Deletion of Bash Command Line History

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Adversaries may attempt to clear the bash command line history in an attempt to evade detection or forensic investigations.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

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

Severity: medium

Risk score: 47

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
  • Defense Evasion

Version: 3 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.9.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 7.10.0

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License

Rule query

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event.category:process AND event.type:(start or process_started) AND
process.name:rm AND
process.args:/\/(home\/.{1,255}|root)\/\.bash_history/

Threat mapping

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Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

Rule version history

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Version 3 (7.10.0 release)
  • Formatting only
Version 2 (7.9.1 release)
  • Formatting only