Hping Process Activityedit

Hping ran on a Linux host. Hping is a FOSS command-line packet analyzer and has the ability to construct network packets for a wide variety of network security testing applications, including scanning and firewall auditing.

Rule indices:

  • auditbeat-*

Severity: high

Risk score: 73

Runs every: 5 minutes

Searches indices from: now-6m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum signals per execution: 100

References:

Tags:

  • Elastic
  • Linux

Rule version: 1

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.6.0

Potential false positivesedit

Normal use of hping is uncommon apart from security testing and research. Use by non-security engineers is very uncommon.

Rule queryedit

process.name: (hping3 or hping2 or hping) and event.action:executed