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Suspicious Mining Process Creation Event

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Suspicious Mining Process Creation Event

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Identifies service creation events of common mining services, possibly indicating the infection of a system with a cryptominer.

Rule type: eql

Rule indices:

  • logs-endpoint.events.*
  • endgame-*

Severity: medium

Risk score: 47

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:

  • Domain: Endpoint
  • OS: Linux
  • Use Case: Threat Detection
  • Tactic: Execution
  • Data Source: Elastic Endgame
  • Data Source: Elastic Defend

Version: 3

Rule authors:

  • Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Rule query

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file where host.os.type == "linux" and event.type == "creation" and
event.action : ("creation", "file_create_event") and
file.name : ("aliyun.service", "moneroocean_miner.service", "c3pool_miner.service", "pnsd.service", "apache4.service", "pastebin.service", "xvf.service")

Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

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