linux_apt_get_privilege_escalation.yml

name: Linux apt-get Privilege Escalation
id: d870ce3b-e796-402f-b2af-cab4da1223f2
version: 1
date: '2022-08-11'
author: Gowthamaraj Rajendran, Splunk
status: production
type: Anomaly
description: The apt-get is a command line tool for interacting with the Advanced
  Package Tool (APT) library (a package management system for Linux distributions).
  It allows you to search for, install, manage, update, and remove software. The tool
  does not build software from the source code. If sudo right is given to the tool
  for user, then the user can run system commands as root and possibly get a root
  shell.
data_source:
- Sysmon for Linux EventID 1
search: '| tstats `security_content_summariesonly` count min(_time) as firstTime max(_time)
  as lastTime from datamodel=Endpoint.Processes where Processes.process="*apt-get*"
  AND Processes.process="*APT::Update::Pre-Invoke::*" AND Processes.process="*sudo*"
  by Processes.dest Processes.user Processes.parent_process_name Processes.process_name
  Processes.process Processes.process_id Processes.parent_process_id Processes.process_guid
  | `drop_dm_object_name(Processes)` | `security_content_ctime(firstTime)` | `security_content_ctime(lastTime)`
  | `linux_apt_get_privilege_escalation_filter`'
how_to_implement: The detection is based on data that originates from Endpoint Detection
  and Response (EDR) agents. These agents are designed to provide security-related
  telemetry from the endpoints where the agent is installed. To implement this search,
  you must ingest logs that contain the process GUID, process name, and parent process.
  Additionally, you must ingest complete command-line executions. These logs must
  be processed using the appropriate Splunk Technology Add-ons that are specific to
  the EDR product. The logs must also be mapped to the `Processes` node of the `Endpoint`
  data model. Use the Splunk Common Information Model (CIM) to normalize the field
  names and speed up the data modeling process.
known_false_positives: False positives may be present, filter as needed.
references:
- https://gtfobins.github.io/gtfobins/apt-get/
- https://phoenixnap.com/kb/how-to-use-apt-get-commands
tags:
  analytic_story:
  - Linux Privilege Escalation
  - Linux Living Off The Land
  asset_type: Endpoint
  confidence: 50
  impact: 20
  message: An instance of $parent_process_name$ spawning $process_name$ was identified
    on endpoint $dest$
  mitre_attack_id:
  - T1548.003
  - T1548
  observable:
  - name: dest
    type: Hostname
    role:
    - Victim
  - name: parent_process_name
    type: Process
    role:
    - Parent Process
  - name: process_name
    type: Process
    role:
    - Child Process
  product:
  - Splunk Enterprise
  - Splunk Enterprise Security
  - Splunk Cloud
  required_fields:
  - _time
  - Processes.dest
  - Processes.user
  - Processes.parent_process_name
  - Processes.process_name
  - Processes.process
  - Processes.process_id
  - Processes.parent_process_id
  risk_score: 10
  security_domain: endpoint
tests:
- name: True Positive Test
  attack_data:
  - data: https://media.githubusercontent.com/media/splunk/attack_data/master/datasets/attack_techniques/T1548/apt_get/sysmon_linux.log
    source: Syslog:Linux-Sysmon/Operational
    sourcetype: sysmon_linux
    update_timestamp: true