title: Suspicious C2 Activities
id: f7158a64-6204-4d6d-868a-6e6378b467e0
status: test
description: Detects suspicious activities as declared by Florian Roth in its 'Best Practice Auditd Configuration'. This includes the detection of the following commands; wget, curl, base64, nc, netcat, ncat, ssh, socat, wireshark, rawshark, rdesktop, nmap. These commands match a few techniques from the tactics "Command and Control", including not exhaustively the following; Application Layer Protocol (T1071), Non-Application Layer Protocol (T1095), Data Encoding (T1132)
author: Marie Euler
references:
  - 'https://github.com/Neo23x0/auditd'
date: 2020/05/18
modified: 2021/11/27
logsource:
  product: linux
  service: auditd
detection:
  selection:
    key:
      - 'susp_activity'
  condition: selection
falsepositives:
  - Admin or User activity
level: medium
tags:
  - attack.command_and_control
