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Description

This analytic looks for process execution to disable the swapping of paging devices. This technique was seen in Awfulshred malware that disables the swapping of the specified devices and files. This anomaly detection can be a good indicator that a process or a user tries to disable this Linux feature in a targeted host.

  • Type: Anomaly
  • Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk Cloud
  • Datamodel: Endpoint
  • Last Updated: 2023-02-08
  • Author: Teoderick Contreras, Splunk
  • ID: c1eea697-99ed-44c2-9b70-d8935464c499

Annotations

ATT&CK

ATT&CK

ID Technique Tactic
T1200 Hardware Additions Initial Access
Kill Chain Phase
  • Exploitation
NIST
  • DE.CM
CIS20
  • CIS 3
  • CIS 5
  • CIS 16
CVE 


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| tstats `security_content_summariesonly` count min(_time) as firstTime max(_time) as lastTime from datamodel=Endpoint.Processes where Processes.process_name = "swapoff" by Processes.dest Processes.user Processes.parent_process_name Processes.process_name Processes.process Processes.process_id Processes.parent_process_id Processes.process_guid 
| `drop_dm_object_name(Processes)` 
| `security_content_ctime(firstTime)` 
| `linux_hardware_addition_swapoff_filter`

Macros

The SPL above uses the following Macros:

:information_source: linux_hardware_addition_swapoff_filter is a empty macro by default. It allows the user to filter out any results (false positives) without editing the SPL.

Required fields

List of fields required to use this analytic.

  • _time
  • Processes.dest
  • Processes.user
  • Processes.parent_process_name
  • Processes.process_name
  • Processes.process
  • Processes.process_id
  • Processes.parent_process_id

How To Implement

To successfully implement this search, you need to be ingesting logs with the process name, parent process, and command-line executions from your endpoints. If you are using Sysmon, you can use the Add-on for Linux Sysmon from Splunkbase.

Known False Positives

administrator may disable swapping of devices in a linux host. Filter is needed.

Associated Analytic Story

RBA

Risk Score Impact Confidence Message
36.0 60 60 a $process_name$ swap off paging device in $dest$

:information_source: The Risk Score is calculated by the following formula: Risk Score = (Impact * Confidence/100). Initial Confidence and Impact is set by the analytic author.

Reference

Test Dataset

Replay any dataset to Splunk Enterprise by using our replay.py tool or the UI. Alternatively you can replay a dataset into a Splunk Attack Range

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