[metadata] creation_date = "2020/11/16" integration = ["endpoint"] maturity = "production" min_stack_comments = "New fields added: required_fields, related_integrations, setup" min_stack_version = "8.3.0" updated_date = "2023/02/22" [rule] author = ["Elastic"] description = """ Identifies a high number (20) of macOS SSH KeyGen process executions from the same host. An adversary may attempt a brute force attack to obtain unauthorized access to user accounts. """ from = "now-9m" index = ["auditbeat-*", "logs-endpoint.events.*"] language = "kuery" license = "Elastic License v2" name = "Potential macOS SSH Brute Force Detected" references = ["https://themittenmac.com/detecting-ssh-activity-via-process-monitoring/"] risk_score = 47 rule_id = "ace1e989-a541-44df-93a8-a8b0591b63c0" severity = "medium" tags = ["Elastic", "Host", "macOS", "Threat Detection", "Credential Access"] type = "threshold" query = ''' event.category:process and host.os.type:macos and event.type:start and process.name:"sshd-keygen-wrapper" and process.parent.name:launchd ''' [[rule.threat]] framework = "MITRE ATT&CK" [[rule.threat.technique]] id = "T1110" name = "Brute Force" reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1110/" [rule.threat.tactic] id = "TA0006" name = "Credential Access" reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0006/" [rule.threshold] field = ["host.id"] value = 20