Elastic medium stable eql
File Downloaded by Curl/Wget and Piped to Interpreter
This rule detects when a file is downloaded by curl or wget, and piped to an interpreter. Attackers may use this technique to download and execute payloads for various malicious purposes, such as establishing persistence or exfiltrating data.
Detection Logic
sequence by host.id, process.parent.entity_id, process.working_directory with maxspan=1s
[process where host.os.type == "linux" and event.type == "start" and event.action == "exec" and process.name in ("curl", "wget") and
(
/* IP address and path */
process.command_line regex ".*[0-9]{1,3}\\.[0-9]{1,3}\\.[0-9]{1,3}\\.[0-9]{1,3}(:[0-9]{1,5})?\\/[^ ]+.*" or
/* URL and path */
process.command_line regex ".*[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9\\-]*(\\.[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9\\-]*)+(:[0-9]{1,5})?\\/[^ ]+.*"
) and
process.args_count <= 3 and (
process.parent.name in ("bash", "dash", "sh", "tcsh", "csh", "zsh", "ksh", "fish", "busybox", "node", "deno", "ash", "mksh", "pwsh") or
process.parent.name like (".*", "python*", "perl*", "ruby*", "lua*", "php*") or
process.parent.executable like (
"/tmp/*", "/var/tmp/*", "/dev/shm/*", "./*", "/run/*", "/var/run/*", "/boot/*", "/sys/*", "/lost+found/*",
"/proc/*", "/var/mail/*", "/var/www/*", "/dev/fd/*", "?memfd:*", "memfd:*"
)
) and
not (
process.args in ("-h", "--help", "-V", "--version", "--output", "-O") or
process.args like ("--output*", "-o*", "--remote-name*") or
process.command_line like ("*127.0.0.1*", "*localhost*", "*artifacts.elastic.co*", "*ela.st*", "*elastic.co*")
)]
[process where host.os.type == "linux" and event.type == "end" and event.action == "end" and
process.name like (
"bash", "dash", "sh", "tcsh", "csh", "zsh", "ksh", "fish",
"python*", "perl*", "ruby*", "lua*", "php*", "node"
) and process.args_count == 1 and
process.args like (
"-bash", "-dash", "-sh", "-tcsh", "-csh", "-zsh", "-ksh", "-fish", "-ash", "-mksh", "-pwsh",
"bash", "dash", "sh", "tcsh", "csh", "zsh", "ksh", "fish", "ash", "mksh", "pwsh",
"/bin/bash", "/bin/dash", "/bin/sh", "/bin/tcsh",
"/bin/zsh", "/bin/ksh", "/bin/fish",
"/bin/csh", "/bin/ash", "/bin/mksh", "/bin/pwsh",
"/usr/bin/bash", "/usr/bin/dash", "/usr/bin/sh", "/usr/bin/tcsh",
"/usr/bin/csh", "/usr/bin/zsh", "/usr/bin/ksh", "/usr/bin/fish",
"/usr/bin/ash", "/usr/bin/mksh", "/usr/bin/pwsh",
"/usr/local/bin/bash", "/usr/local/bin/dash", "/usr/local/bin/sh", "/usr/local/bin/tcsh",
"/usr/local/bin/csh", "/usr/local/bin/zsh", "/usr/local/bin/ksh", "/usr/local/bin/fish",
"/usr/local/bin/ash", "/usr/local/bin/mksh", "/usr/local/bin/pwsh",
"python*", "/bin/python*", "/usr/bin/python*", "/usr/local/bin/python*",
"perl*", "/bin/perl*", "/usr/bin/perl*", "/usr/local/bin/perl*",
"ruby*", "/bin/ruby*", "/usr/bin/ruby*", "/usr/local/bin/ruby*",
"lua*", "/bin/lua*", "/usr/bin/lua*", "/usr/local/bin/lua*",
"php*", "/bin/php*", "/usr/bin/php*", "/usr/local/bin/php*",
"node", "/bin/node", "/usr/bin/node", "/usr/local/bin/node",
"/dev/fd/*", "?memfd:*", "memfd:*"
)
] Field Validations
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