Potential Reverse Shell Activity via Terminaledit

Identifies the execution of a shell process with suspicious arguments which may be indicative of reverse shell activity.

Rule type: eql

Rule indices:

  • auditbeat-*
  • logs-endpoint.events.*

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
  • Linux
  • macOS
  • Threat Detection
  • Execution

Version: 1

Added (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
process.name in ("sh", "bash", "zsh", "dash", "zmodload") and
process.args:("*/dev/tcp/*", "*/dev/udp/*", "zsh/net/tcp",
"zsh/net/udp")

Threat mappingedit

Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM