Hping Process Activity
editHping Process Activity
editHping ran on a Linux host. Hping is a FOSS command-line packet analyzer and has the ability to construct network packets for a wide variety of network security testing applications, including scanning and firewall auditing.
Rule type: query
Rule indices:
- auditbeat-*
- logs-endpoint.events.*
Severity: high
Risk score: 73
Runs every: 5 minutes
Searches indices from: now-9m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time
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Maximum alerts per execution: 100
References:
Tags:
- Elastic
- Host
- Linux
- Threat Detection
- Discovery
Version: 100 (version history)
Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.6.0
Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 8.5.0
Rule authors: Elastic
Rule license: Elastic License v2
Potential false positives
editNormal use of hping is uncommon apart from security testing and research. Use by non-security engineers is very uncommon.
Rule query
editevent.category:process and event.type:(start or process_started) and process.name:(hping or hping2 or hping3)
Threat mapping
editFramework: MITRE ATT&CKTM
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Tactic:
- Name: Discovery
- ID: TA0007
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0007/
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Technique:
- Name: System Information Discovery
- ID: T1082
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1082/
Rule version history
edit- Version 100 (8.5.0 release)
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- Version 9 (8.4.0 release)
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- Version 8 (8.3.0 release)
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- Version 7 (7.12.0 release)
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- Version 6 (7.11.2 release)
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- Version 5 (7.10.0 release)
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- Version 4 (7.9.1 release)
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- Version 3 (7.9.0 release)
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Updated query, changed from:
process.name:(hping or hping2 or hping3) and event.action:executed
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- Version 2 (7.7.0 release)
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Updated query, changed from:
process.name: (hping3 or hping2 or hping) and event.action:executed
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