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Network Sniffing via Tcpdump

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Network Sniffing via Tcpdump

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The Tcpdump program ran on a Linux host. Tcpdump is a network monitoring or packet sniffing tool that can be used to capture insecure credentials or data in motion. Sniffing can also be used to discover details of network services as a prelude to lateral movement or defense evasion.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

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

Severity: low

Risk score: 21

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
  • Credential Access

Version: 5 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.6.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 7.10.0

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License

Potential false positives

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Some normal use of this command may originate from server or network administrators engaged in network troubleshooting.

Rule query

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event.category:process and event.type:(start or process_started) and
process.name:tcpdump

Threat mapping

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Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

Rule version history

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Version 5 (7.10.0 release)
  • Formatting only
Version 4 (7.9.1 release)
  • Formatting only
Version 3 (7.9.0 release)

  • Updated query, changed from:

    process.name:tcpdump and event.action:executed
Version 2 (7.7.0 release)

  • Updated query, changed from:

    process.name: tcpdump and event.action:executed
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