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Nping Process Activity

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Nping Process Activity

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Nping ran on a Linux host. Nping is part of the Nmap tool suite and has the ability to construct raw packets for a wide variety of security testing applications, including denial of service testing.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

  • auditbeat-*

Severity: medium

Risk score: 47

Runs every: 5 minutes

Searches indices from: now-6m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum signals per execution: 100

References:

Tags:

  • Elastic
  • Linux

Version: 2 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.6.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 7.7.0

Potential false positives

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Some normal use of this command may originate from security engineers and network or server administrators, but this is usually not routine or unannounced. Use of Nping by non-engineers or ordinary users is uncommon.

Rule query

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process.name:nping and event.action:executed

Rule version history

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Version 2 (7.7.0 release)

Updated query, changed from: 

process.name: nping and event.action:executed
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