Detecting attempts to extract passwords with grep.

Description

Detecting attempts to extract passwords with grep.

Query · wazuh

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field columns.cmdline="password"

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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.

  1. 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"
  2. 200260 Detecting attempts to extract passwords. anchor level 1
    field columns.cmdline="grep|cut|cat"
  3. 200261 Detecting attempts to extract passwords with grep. refinement level 9 this rule
    field columns.cmdline="password"

Rule dependencies

Depends on

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