* RDP port and usual SSH tunneling related switches in commandline */ wildcard(process.args, "*:3389") and wildcard(process.args,"-L", "-P", "-R", "-pw", "-ssh")
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- Version 2 (7.11.2 release)
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Updated query, changed from:
process where event.type in ("start", "process_started", "info") and /* RDP port and usual SSH tunneling related switches in commandline */ wildcard(process.args, "*:3389") and wildcard(process.args,"-L", "-P", "-R", "-pw", "-ssh")
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