sigma-rules/rules/linux/discovery_linux_hping_activity.toml

[metadata]
creation_date = "2020/02/18"
integration = ["endpoint"]
maturity = "production"
min_stack_comments = "New fields added: required_fields, related_integrations, setup"
min_stack_version = "8.3.0"
updated_date = "2023/08/24"

[rule]
author = ["Elastic"]
description = """
Hping ran on a Linux host. Hping is a FOSS command-line packet analyzer and has the ability to construct network packets
for a wide variety of network security testing applications, including scanning and firewall auditing.
"""
false_positives = [
    """
    Normal use of hping is uncommon apart from security testing and research. Use by non-security engineers is very
    uncommon.
    """,
]
from = "now-9m"
index = ["auditbeat-*", "logs-endpoint.events.*", "endgame-*"]
language = "eql"
license = "Elastic License v2"
name = "Hping Process Activity"
references = ["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hping"]
risk_score = 47
rule_id = "90169566-2260-4824-b8e4-8615c3b4ed52"
severity = "medium"
tags = ["Domain: Endpoint", "OS: Linux", "Use Case: Threat Detection", "Tactic: Discovery", "Data Source: Elastic Endgame", "Data Source: Elastic Defend"]
timestamp_override = "event.ingested"
type = "eql"

query = '''
process where host.os.type == "linux" and event.type == "start"
and process.name in ("hping", "hping2", "hping3")
'''


[[rule.threat]]
framework = "MITRE ATT&CK"
[[rule.threat.technique]]
id = "T1082"
name = "System Information Discovery"
reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1082/"


[rule.threat.tactic]
id = "TA0007"
name = "Discovery"
reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0007/"