Privilege Escalation via Root Crontab File Modification

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Privilege Escalation via Root Crontab File Modification

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Identifies modifications to the root crontab file. Adversaries may overwrite this file to gain code execution with root privileges by exploiting privileged file write or move related vulnerabilities.

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)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

Tags:

  • Elastic
  • Host
  • macOS
  • Threat Detection
  • Privilege Escalation

Version: 2 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.12.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 8.4.0

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Rule query

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event.category:file and not event.type:deletion and
file.path:/private/var/at/tabs/root and not
process.executable:/usr/bin/crontab

Threat mapping

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Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

Rule version history

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Version 2 (8.4.0 release)
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