The SIEM app is now a part of the Elastic Security solution.
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Virtual Machine Fingerprintingedit
An adversary may attempt to get detailed information about the operating system and hardware. This rule identifies common locations used to discover virtual machine hardware by a non-root user. This technique has been used by Pupy RAT and other malware.
Rule type: query
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
Tags:
- Elastic
- Linux
Version: 1
Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.8.0
Potential false positivesedit
Certain tools or automated software may enumerate hardware information. These tools can be exempted via user name or process arguments to eliminate potential noise.
Rule queryedit
event.action:executed and
process.args:("/sys/class/dmi/id/bios_version" or
"/sys/class/dmi/id/product_name" or "/sys/class/dmi/id/chassis_vendor"
or "/proc/scsi/scsi" or "/proc/ide/hd0/model") and not user.name:root
Threat mappingedit
Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM
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Tactic:
- Name: Discovery
- ID: TA0007
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0007/
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Technique:
- Name: System Information Discovery
- ID: T1082
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1082/