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Interactive Terminal Spawned via Pythonedit
Identifies when a terminal (tty) is spawned via Python. Attackers may upgrade a simple reverse shell to a fully interactive tty after obtaining initial access to a host.
Rule type: eql
Rule indices:
- logs-endpoint.events.*
Severity: high
Risk score: 73
Runs every: 5m
Searches indices from: now-9m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)
Maximum alerts per execution: 100
References: None
Tags:
- Elastic
- Host
- Linux
- Threat Detection
- Execution
- Elastic Endgame
Version: 104
Rule authors:
- Elastic
Rule license: Elastic License v2
Rule queryedit
sequence with maxspan=1m [process where host.os.type == "linux" and event.type == "start" and process.name : "python*"] by process.entity_id [process where host.os.type == "linux" and event.type == "start" and process.executable : "/bin/*sh" ] by process.parent.entity_id
Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM
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Tactic:
- Name: Execution
- ID: TA0002
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0002/
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Technique:
- Name: Command and Scripting Interpreter
- ID: T1059
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1059/
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Sub-technique:
- Name: Python
- ID: T1059.006
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1059/006/