Tampering of Bash Command-Line History

Adversaries may attempt to clear or disable the Bash command-line history in an attempt to evade detection or forensic investigations.

Rule type: eql

Rule indices:

auditbeat-*
logs-endpoint.events.*

Severity: medium

Risk score: 47

Runs every: 5 minutes

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

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

Tags:

Elastic
Host
Linux
Threat Detection
Defense Evasion

Version: 6 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.9.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 7.12.0

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Rule query

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process where event.type in ("start", "process_started") and (
(process.args : ("rm", "echo") and process.args : (".bash_history",
"/root/.bash_history", "/home/*/.bash_history")) or (process.name :
"history" and process.args : "-c") or (process.args : "export" and
process.args : ("HISTFILE=/dev/null", "HISTFILESIZE=0")) or
(process.args : "unset" and process.args : "HISTFILE") or
(process.args : "set" and process.args : "history" and process.args :
"+o") )

Threat mapping

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Framework: MITRE ATT&CK^TM

Tactic:
- Name: Defense Evasion
- ID: TA0005
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0005/
Technique:
- Name: Indicator Removal on Host
- ID: T1070
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1070/

Rule version history

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Version 6 (7.12.0 release)

Rule name changed from: Deletion of Bash Command Line History

Updated query, changed from:

event.category:process AND event.type:(start or process_started) AND
process.name:rm AND
process.args:/\/(home\/.{1,255}|root)\/\.bash_history/

Version 5 (7.11.2 release)

Formatting only

Version 4 (7.11.0 release)

Formatting only

Version 3 (7.10.0 release)

Formatting only

Version 2 (7.9.1 release)

Formatting only

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