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Egress Network Connection by MOTD Child

This rule detects network connections to external IP's immediatly after the process execution of a file within the message of the day (MOTD) configuration directory. This could be indicative of a persistence mechanism being established on the system.

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Detection Logic

sequence with maxspan=3s
  [process where event.type == "start" and event.action == "exec" and process.parent.executable like "/etc/update-motd.d/*"
   and not (
     (process.name in ("wget", "curl") and process.args == "https://motd.ubuntu.com") or
     process.executable in (
       "/usr/bin/landscape-sysinfo", "/usr/bin/yum", "/usr/bin/cloud-id", "/usr/bin/timeout",
       "/usr/lib/ubuntu-release-upgrader/release-upgrade-motd"
     ) or
     process.executable : "/etc/update-motd.d/*"
   )
  ] by process.entity_id
  [network where event.type == "start" and event.action == "connection_attempted" and not (
     destination.ip == null or destination.ip == "0.0.0.0" or cidrmatch(
     destination.ip, "10.0.0.0/8", "127.0.0.0/8", "169.254.0.0/16", "172.16.0.0/12", "192.0.0.0/24", "192.0.0.0/29",
     "192.0.0.8/32", "192.0.0.9/32", "192.0.0.10/32", "192.0.0.170/32", "192.0.0.171/32", "192.0.2.0/24",
     "192.31.196.0/24", "192.52.193.0/24", "192.168.0.0/16", "192.88.99.0/24", "224.0.0.0/4", "100.64.0.0/10",
     "192.175.48.0/24","198.18.0.0/15", "198.51.100.0/24", "203.0.113.0/24", "240.0.0.0/4", "::1", "FE80::/10",
     "FF00::/8", "172.31.0.0/16"
     )
    )
  ] by process.parent.entity_id

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