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Elastic Agent Service Terminated
Identifies the Elastic endpoint agent has stopped and is no longer running on the host. Adversaries may attempt to disable security monitoring tools in an attempt to evade detection or prevention capabilities during an intrusion. This may also indicate an issue with the agent itself and should be addressed to ensure defensive measures are back in a stable state.
Detection Logic
process where event.type == "start" and
(
/* net, sc or wmic stopping or deleting Elastic Agent on Windows */
(
process.name : ("net.exe", "sc.exe", "wmic.exe", "powershell.exe", "taskkill.exe", "PsKill.exe", "ProcessHacker.exe") and
process.args : ("stopservice", "uninstall", "stop", "disabled", "Stop-Process", "terminate", "suspend") and
process.args : ("elasticendpoint", "Elastic Agent", "elastic-agent", "elastic-endpoint")
) or
/* direct uninstallation of Elastic Agent or Elastic Endpoint on Windows */
(
host.os.type == "windows" and
process.name : ("elastic-agent.exe", "endpoint-security.exe", "elastic-endpoint.exe") and
process.args : "uninstall" and
/* exclude legitimate Elastic-managed reinstall, upgrade, and uninstall subprocesses */
not (
process.parent.code_signature.trusted == true and
process.parent.code_signature.subject_name == "Elasticsearch, Inc." and
(
(
process.name : "elastic-agent.exe" and process.args : "--force" and
process.parent.name : "elastic-agent.exe" and process.parent.args : "install" and
process.parent.args : ("--force", "-f")
) or
(
process.parent.name : "endpoint-security.exe" and
process.executable : "*\\components\\previous\\elastic-endpoint.exe" and
process.args : "--keepstate" and process.parent.args : "--upgrade"
) or
(
process.name : "endpoint-security.exe" and process.parent.name : "elastic-agent.exe" and
process.parent.args : "uninstall"
)
)
)
) or
/* service or systemctl used to stop Elastic Agent on Linux */
(
process.name in ("systemctl", "service", "chkconfig", "update-rc.d") and
process.args : ("elastic-agent", "elastic-agent.service", "ElasticEndpoint") and
process.args : ("stop", "disable", "remove", "off", "kill", "mask") and
not (
process.parent.executable : "/opt/Elastic/Agent/data/elastic-agent-*/components/previous/elastic-endpoint" and
process.parent.args : "uninstall" and
process.parent.args : "--keepstate"
)
) or
/* pkill, killall used to stop Elastic Agent or Endpoint on Linux */
(process.name in ("pkill", "killall", "kill") and process.args : ("elastic-agent", "elastic-endpoint")) or
/* Unload Elastic Defend extension on MacOS */
(process.name : "kextunload" and process.args : "com.apple.iokit.EndpointSecurity")
) Field Validations
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