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Virtual Machine Fingerprinting

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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 the Pupy RAT and other malware.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

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

Severity: high

Risk score: 73

Runs every: 5m

Searches indices from: now-9m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References: None

Tags:

  • Domain: Endpoint
  • OS: Linux
  • Use Case: Threat Detection
  • Tactic: Discovery
  • Data Source: Elastic Endgame
  • Data Source: Elastic Defend

Version: 107

Rule authors:

  • Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Rule query

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event.category:process and host.os.type:linux and event.type:(start or process_started) 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

Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

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