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Unusual Child Execution via Web Server

This rule leverages the "new_terms" rule type to detect unusual child process executions originating from web server processes on Linux systems. Attackers may exploit web servers to maintain persistence on a compromised system, often resulting in atypical child process executions. As child process spawns from web server parent processes are common, the "new_terms" rule type approach helps identify deviations from normal behavior.

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Detection Logic

event.category:process and host.os.type:linux and event.type:start and event.action:exec and (
  process.parent.name:(
    apache2 or asterisk or caddy or daphne or flask or frankenphp or httpd or httpd.worker or
    lswsctrl or mongrel_rails or nginx or php-cgi or php-cgi.cagefs or php-fcgi or starman or
    sw-engine-fpm or uvicorn or uwsgi or varnishd or waitress-serve or zabbix_server or *.cgi
    or *.fcgi or gunicorn* or php-fpm* or lsphp*
  ) or
  process.parent.name:ruby* and process.parent.command_line:(*passenger* or *puma* or *rails*) or
  process.parent.name:python* and process.parent.command_line:(
    *app.py* or *asgi.py* or *django* or *flask* or *hypercorn* or *server.py* or *uvicorn* or *wsgi.py*
  ) or
  process.parent.name:perl* and process.parent.command_line:*plackup* or
  process.parent.name:java and process.parent.args:(
    com.atlassian.jira.startup.Launcher or com.caucho.server.resin.Resin or com.google.gerrit.pgm.Daemon or
    com.ibm.ws.kernel.boot.cmdline.Bootstrap or com.ibm.ws.runtime.WsServer or
    com.sun.enterprise.glassfish.bootstrap.ASMain or io.dropwizard.cli.ServerCommand or
    io.helidon.microprofile.server.Main or io.micronaut.runtime.Micronaut or io.quarkus.runner.GeneratedMain or
    io.vertx.core.Launcher or org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap or org.eclipse.jetty.start.Main or
    org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch or org.jboss.modules.Main or play.core.server.ProdServerStart or
    weblogic.Server or *-Dsolr.solr.home=* or *BitbucketServerLauncher* or *jenkins.war* or *quarkus-run.jar* or
    *weblogic-launcher.jar* or -Dcatalina.base=* or -Djboss.home.dir=* or -Djetty.home=* or -Dweblogic.Name=* or
    io.helidon.webserver* or org.apereo.cas* or org.keycloak* or org.springframework.boot.loader.*
  )
) and
process.executable:* and process.command_line:* and
not (
  process.name:(
    arp or aws or az or base16 or base32 or base64 or base64mime or base64pem or base64plain or base64url or
    basenc or basez or bash or busybox or cat or chmod or chpasswd or cp or crictl or csh or ctr or curl or dash or
    df or dig or docker or du or fish or gcloud or helm or host or htop or ifconfig or ip or ksh or kubectl or ln or
    lsblk or lsof or ltrace or mkdir or mksh or mv or nc or nc.openbsd or nc.traditional or ncat or netcat or ngrok or
    nmap or nslookup or openssl or passwd or rm or sh or socat or ss or strace or sudo or tcpdump or tcsh or telnet or
    top or touch or traceroute or wget or whoami or xxd or zsh or *.bin or *.elf or *.jar or *.lua* or *.mjs or
    *.js or *.php* or *.pl or *.py or *.rb or *.sh or .*
  ) or
  process.executable:(
    ./* or /boot/* or /dev/shm/* or /home/*/* or /lost+found/* or /proc/* or /root/* or /run/* or /sys/* or /tmp/* or
    /var/mail/* or /var/run/* or /var/tmp/* or /var/www/* or "/usr/bin/ffprobe" or "/usr/bin/ffmpeg"
  ) or
  process.parent.name:java and not process.parent.executable:/u0*/* or
  process.working_directory:(/u0*/*/sysman/emd or /u0*/app/oracle/product/*/db_* or /u0*/app/oracle/product/*/dbhome_* or /var/www/*edoc*) or
  process.args:(/usr/bin/rsvg-convert* or /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf*) or
  process.command_line:*/opt/sc/bin/showvulns*
)

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