Suspicious Reverse Shell Command Line


Description

Detects suspicious shell commands or program code that may be executed or used in command line to establish a reverse shell

Query · sigma

keywords:
- BEGIN {s = "/inet/tcp/0/
- bash -i >& /dev/tcp/
- bash -i >& /dev/udp/
- sh -i >$ /dev/udp/
- sh -i >$ /dev/tcp/
- '&& while read line 0<&5; do'
- /bin/bash -c exec 5<>/dev/tcp/
- /bin/bash -c exec 5<>/dev/udp/
- 'nc -e /bin/sh '
- /bin/sh | nc
- 'rm -f backpipe; mknod /tmp/backpipe p && nc '
- ;socket(S,PF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,getprotobyname("tcp"));if(connect(S,sockaddr_in($p,inet_aton($i))))
- ;STDIN->fdopen($c,r);$~->fdopen($c,w);system$_ while<>;
- /bin/sh -i <&3 >&3 2>&3
- uname -a; w; id; /bin/bash -i
- $sendbyte = ([text.encoding]::ASCII).GetBytes($sendback2); $stream.Write($sendbyte,0,$sendbyte.Length);
  $stream.Flush()};
- ;os.dup2(s.fileno(),0);os.dup2(s.fileno(),1);os.dup2(s.fileno(),2);os.putenv('HISTFILE','/dev/null');
- .to_i;exec sprintf("/bin/sh -i <&%d >&%d 2>&%d",f,f,f)
- ;while(cmd=c.gets);IO.popen(cmd,"r"){|io|c.print
- 'socat exec:''bash -li'',pty,stderr,setsid,sigint,sane tcp:'
- rm -f /tmp/p; mknod /tmp/p p &&
- ' | /bin/bash | telnet '
- ',echo=0,raw tcp-listen:'
- 'nc -lvvp '
- xterm -display 1
condition: keywords

Known false positives

  • Unknown
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title: Suspicious Reverse Shell Command Line
id: 738d9bcf-6999-4fdb-b4ac-3033037db8ab
status: test
description: Detects suspicious shell commands or program code that may be executed or used in command line to establish a reverse shell
references:
    - https://alamot.github.io/reverse_shells/
author: Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
date: 2019-04-02
modified: 2021-11-27
tags:
    - attack.execution
    - attack.t1059.004
logsource:
    product: linux
detection:
    keywords:
        - 'BEGIN {s = "/inet/tcp/0/'
        - 'bash -i >& /dev/tcp/'
        - 'bash -i >& /dev/udp/'
        - 'sh -i >$ /dev/udp/'
        - 'sh -i >$ /dev/tcp/'
        - '&& while read line 0<&5; do'
        - '/bin/bash -c exec 5<>/dev/tcp/'
        - '/bin/bash -c exec 5<>/dev/udp/'
        - 'nc -e /bin/sh '
        - '/bin/sh | nc'
        - 'rm -f backpipe; mknod /tmp/backpipe p && nc '
        - ';socket(S,PF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,getprotobyname("tcp"));if(connect(S,sockaddr_in($p,inet_aton($i))))'
        - ';STDIN->fdopen($c,r);$~->fdopen($c,w);system$_ while<>;'
        - '/bin/sh -i <&3 >&3 2>&3'
        - 'uname -a; w; id; /bin/bash -i'
        - '$sendbyte = ([text.encoding]::ASCII).GetBytes($sendback2); $stream.Write($sendbyte,0,$sendbyte.Length); $stream.Flush()};'
        - ';os.dup2(s.fileno(),0);os.dup2(s.fileno(),1);os.dup2(s.fileno(),2);os.putenv(''HISTFILE'',''/dev/null'');'
        - '.to_i;exec sprintf("/bin/sh -i <&%d >&%d 2>&%d",f,f,f)'
        - ';while(cmd=c.gets);IO.popen(cmd,"r"){|io|c.print'
        - 'socat exec:''bash -li'',pty,stderr,setsid,sigint,sane tcp:'
        - 'rm -f /tmp/p; mknod /tmp/p p &&'
        - ' | /bin/bash | telnet '
        - ',echo=0,raw tcp-listen:'
        - 'nc -lvvp '
        - 'xterm -display 1'
    condition: keywords
falsepositives:
    - Unknown
level: high

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