sigma-rules/rules/linux/discovery_linux_nping_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 = """
Nping ran on a Linux host. Nping is part of the Nmap tool suite and has the ability to construct raw packets for a wide
variety of security testing applications, including denial of service testing.
"""
false_positives = [
    """
    Some normal use of this command may originate from security engineers and network or server administrators, but this
    is usually not routine or unannounced. Use of `Nping` by non-engineers or ordinary users is uncommon.
    """,
]
from = "now-9m"
index = ["auditbeat-*", "logs-endpoint.events.*", "endgame-*"]
language = "eql"
license = "Elastic License v2"
name = "Nping Process Activity"
references = ["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nmap"]
risk_score = 47
rule_id = "0d69150b-96f8-467c-a86d-a67a3378ce77"
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 == "nping"
'''


[[rule.threat]]
framework = "MITRE ATT&CK"
[[rule.threat.technique]]
id = "T1046"
name = "Network Service Discovery"
reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1046/"


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