-- Suspicious parenting of network utilities (event-based) -- -- refs: -- * https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1016/ (System Network Configuration Discovery) -- -- tags: transient process state often -- platform: linux -- interval: 300 SELECT -- Child pe.path AS p0_path, REGEX_MATCH (pe.path, '.*/(.*)', 1) AS p0_name, TRIM(pe.cmdline) AS p0_cmd, pe.cwd AS p0_cwd, pe.pid AS p0_pid, pe.time, p.cgroup_path AS p0_cgroup, -- Parent pe.parent AS p1_pid, p1.cgroup_path AS p1_cgroup, TRIM(COALESCE(p1.cmdline, pe1.cmdline)) AS p1_cmd, COALESCE(p1.path, pe1.path) AS p1_path, COALESCE(p_hash1.sha256, pe_hash1.sha256) AS p1_hash, REGEX_MATCH (COALESCE(p1.path, pe1.path), '.*/(.*)', 1) AS p1_name, -- Grandparent COALESCE(p1.parent, pe1.parent) AS p2_pid, COALESCE(p1_p2.cgroup_path, pe1_p2.cgroup_path) AS p2_cgroup, TRIM( COALESCE(p1_p2.cmdline, pe1_p2.cmdline, pe1_pe2.cmdline) ) AS p2_cmd, COALESCE(p1_p2.path, pe1_p2.path, pe1_pe2.path) AS p2_path, COALESCE( p1_p2_hash.path, pe1_p2_hash.path, pe1_pe2_hash.path ) AS p2_hash, REGEX_MATCH ( COALESCE(p1_p2.path, pe1_p2.path, pe1_pe2.path), '.*/(.*)', 1 ) AS p2_name FROM process_events pe, uptime LEFT JOIN processes p ON pe.pid = p.pid -- Parents (via two paths) LEFT JOIN processes p1 ON pe.parent = p1.pid LEFT JOIN hash p_hash1 ON p1.path = p_hash1.path LEFT JOIN process_events pe1 ON pe.parent = pe1.pid AND pe1.cmdline != '' LEFT JOIN hash pe_hash1 ON pe1.path = pe_hash1.path -- Grandparents (via 3 paths) LEFT JOIN processes p1_p2 ON p1.parent = p1_p2.pid -- Current grandparent via parent processes LEFT JOIN processes pe1_p2 ON pe1.parent = pe1_p2.pid -- Current grandparent via parent events LEFT JOIN process_events pe1_pe2 ON pe1.parent = pe1_p2.pid AND pe1_pe2.cmdline != '' -- Past grandparent via parent events LEFT JOIN hash p1_p2_hash ON p1_p2.path = p1_p2_hash.path LEFT JOIN hash pe1_p2_hash ON pe1_p2.path = pe1_p2_hash.path LEFT JOIN hash pe1_pe2_hash ON pe1_pe2.path = pe1_pe2_hash.path WHERE uptime.total_seconds > 30 AND pe.path IN ( '/usr/bin/ifconfig', '/usr/bin/ip', '/usr/bin/iptables', '/usr/bin/ufw', '/usr/bin/nft', '/bin/ifconfig', '/bin/ip', '/bin/iptables', '/bin/ufw', '/bin/nft', '/sbin/ifconfig', '/sbin/ip', '/sbin/iptables', '/sbin/ufw', '/sbin/nft' ) AND pe.cmdline != '' AND pe.time > (strftime('%s', 'now') -300) AND NOT ( pe.euid > 500 AND p1_name IN ('sh', 'fish', 'zsh', 'bash', 'dash', 'nu') AND p2_name IN ( 'alacritty', 'gnome-terminal-', 'kitty', 'login', 'roxterm', 'tmux', 'screen', 'gnome-terminal-server', 'newgrp', 'tmux:server', 'wezterm-gui', 'zsh' ) ) AND NOT p1_cmd IN ( '/opt/incus/bin/incusd --group incus-admin --logfile /var/log/incus/incusd.log', '/bin/sh /etc/network/if-up.d/avahi-autoipd', '/usr/bin/libvirtd --timeout 120' ) AND NOT p1_path IN ( '/usr/libexec/gvfsd', '/opt/incus/bin/incusd', '/usr/libexec/incus/incusd' ) AND NOT p0_cmd LIKE '%ip route add % dev % metric 1000 scope link' AND NOT p0_cmd LIKE '%ip link set lo netns -1' GROUP BY pe.pid