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Interactive Terminal Spawned via Perl
editInteractive Terminal Spawned via Perledit
Identifies when a terminal (tty) is spawned via Perl. Attackers may upgrade a simple reverse shell to a fully interactive tty after obtaining initial access to a host.
Rule type: query
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
Tags:
- Elastic
- Host
- Linux
- Threat Detection
- Execution
Version: 100 (version history)
Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.8.0
Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 8.5.0
Rule authors: Elastic
Rule license: Elastic License v2
Rule queryedit
event.category:process and event.type:(start or process_started) and process.name:perl and process.args:("exec \"/bin/sh\";" or "exec \"/bin/dash\";" or "exec \"/bin/bash\";")
Threat mappingedit
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/
Rule version historyedit
- Version 100 (8.5.0 release)
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- Formatting only
- Version 7 (8.4.0 release)
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- Formatting only
- Version 6 (7.12.0 release)
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- Formatting only
- Version 5 (7.11.2 release)
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- Formatting only
- Version 4 (7.10.0 release)
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- Formatting only
- Version 3 (7.9.1 release)
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- Formatting only
- Version 2 (7.9.0 release)
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Updated query, changed from:
event.action:executed and process.name:perl and process.args:("exec \"/bin/sh\";" or "exec \"/bin/dash\";" or "exec \"/bin/bash\";")
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