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Potential Suspicious Clipboard Activity Detected

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Potential Suspicious Clipboard Activity Detected

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This rule monitors for the usage of the most common clipboard utilities on unix systems by an uncommon process group leader. Adversaries may collect data stored in the clipboard from users copying information within or between applications.

Rule type: new_terms

Rule indices:

  • logs-endpoint.events.*

Severity: low

Risk score: 21

Runs every: 60m

Searches indices from: now-119m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References: None

Tags:

  • Domain: Endpoint
  • OS: Linux
  • Use Case: Threat Detection
  • Tactic: Collection
  • Rule Type: BBR
  • Data Source: Elastic Defend

Version: 2

Rule authors:

  • Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Rule query

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event.category:process and host.os.type:"linux" and event.action:"exec" and event.type:"start" and
process.name:("xclip" or "xsel" or "wl-clipboard" or "clipman" or "copyq")

Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

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