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Justin Ibarra 59da2da474 [Rule Tuning] Ensure host information is in endpoint rule queries (#2593)
* add unit tests to ensure host type and platform are included
* add host.os.name 'linux' to all linux rules
* add host.os.name macos to mac rules
* add host.os.name to windows rules; fix linux dates
* update from host.os.name to host.os.type

Co-authored-by: brokensound77 <brokensound77@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Jonhnathan <26856693+w0rk3r@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-03-05 11:41:19 -07:00

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[metadata]
creation_date = "2022/04/25"
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 attempts to create or modify a crontab via a process that is not crontab (i.e python, osascript, etc.). This
activity should not be highly prevalent and could indicate the use of cron as a persistence mechanism by a threat actor.
"""
from = "now-9m"
index = ["logs-endpoint.events.*"]
language = "eql"
license = "Elastic License v2"
name = "Suspicious CronTab Creation or Modification"
references = [
"https://taomm.org/PDFs/vol1/CH%200x02%20Persistence.pdf",
"https://theevilbit.github.io/beyond/beyond_0004/",
]
risk_score = 47
rule_id = "530178da-92ea-43ce-94c2-8877a826783d"
severity = "medium"
tags = ["Elastic", "Host", "macOS", "Threat Detection", "Persistence"]
timestamp_override = "event.ingested"
type = "eql"
query = '''
file where host.os.type == "macos" and event.type != "deletion" and process.name != null and
file.path : "/private/var/at/tabs/*" and not process.executable == "/usr/bin/crontab"
'''
[[rule.threat]]
framework = "MITRE ATT&CK"
[[rule.threat.technique]]
id = "T1053"
name = "Scheduled Task/Job"
reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1053/"
[[rule.threat.technique.subtechnique]]
id = "T1053.003"
name = "Cron"
reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1053/003/"
[rule.threat.tactic]
id = "TA0003"
name = "Persistence"
reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0003/"