IMPORTANT: No additional bug fixes or documentation updates will be released for this version. For the latest information, see the current release documentation.

« Bash Shell Profile Modification Bypass UAC via Event Viewer »

› › ›

Binary Executed from Shared Memory Directory

edit

Binary Executed from Shared Memory Directory

edit

Identifies the execution of a binary by root in Linux shared memory directories: (/dev/shm/, /run/shm/, /var/run/, /var/lock/). This activity is to be considered highly abnormal and should be investigated. Threat actors have placed executables used for persistence on high-uptime servers in these directories as system backdoors.

Rule type: eql

Rule indices:

logs-endpoint.events.*

Severity: high

Risk score: 73

Runs every: 5 minutes

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

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

Tags:

Elastic
Host
Linux
Threat Detection
Execution
BPFDoor

Version: 1

Added (Elastic Stack release): 8.3.0

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Potential false positives

edit

Directories /dev/shm and /run/shm are temporary file storage directories in Linux. They are intended to appear as a mounted file system, but uses virtual memory instead of a persistent storage device and thus are used for mounting file systems in legitimate purposes.

Rule query

edit

process where event.type == "start" and event.action == "exec"
and user.name == "root" and process.executable : (
"/dev/shm/*", "/run/shm/*", "/var/run/*",
"/var/lock/*" )

Threat mapping

edit

Framework: MITRE ATT&CK^TM

Tactic:
- Name: Execution
- ID: TA0002
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0002/
Technique:
- Name: Command and Scripting Interpreter
- ID: T1059
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1059/

« Bash Shell Profile Modification Bypass UAC via Event Viewer »