[metadata] creation_date = "2020/09/03" maturity = "production" updated_date = "2021/03/03" [rule] anomaly_threshold = 75 author = ["Elastic"] description = """ Looks for commands related to system user or owner discovery from an unusual user context. This can be due to uncommon troubleshooting activity or due to a compromised account. A compromised account may be used to engage in system owner or user discovery in order to identify currently active or primary users of a system. This may be a precursor to additional discovery, credential dumping or privilege elevation activity. """ false_positives = [ """ Uncommon user command activity can be due to an engineer logging onto a server instance in order to perform manual troubleshooting or reconfiguration. """, ] from = "now-45m" interval = "15m" license = "Elastic License v2" machine_learning_job_id = "linux_system_user_discovery" name = "Unusual Linux System Owner or User Discovery Activity" risk_score = 21 rule_id = "59756272-1998-4b8c-be14-e287035c4d10" severity = "low" tags = ["Elastic", "Host", "Linux", "Threat Detection", "ML"] type = "machine_learning" [[rule.threat]] framework = "MITRE ATT&CK" [[rule.threat.technique]] id = "T1033" name = "System Owner/User Discovery" reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1033/" [rule.threat.tactic] id = "TA0007" name = "Discovery" reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0007/"