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Virtual Machine Fingerprinting

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Virtual Machine Fingerprinting

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An adversary may attempt to get detailed information about the operating system and hardware. This rule identifies common locations used to discover virtual machine hardware by a non-root user. This technique has been used by the Pupy RAT and other malware.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

auditbeat-*
logs-endpoint.events.*
endgame-*

Severity: high

Risk score: 73

Runs every: 5m

Searches indices from: now-9m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References: None

Tags:

Elastic
Host
Linux
Threat Detection
Discovery
Elastic Endgame

Version: 102

Rule authors:

Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Rule query

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event.category:process and event.type:(start or process_started) and
  process.args:("/sys/class/dmi/id/bios_version" or
                "/sys/class/dmi/id/product_name" or
                "/sys/class/dmi/id/chassis_vendor" or
                "/proc/scsi/scsi" or
                "/proc/ide/hd0/model") and
  not user.name:root

Framework: MITRE ATT&CK^TM

Tactic:
- Name: Discovery
- ID: TA0007
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0007/
Technique:
- Name: System Information Discovery
- ID: T1082
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1082/

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