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Suspicious Child Process of SAP NetWeaver - Linux

Detects suspicious child processes spawned by SAP NetWeaver on Linux systems that could indicate potential exploitation of vulnerability that allows arbitrary execution via webshells such as CVE-2025-31324.

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Elastic Security, Swachchhanda Shrawan Poudel (Nextron Systems)Created Mon Apr 2869dea60b-2deb-4c9e-a685-ad542f4367f92025

Emerging Threat

Active Threat

Developed to detect an active or emerging threat. Prioritize investigation of any alerts and correlate with threat intelligence.

Log Source

LinuxProcess Creation

ProductLinux← raw: linux

CategoryProcess Creation← raw: process_creation

Events generated when a new process is spawned on the system. Covers command-line arguments, parent/child relationships, and process metadata.

Detection Logic

detection:
    selection_parent_img:
        ParentImage|contains:
            - '/j2ee/cluster/apps/sap.com/irj/servlet_jsp/irj/work'
            - '/j2ee/cluster/apps/sap.com/irj/servlet_jsp/irj/root'
    selection_current_dict:
        CurrentDirectory|contains:
            - '/j2ee/cluster/apps/sap.com/irj/servlet_jsp/irj/work'
            - '/j2ee/cluster/apps/sap.com/irj/servlet_jsp/irj/root'
    selection_child:
        Image|endswith:
            - '/ash'
            - '/bash'
            - '/csh'
            - '/dash'
            - '/ksh'
            - '/sh'
            - '/tcsh'
            - '/zsh'
            - '/python'
            - '/python2'
            - '/python3'
            - '/perl'
            - '/ruby'
            - '/curl'
            - '/wget'
            - '/nc'
            - '/netcat'
            - '/ncat'
            - '/socat'
            - '/nmap'
            - '/telnet'
            - '/awk'
            - '/sed'
    condition: (selection_parent_img or selection_current_dict) and selection_child