sigma-rules/rules/linux/linux_nping_activity.toml

[metadata]
creation_date = "2020/02/18"
maturity = "production"
updated_date = "2021/03/03"

[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.*"]
language = "kuery"
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 = ["Elastic", "Host", "Linux", "Threat Detection"]
timestamp_override = "event.ingested"
type = "query"

query = '''
event.category:process and event.type:(start or process_started) and process.name:nping
'''