Process Killing Detected via Defend for Containers

process where event.type == "start" and event.action == "exec" and container.id like "*?" and 
(
  process.name in ("kill", "pkill", "killall") or
  (
    /* Account for tools that execute utilities as a subprocess, in this case the target utility name will appear as a process arg */
    process.name in ("bash", "dash", "sh", "tcsh", "csh", "zsh", "ksh", "fish", "busybox") and
    process.args in (
      "kill", "/bin/kill", "/usr/bin/kill", "/usr/local/bin/kill",
      "pkill", "/bin/pkill", "/usr/bin/pkill", "/usr/local/bin/pkill",
      "killall", "/bin/killall", "/usr/bin/killall", "/usr/local/bin/killall"
    ) and
    /* default exclusion list to not FP on default multi-process commands */
    not process.args in (
      "man", "/bin/man", "/usr/bin/man", "/usr/local/bin/man",
      "chmod", "/bin/chmod", "/usr/bin/chmod", "/usr/local/bin/chmod",
      "chown", "/bin/chown", "/usr/bin/chown", "/usr/local/bin/chown"
    )
  )
)

False Positives

• ⚠ There is a potential for false positives if the processes are killed for legitimate purposes, such as debugging or troubleshooting. It is important to investigate any alerts generated by this rule to determine if they are indicative of malicious activity or part of legitimate container activity.