Detecting attempts to extract passwords.

Description

Query · wazuh

field columns.cmdline="grep|cut|cat"

No license declared

socfortress/Wazuh-Rules publishes no license, and without an express grant the default is all rights reserved. The query above is synthesized from the rule rather than copied out of it, so you can see what the rule matches on; the rule as written stays upstream.

Read the full rule at Osquery/200200-osquery.xml ↗. Why this rule is treated this way.

Fires when

Wazuh evaluates a chain top-down. Every rule above this one must match on the same event before this rule is tested at all.

200223 osquery: process started. · name = bpf_process_events|es_process_events anchor level 3

decoded_as=json AND field name="bpf_process_events|es_process_events"
200260 Detecting attempts to extract passwords. anchor level 1 this rule

field columns.cmdline="grep|cut|cat"

Refined by

1 rule chains off this one, narrowing it further.

Detecting attempts to extract passwords with grep.

Rule dependencies

Depends on

composes · Wazuh if_sid 200223
- osquery: process started. · name = bpf_process_events|es_process_events

Detection tier

Not a detection

This rule makes no claim about adversary activity — it asserts configuration, suppresses an alert, or records a policy violation — so it sits at no rung of the pyramid.

Metadata

Source: socfortress/Wazuh-Rules
License: No license declared
Severity: Low
Status: Unknown
Query type: wazuh
Created: 2022-12-30
Modified: 2025-02-11
Authored by: socfortress
Source ID
Upstream: Osquery/200200-osquery.xml
Type: anchor
Data sources: json

ATT&CK

T1552